Project profile — Sectoral Support Fund - Honduras

• Honduras (100.00%)

• Education, Level Unspecified: Education policy and administrative management (11110) (33.00%)
• Health, General: Health policy and administrative management (12110) (33.00%)
• Agriculture: Agricultural development (31120) (34.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

The Sectoral Support Fund (SSF) is a responsive mechanism used to advance Canada’s development priorities in Honduras and engage with key partners through local calls for proposals. This project provides strategic and flexible support to key partners, through targeted technical assistance, the development and dissemination of case studies, regional lesson-learning events, and skill development and training for government and civil society personnel. The 2016-2017 call focused on human rights and strong partnership between the state and civil society. Selected initiatives contribute to the reduction of violence against women, children and youth, strengthening of local level actors in the prevention of violence, and promoting non-discriminatory media coverage in Honduras. Partners: Public institutions, civil society

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) : strengthened government-donor-civil society coordination systems within GAC areas of programming; (2) significant integration of civil society in coordination activities in GAC’s priorities sectors (3) increased country leadership and ownership in areas of GAC programming; and (4) progress on aid alignment and harmonization in GAC’s sector of focus in the region.

Results achieved, for the 2016-2017 call for proposals, as of December 2016 include: (1) improved the knowledge of 490 community actors working in education, health, justice and human rights regarding child protection and the prevention of youth violence; (2) improved the management and quality of the process of abandonment declarations for children, reducing backlog of cases of child abandonment for more than 50 children; (3) strengthened professional capacities of the National Women’s Institute, 40 coordinators of municipal women’s offices and external journalists to promote women’s human rights with emphasis in the political participation of women; (4) trained more than 100 university students and journalists in international standards for ethical journalism with gender perspective.

• Proactive disclosure
• Related activities:
• Sectoral Support Fund - Guatemala
• Sectoral Support Fund - Nicaragua