Honduras
Peacebuilding Fund in Action?
缅北禁地Secretary-General first declared Honduras eligible to access the Peacebuilding Fund in 2020. During the first two years of this eligibility period, the PBF was instrumental in promoting citizens’ participation and promoting the credibility of the National electoral institutions, which resulted in the democratically elected Government of President Xiomara Castro who took office in January 2022. The Fund has invested in various areas, including strengthening the rule of law, reducing violence, preventing and peacefully managing conflicts, enhancing effective and efficient public administration, and strengthening inclusive participation and civil society. Gender equality and women’s empowerment?in peacebuilding processes have neem key priorities, alongside addressing risks linked to forced displacement and supporting reintegration efforts to strengthen social cohesion. The Fund has invested over $19 million in ten projects. For the current eligibility period (2020-2025), the PBF Strategic Results Framework establishes three priority peacebuilding results:
- By 2025, Honduran society’s confidence in institutions and mechanisms for a comprehensive approach to conflict has increased, incorporating human rights, gender equality, and youth approaches.
- By 2025, the Honduran State and society will have increased levels of citizen participation in peacebuilding and the full exercise of human rights, especially for women, youth, and other underrepresented population groups.
- By 2025, Honduran citizens will have greater confidence in a more accessible, independent, inclusive, and effective justice system, contributing to the consolidation of the rule of law.
Peacebuilding Fund Impact
- Strengthening of the legal framework to address environmental and land-related conflicts.
- Strengthening of the justice system for the management of conflicts related to environmental protection and land disputes.
- Establishment of dialogue and conflict resolution spaces at the national and local levels, promoting the inclusion and meaningful participation of women, youth, indigenous populations, Afro-descendants and the LGBTI community.
- Promotion of a safer environment for human rights and environmental defenders.
- Strengthening of institutions, actors, and community leaders in implementing laws, policies, and protocols, including specific measures to prevent conflicts, resolve latent disputes, and address gender-based violence.
- Strengthening of women’s networks, youth networks, and associations of indigenous and Afro-Honduran peoples.
- Strengthening the systemic response to violence against children and adolescents, from prevention to the restitution of rights, adapting and/or creating specialized prevention and care models.
- Capacity building and awareness-raising campaigns on the rights of children and adolescents, forced displacement, gender-based violence, political advocacy and planning.
