WFP Honduras In Numbers

Country Brief
October 2022
USD 1.7 million cash-based transfers

USD 61.2 million six-months (November

2022 – April 2023) net funding
requirements, representing 84 percent of
total

114,203 people assisted 53% 47%

in October 2022
©WFP Photo / COPECO and WFP personnel loading boats to cross the river
and transfer food rations to isolated communities in San Pedro Zacapa,
Santa Barbara, due to heavy rains and the passage of tropical storm Julia. Operational Updates

Operational Context • In response to increased needs, WFP

scaled up its response and began providing
Honduras has a population of almost 10 million,
life-saving assistance to the most impacted
with a gross domestic product per capita of USD communities following Tropical Storm Julia.
2,574.9 (2019). It has one of the most unequal WFP provided commodity vouchers to
distributions of income and resources in the world. 12,585 households in Cortes, Copan,
More than half of the population lives below the Atlantida, Yoro, Santa Barbara, Choluteca,
poverty line and is exposed to violence and crime. Gracias a Dios, Comayagua and
The country is characterized by inequitable access Ocotepeque.
to land, insufficient food production, high
unemployment and exposure to natural disasters. • To improve the productivity and quality of
Food insecurity and malnutrition have worsened milk, WFP, jointly with its partner
because of droughts in the southern and western Pespirense Development Association,
regions of the country, known as the Dry Corridor trained 20 women cattle farmers in
Choluteca on animal health and welfare,
and in the rest of the country because of the
disease control, external and internal
effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the
parasites, deworming, the application of
hurricanes Eta and Iota. vaccines, serum, vitamins and calcium.
These sessions aim at strengthening
WFP's primary objectives in Honduras are to reduce
technical capabilities to link the women
food insecurity and malnutrition and increase
farmers to the market as suppliers of the
human development by improving the health,
Pespire Milk Collection Centre (CREL, for its
nutrition and education levels of children and other Spanish acronym) and to the National
vulnerable groups through a gender and protection School Feeding Programme. CREL was
focus. The WFP Country Strategic Plan proposes a established as part of the ‘Proyecto Leche’,
significant shift in WFP's support to the a three-year initiative launched by WFP in
Government to attain Zero Hunger by 2030. 2017 to support smallholder producers in
Pespire, San Isidro, San José and San
WFP has been present in Honduras since 1970. Antonio de Flores -all municipalities located
in the northern cone of Choluteca.

• WFP conducted 17 capacity strengthening

sessions in which participated 141 medical
personnel and 128 community leaders,
mothers, fathers, pregnant women and
caregivers of children. The sessions
focused on nutrition, basic concepts of
healthy eating, prevention of malnutrition
in children under 5 and pregnant women
and nutrition during the first 1,000 days.
2019 Human Development Index: 132
Population: 9.9 million
out of 189 • As part of its resilience programme, WFP
provided food assistance to 11,800 food-
Chronic malnutrition: 23% of children insecure households in Francisco Morazan,
Income Level: Lower middle
aged 6-59 months
Valle and La Paz.

Contact info: Janeth Rodríguez ([email protected])

Country Director: Stephanie Hochstetter
Further information: www.wfp.org/countries/honduras
WFP Country Strategy

Country Strategic Plan (2018-2022) • Under a conditional food assistance pilot

Allocated programme, WFP provided commodity and value
Six Month Net Funding
Total Requirement Contributions (in
Requirements (in USD) vouchers to deliver food assistance to 533
USD)
beneficiaries who participated in nutrition-related
304.6 million 158.1 million 61.2 million
trainings in two towns of La Paz: Santiago de
Strategic Result 1: Everyone has access to food Puringla and Santa Ana.
Strategic Result 2: No one suffers from malnutrition

Strategic Outcome 1: Preschool and primary school-aged children

across the country have access to safe and nutritious food year- Monitoring
round by 2021
Focus area: Root Causes
• In October 2022, WFP presented to the mayors
Activities: of 39 municipalities a study on the impact of the
• Provide daily nutritious school meals, sourced from smallholder
farmers to preschool and primary school-aged children, COVID-19 pandemic on the nutritional status
complemented with health, hygiene and nutrition activities, and food security of children under 5, pregnant
gender-transformative education and school gardens.
and lactating women and girls together with the
• Provide capacity strengthening to local authorities, school
staff, parents and smallholder farmers, including technical National Institute of Statistics, the Spanish
assistance and training in the management of the school meals Agency for International Development
programme.
Cooperation, the Technical Unit for Food Security
Strategic Result 2: No one suffers from malnutrition and the Secretariat of Health. The information
Strategic Outcome 2: The most nutritionally vulnerable groups in presented constitutes a tool for the Government
targeted areas have reduced levels of stunting and micronutrient and the humanitarian sector to strengthen the
deficiencies by 2021. design and evaluation of the programmes aimed
Focus area: Root Causes
at improving families' food security and nutrition.
Activities:
• Provide capacity strengthening to health institutions at all
levels and fortified nutritious foods in targeted areas to girls, Challenges
pregnant women and lactating women and girls, and children
under 2.
• Increased support is needed to provide life-
Strategic Result 3: Smallholder productivity and incomes saving assistance to the most vulnerable
populations. To implement its emergency
Strategic Outcome 3: Rural agricultural labourers and smallholder
farmers in targeted areas, especially in indigenous communities, are response and preparedness activities, WFP faces
more resilient to shocks and stressors, contributing to their food and a funding gap of USD 31.7 million over the next
nutrition security throughout the year. 6 months (November 2022 to April 2023) to
Focus area: Resilience Building
respond to the crisis and promote early
Activities: recovery.
• Provide food assistance for assets to food-insecure households
to support the creation and rehabilitation of livelihood assets
complemented by capacity strengthening for decentralized
government authorities in the management of resilience Donors
building and climate change adaptation programmes.

Strategic Result 1: Everyone has access to food Canada, European Union, France, Germany,
Government of Honduras, Government of Japan,
Strategic Outcome 4: Targeted households affected by rapid- and United States of America, Switzerland, and private
slow-onset disasters have access to food year-round.
Focus area: Crisis Response donors.

Activities:
• Complement government transfers to the most vulnerable
households affected by disasters to facilitate relief and early
recovery while supporting strengthened institutional
emergency response capacities.

Strategic Result 5: Countries strengthened capacities

Strategic Outcome 5: Government authorities and partner

organizations at the national and subnational levels, complemented
by strategic alliances, have strengthened capacity to achieve the
SDGs, particularly SDG 2, by 2021.
Focus area: Resilience Building

Activities:
• Provide technical assistance and capacity strengthening in
emergency preparedness and response, including linkages to
social protection, to institutions at the national and subnational
level.
• Support an advocacy platform and communicate strategically
about the 2030 Agenda, with an emphasis on SDG 2, to the
general public, the private sector and partners.

WFP Honduras Country Brief

October 2022