Honduras - Summary of Remaining Humanitarian Needs and Sector Recommendations (January 2026)

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This document is a Summary of the document that the Humanitarian Forum created to reprioritize the 2025 HNRP into an analysis of areas and pockets with the most urgent remaining needs. The transition is not a reflection of a decrease in vulnerability, but rather a strategic realignment, focusing on humanitarian action from 118 municipalities to 33 in 2026

The document includes a summarized analysis of humanitarian shocks, priority geographical areas, sector priorities, outlook and risk projection for 2026.

1. Context & methodology

In 2026, Honduras will continue to face humanitarian shocks brought about by chronic violence, extreme climatic shocks, and complex migration patterns. This comes amid a highly restrictive global financing environment, with the 2025 Humanitarian Response Plan (HNRP) facing a 90 per cent funding gap, having received only $14.4 million of the required budget. Under the leadership of the Resident Coordinator and with technical assistance from OCHA, the national Humanitarian Forum is transitioning toward a humanitarian framework characterized by significantly more limited human and financial resources.

The Humanitarian Forum reprioritized the 2025 HNRP into document that reflects the pockets and areas with the most urgent remaining humanitarian needs This methodology re-prioritizes humanitarian action from 118 municipalities in 2025 to 33 specific municipalities in 2026.

The criteria used to prioritize municipalities in 2026 include those that had a severity 3 in the 2025 Joint Intersectoral Analysis Framework (JIAF), areas with moderate to high pressure on basic services with institutions unable to meet sector needs, areas with five or more sectors carrying out activities, areas with low levels of existing assistance relative to identified needs and municipalities that are facing two or more of the shocks.