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Update appStore/info.py

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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ def app():
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  st.markdown(f"<style>{f.read()}</style>", unsafe_allow_html=True)
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  st.markdown("<h2 style='text-align: center; \
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- color: black;'> Policy Action Tracker Manual</h2>",
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  unsafe_allow_html=True)
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  with c3:
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  st.markdown('<div style="text-align: justify;">The manual extraction \
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  of relevant information from text documents is a \
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- time-consuming task for any policy analysts. As the amount and length of \
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  public policy documents in relation to sustainable development (such as \
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  National Development Plans and Nationally Determined Contributions) \
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  continuously increases, a major challenge for policy action tracking – the \
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  For this purpose, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions \
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  Network (SDSN) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale \
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- Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH are collaborating since 2021 in the development \
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- of an AI-powered open-source web application that helps find and extract \
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  relevant information from public policy documents faster to facilitate \
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  evidence-based decision-making processes in sustainable development and beyond.
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- The collaboration aims to determine the potential of NLP methods for \
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- tracking policy implementation and coherence in the context of the \
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- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement. \
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- Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) will serve as a starting \
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- point for the analysis and evaluation in a specific national context. \
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- Under the Paris Climate Agreement, NDCs embody the efforts of each \
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- country to reduce national emissions and thus contribute to the \
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- achievement of the long-term goals of the Agreement to increase the \
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- ability to adapt to adverse impacts of climate change and foster \
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- climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a \
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- manner that does not threaten food production. The Paris Climate \
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- Agreement (Article 4, Paragraph 2)1 requires each Party to prepare, \
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- communicate and maintain successive NDCs. Thus, they serve as a \
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- comparable, accessible, and widely acknowledged starting point for \
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- analysis. However, the agreed and communicated goals and measures must \
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- also be reflected in national strategies, statements, and other \
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- government publications to be implemented timely, as well as effectively.\
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- At best, the activities and measures should have an allocated budget. \
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- Given the complexity, the manual evaluation of policy documents and \
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- other publications has been very time-consuming and has presented a \
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- significant challenge for policy analysts and makers alike. In \
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- consequence, the open-source web application aims to support the process\
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- through suitable AI-powered and NLP methods. In the following, the \
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- application’s functionalities are explained in more detail.
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  </div>
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  <br>
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  """
 
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  st.markdown(f"<style>{f.read()}</style>", unsafe_allow_html=True)
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  st.markdown("<h2 style='text-align: center; \
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+ color: black;'> Policy Action Tracker</h2>",
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  unsafe_allow_html=True)
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  with c3:
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  st.markdown('<div style="text-align: justify;">The manual extraction \
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  of relevant information from text documents is a \
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+ time-consuming task for any policy analyst. As the amount and length of \
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  public policy documents in relation to sustainable development (such as \
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  National Development Plans and Nationally Determined Contributions) \
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  continuously increases, a major challenge for policy action tracking – the \
 
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  For this purpose, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions \
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  Network (SDSN) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale \
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+ Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH are collaborated in the development \
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+ of this AI-powered open-source web application that helps find and extract \
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  relevant information from public policy documents faster to facilitate \
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  evidence-based decision-making processes in sustainable development and beyond.
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+ This tool allows policy analysts and other users the possibility to rapidly \
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+ search for relevant information/paragraphs in the document according to the \
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+ user’s interest, classify the document’s content according to the Sustainable \
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+ Development Goals (SDGs), and compare climate-related policy documents and NDCs \
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+ across countries using open data from the German Institute of Development and \
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+ Sustainability’s (IDOS) NDC Explorer.
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+ To understand the application's functionalities and learn more about ß
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+ the project, see the attached concept note. We hope you like our application 😊
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+
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+
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  </div>
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  <br>
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  """