[{"bbox": [81, 146, 1167, 1490], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td></td><td>worsening market conditions discourage investments in clean and low carbon technologies</td><td></td><td>Organize information sessions and awareness raising events to provide information and share knowledge so that stakeholders understand the requirements, benefits and challenges associated with the transition to circular economy. Demonstration of successful business cases and hand-on technical assistance to build mutual trust and incentivise businesses to move to circular economy. Work with financiers to provide accessible financing scheme to support investments, and collaborate with the government to advocate for a more supportive policy framework for green financing.</td></tr><tr><td>2- planning, processes and systems</td><td>Coordination among stakeholders and approval of matters related to the Action are insufficient and lead to delays.</td><td>Medium</td><td>Medium</td><td>Engage with political leadership, since the identification phase, to secure political support. Maintain regular policy dialogues and project Steering Committee meetings to ensure effective strategic oversight of the Action. Maintain effective collaboration and communication at the technical level to ensure common understanding and timely action on bottlenecks emerged.</td></tr><tr><td>3- legality and regularity aspects</td><td>Barriers for circular economy are not timely removed to enable implementation of RCE initiatives</td><td>Medium</td><td>Medium</td><td>Engage with political leadership, since the identification phase, to secure political support. Maintain regular policy dialogues (including Steering Committee meetings) to ensure effective strategic oversight of the Action. Align the Action and its workplan with the government's priorities and working agenda to ensure ownership and buy-ins. The Action includes activities to identify bottlenecks and build capacity of public authorities so that they would improve regulations and business environment for the uptake of circular economy initiatives.</td></tr><tr><td>4- communication and information</td><td>Lack of access to data and information necessary to deliver the Action</td><td>Medium</td><td>High</td><td>Ensure effective communication among key stakeholders and build trust in the partnerships since the beginning, notably through provision of quality advice and technical input. Demonstrate the benefits of successful business cases and the opportunity cost forgone due to the lack of data and information (and coordination), therefore incentivise stakeholders to share data and information.</td></tr><tr><td>5 - Socio-cultural</td><td>Limited commitment to gender equality and women's empowerment, HRBA and PwD by the targeted institutions and non-state actors.</td><td>Medium</td><td>Medium</td><td>The project will provide sufficient means to work with institutions and non-state actors on the importance of mainstreaming Gender Equality, HRBA and rights of PwD.</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [92, 1492, 253, 1515], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Lessons Learnt:"}, {"bbox": [92, 1518, 1161, 1651], "category": "Text", "text": "Earlier interventions on EIPs (supported by SECO and UNIDO) demonstrated good business cases for further scaling up. An important lesson is that initial awareness raising and creating successful cases at the earlier stage is essential. Once the early adopters show results, then all the neighbouring companies would join and benefit from the Action. There are resource efficient, cleaner production initiatives that can easily be implemented at low or no cost with high returns on investments. Simple and no investment cost options should be implemented immediately and this will also"}, {"bbox": [1022, 1677, 1142, 1702], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 15 of 24"}]