Outcome HND_D_4.1

The Honduran State implements policies, strategies and programs that allows strengthen the sustainability and resilience of their development.

During the reporting period, progress at the outcome level focused on strengthening institutional and organisational capacities to integrate gender-responsive and intersectional approaches into natural resource governance, climate-related risk management and humanitarian response frameworks in Honduras. While large-scale policy reform remains limited, evidence indicates concrete shifts in institutional practices, coordination mechanisms and internal governance arrangements among key actors. Through the PBF-funded MUCAMPAZ initiative, UN Women provided specialised technical assistance and normative guidance to institutional counterparts and agroforestry governance actors to advance the integration of gender equality considerations into decision-making spaces related to forest management, water governance, conflict prevention and environmental risk management. This support contributed to improved institutional readiness to apply gender analysis tools and intersectional risk assessments in territorial planning and resource governance processes. In particular, UN Women supported the application of gender and intersectional risk assessments with actors such as the Forest Conservation Institute (ICF), the Honduran Federation of Agroforestry Cooperatives (FEHCAFOR), and affiliated cooperatives. These processes enabled stakeholders to better identify differentiated vulnerabilities linked to gender, territory, livelihoods and climate exposure. Technical inputs included analysis of women’s economic, political and social empowerment; methodologies to identify women-led livelihoods affected by climate stressors; and time-use and labour burden assessments among women cooperative members. These tools informed micro-watershed governance processes, forest protection measures and local environmental management mechanisms. As a result, governance practices within the agroforestry system demonstrate measurable outcome-level changes. Women’s participation in decision-making spaces has become more structured and formalised, including through the establishment and activation of gender-focused mechanisms within cooperatives and at federation level. These mechanisms are beginning to influence internal rules, leadership pathways and representation in inter-institutional platforms related to land, water and forest governance. In MUCAMPAZ-prioritised areas, strengthened prevention mechanisms and improved coordination among community actors contributed to enhanced preparedness for forest fire risks. No forest fires were reported in these territories in 2025, according to project monitoring data (UN Women, 2025). While this result cannot be attributed solely to the intervention, it reflects improved local readiness and preventive capacity within strengthened governance and risk management structures. In parallel, through the Trayectos programme, UN Women strengthened institutional capacities within humanitarian and protection systems to integrate gender-responsive standards in contexts of human mobility. This included reinforcing referral pathways, training security and humanitarian actors on gender-responsive protection, and supporting the development and inter-institutional discussion of a National Protocol for the specific care of migrant women in temporary shelters. These efforts contributed to improved institutional coordination and greater clarity in the application of survivor-centred standards in emergency contexts. At the outcome level, relevant actors in environmental governance and humanitarian response demonstrate increased capacity to apply gender analysis, consider differentiated risks, and integrate women’s leadership into planning and response processes. Although most reforms remain at pilot or early institutionalisation stage, these changes represent measurable improvements in organisational practices and system-level readiness to implement gender-responsive approaches to sustainability, resilience and risk management. Continued consolidation will depend on sustained institutional commitment, formal adoption of pending frameworks and allocation of resources beyond the reporting period. Sources: (2025) Informe CAF Villa Santa Final. Documento interno, Honduras. (2025) Informe CHABOSUJI Final. Documento interno, Honduras. (2025). Diagnóstico Empoderamiento Mujer. Honduras. UN Women, FAO & Ayuda en Acción (2025) Empleo Tiempo Esfuerzo de Mujeres Socias v2. Honduras. UN Women (2025) Informe Final de Progreso CONAMUCOOP-H. Honduras. UN Women. 2025. MUCAMPAZ Progress Report (Peacebuilding Fund). Internal report. Tegucigalpa. UN Women. 2025a. Trayectos – Women in Human Mobility in Central America: Honduras Results 2025. Internal report. Tegucigalpa.

The Honduran State implements policies, strategies and programs that allows strengthen the sustainability and resilience of their development.

The Honduran government has started promoting the creation of Gender Offices in different State Ministries. In the area of emergency and humanitarian attention, for the first time in the country's history, the leading body responsible for the organization and prompt response to emergencies, Permanent Contingency Commission (, COPECO, with the rank of Ministry) has created a Directorate of Gender, among whose functions are: Promote, manage, accompany the creation and review of public policies on gender and emergencies, humanitarian crisis situations in Honduras. To promote the creation of regulations, protocols for the inclusion of gender in emergencies and humanitarian situations in the corresponding institutions in the State of Honduras Promote equal workspaces, free for all humanitarian personnel of the Honduran government. Represent COPECO before the Humanitarian Network of Honduras and accompany the implementation of gender implementation measures in humanitarian action in the country. To promote the review of data collection instruments, damage assessment and needs analysis, risk analysis, impact analysis with a gender approach in emergency situations and humanitarian crises. Contribute to the creation of an inclusive humanitarian community in terms of gender equality and sexual diversity from the Human Rights and gender perspective. Promote inter-institutional capacity building processes on gender, inclusion and emergencies for National Risk Management System (SINAGER), COPECO and all instances involved in emergency care in Honduras. Review regulations to achieve international standards in inclusion, gender in emergency care and humanitarian crises. To promote the review and development of action protocols for inclusion and a gender approach in the face of different expressions of emergencies and humanitarian crises (fires, floods, droughts, famines, etc.), To encourage ongoing processes of institutional specialization within the framework of SINAGER for inclusion and a gender approach in humanitarian care and preparation, care, and reconstruction. To encourage the dialogue with civil society organizations at local/municipal, regional and national levels for inclusion, the gender approach in humanitarian care and emergency response. The process of creating this directorate and its proposed functions was strongly accompanied and assisted by UN Women. Likewise, we offered technical assistance to both COPECO and the National Migration Institute, which have included in 2022 the creation and distribution of emergency kits differentiated by gender, for the first time in history, to care for women in emergency situations. COPECO specifically requested help from UN Women to define the contents and criteria for preparing its differentiated kits. In terms of capacity building and behavioral changes, COPECO and the National Human Rights Commissioner (CONADEH) have also included training processes, directed to their staff, on gender in emergencies, data disaggregation, inclusion of disabled people (with an emphasis on women), masculinities and violence, which were provided by UN Women. In collaboration with GENCAP and other agencies, UN Women has contributed to the creation of the gender humanitarian action guide and the Roadmap for Gender Inclusion in Humanitarian Action in Honduras. Both documents guide and contribute to sustainability and deepening of gender inclusion actions in humanitarian action in the country, as well as build on the progress already achieved. Evidence: https://tnh.gob.hn/nacional/inicia-operaciones-la-direccion-de-genero-en-copeco/

The Honduran State implements policies, strategies and programs that allows strengthen the sustainability and resilience of their development.

The Honduran government in the last years, being a new government, promoted initiatives to strengthen its institutions, especially in the gender perspective. In this scenario, the Ministry of Women Affairs was created in this new government period, a Ministry created to rectorate public policy in favour of women, girls and gender in order to advance to gender equalty and justice in the country. Other initiatives included the creation of Gender Units in every state Ministry and insitution, to lead the integration of gender perspective in all government action; however, 2023 demonstrated there are still challenges in the functionnig of this structures, both financially and technically, providing UN Women an opportunity to begin dialogue with the Ministry of Women Affairs to articulate actions that will take advantage of this initiative and strengthen the gender offices.

The Honduran State implements policies, strategies and programs that allows strengthen the sustainability and resilience of their development.

The Honduran government in the last years has promoted initiatives to strengthen its institutions, including the gender perspective. However, despite the creation of the Ministry of Women Affairs , some coordination issues have been encountered by the Ministry with other government institutions. Gender Units in every state Ministry and insitution continue to operate to lead the integration of gender perspective in all government action; challenges continue in the functionnig of this structures, both financially and technically, UN Women continues dialogue with the Ministry of Women Affairs to articulate actions that will take advantage of this initiative and strengthen the gender offices.