Honduras Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2025 - Summary

1.6M PEOPLE IN NEED

0.8M PEOPLE TARGETED

$138.5M REQUIREMENTS (US$)

Despite significant achievements and progress during 2024, Honduras continues to face a complex humanitarian situation, with high levels of poverty, inequality and violence, as well as the vulnerability to climatic events and environmental hazards.
Challenges remain to ensure that affected and vulnerable communities have equal access to and benefit from their human rights.

Humanitarian Needs

Although national homicide rates have declined, Honduras remains one of Latin America's most violent countries, with the highest rates in Central America. Violence manifests in various forms, including gender-based violence (GBV), forced displacement, extortion, recruitment of children, and property destruction. These threats necessitate intersectoral responses to enhance prevention, protection, and assistance mechanisms tailored to the risks faced by affected populations.

Mixed movements significantly impact border communities and refugees and migrants transiting Honduras. Between January and November 2024, over 357,796 people of more than 100 nationalities entered the country, many requiring urgent support in shelter, health care, water, sanitation, and protection services for children and vulnerable individuals. The mixed movements have overwhelmed local resources, requiring supplementary humanitarian aid.

Climate-related disasters further exacerbate the situation. Honduras is highly vulnerable to storms, floods, and prolonged droughts, particularly in the Dry Corridor, where erratic rainfall affects food production. In 2024, Tropical Storm Sara impacted over 251,000 people, adding to a worsening food crisis, especially in the northern part of the country.

Response Plan for 2025

The 2025 response strategy prioritizes 118 municipalities affected by climate events, the influx of people in mixed migration flows, and the humanitarian impacts of violence. This targeted approach focuses on providing lifesaving, intersectoral humanitarian assistance while addressing protection, age, gender, and diversity considerations to maximize impact and minimize fragmentation.

This plan included key interventions in Food Security - focused on the Dry Corridor and Gracias a Dios (La Mosquitia), where food insecurity is severe due to climate-induced crop failures; assistance in municipalities like Santa Bárbara, Cortés, Atlántida, and Yoro, which face dual challenges of violence and flooding; and mixed movements and displacement – with support in entry, transit, and exit points such as Trojes, Danlí, El Paraíso, Ocotepeque, and Santa Fé, which bear the highest burden.

The plan emphasizes collaboration with national authorities to ensure efficient use of resources, humanitarian access, and protection for vulnerable populations. It seeks to strengthen operational environments that support and safeguard humanitarian actions.