[{"bbox": [93, 153, 1163, 233], "category": "Text", "text": "motivate and create confidence for the company to deploy projects with higher investment costs. For technology upgrades and investments, it is necessary to inform companies on available green financing schemes and preferential loans and support them to access these funds."}, {"bbox": [93, 233, 1163, 339], "category": "Text", "text": "The EIP experience also shows that there is often a lack of available data at company, park, provincial, and national level. Data on the quantities and qualities of resources (e.g. raw materials, wastes, and by-products, energy, and water) is needed before being able to assess the potential for industrial symbiosis in an IP. Collecting these basic data can be a time-consuming process. Therefore, strengthening resource monitoring at all levels should be a priority."}, {"bbox": [93, 339, 1136, 471], "category": "Text", "text": "More generally speaking, experience shows that it is important to align the Action workplan with the workplan of the government to secure political buy-in and ownership. Many bottlenecks that are blocking implementation of RCE initiatives in the targeted sector go beyond the mandate of the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), therefore it is crucial to engage relevant ministries and public agencies in the implementation of the Action so that they can work together to remove the barriers."}, {"bbox": [93, 471, 1163, 709], "category": "Text", "text": "Also, the private sector plays the central role in the transition toward circular economy and they can move fast once they understand the costs and benefits of the transition. Therefore, working with the private sector is inevitable. By building capacity, providing hands-on support to define bankable circular economy projects and supporting access to technologies and finance of economic actors in the industrial sector, it would help to improve resource efficiency and decarbonisation of production at a larger scale and provide good cases for further scaling up. The EU and its MS are leading efforts on green transition and many policies adopted by the EU have already impacted or will have impacts on the Vietnamese export sector and other local producers that are participating in the related value chains. Working with the local private sector, which has strong linkages with the EU market, would be a win-win solution, contributing to green transition process of both sides."}, {"bbox": [93, 710, 1163, 869], "category": "Text", "text": "On responsible business conducts, experiences from the Better Work programme suggest that Sustained improvements in working conditions within firms are supported by a mix of strong technical interventions that combine capacity development and accountability with the motivation of positive incentives related to trade, as well as to access to global supply chains. Interventions that support women's empowerment, by addressing the underlying root causes of discrimination and inequality at all levels, and promoting gender equality and effective social dialogue, are the processes that drive lasting improvements within firms and encourage overall inclusive growth."}, {"bbox": [93, 869, 1163, 1028], "category": "Text", "text": "Further experience shows that innovation and digitalization can be a game-changer in circular economy and therefore should be supported. Nonetheless, this should be done with due consideration of the corresponding investment in infrastructure, facilities and equipment, and human resources by both the public and the private sector. As a lesson learned, competence of the contractors/implementing partners is the key success factor of the Action, which in turn demonstrate the quality and credibility of the EU technical cooperation. Therefore it is important that the contractors/implementing partners are selected on the basis of their technical capacity to deliver the Action."}, {"bbox": [174, 1043, 486, 1074], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.5 The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [97, 1089, 1163, 1222], "category": "Text", "text": "The underlying intervention logic for this action is that IF the policy and regulatory framework is improved to support the uptake of responsible, circular economy (RCE) practices (outcome 1) and IF feasible RCE projects are identified and implemented by businesses in the industrial sector (outcome 2), THEN it will help to improve economic, social and environmental performance of the industrial sector and contribute to the development of a climate-neutral, responsible and circular economy in Viet Nam (impact)."}, {"bbox": [97, 1233, 1163, 1341], "category": "Text", "text": "IF the policy bottlenecks preventing effective implementation of RCE projects in the industrial sector are identified and informed to regulators (output 1.1) and IF the capacity of relevant public bodies (as duty bearers) are strengthened (output 1.2), THEN they will improve policies and regulations to create a more enabling environment for the implementation of RCE projects in the industrial sector (outcome 1)."}, {"bbox": [97, 1352, 1163, 1619], "category": "Text", "text": "IF assessments using evidence based analytical work are conducted, including on those emerged during the actual implementation of RCE projects at business level, and IF discussions and dialogues are supported, THEN policy bottlenecks hindering the development of RCE will be identified. IF public agencies are provided with relevant peer experiences and good international and national practices; in-depth discussions among relevant stakeholders and public-private dialogues are facilitated and technical advices on regulatory framework are provided to the public authorities, THEN they will have a better understanding of RCE, bottlenecks and implementation issues faced by businesses and practitioners, and would advocate for more enabling regulations and business environment. The intervention logic is based on the assumption that the government remains committed to green growth, sustainable and inclusive development and there will be concerted efforts and coordination across ministries and public agencies to remove multiple challenges that are blocking the implementation of circular economy practices."}, {"bbox": [1023, 1678, 1143, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 16 of 24"}]