Project profile — Empowerment of Women for Climate Action in Honduras

• Honduras (100.00%)

• Government And Civil Society, General: Women's rights organisations and movements, and government institutions (15170) (15.00%)
• Business And Other Services: Business support services and institutions (25010) (15.00%)
• Forestry policy and administrative management:
Forestry policy and administrative management (31210) (25.00%)
Forestry development (31220) (25.00%)
• Biosphere protection:
Biosphere protection (41020) (10.00%)
Bio-diversity (41030) (10.00%)

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

The project aims to improve the quality of life of rural and indigenous women and youth whose livelihoods depend on forest resources in 12 municipalities of Western Honduras. It seeks to improve the governance for the conservation and sustainable management of the forest and its associated biodiversity, led by rural and indigenous women and youth. The project also seeks to increase the economic empowerment of these women and youth by helping them to use forest resources and biodiversity in alignment with municipal climate change and development plans. Project activities are expected to benefit 60 women’s and youth organizations and 2,000 families. Project activities include: (1) building local governments’ capacities to increase women’s participation and leadership in natural resources management, environment and climate change decision-making bodies; (2) providing technical assistance in the establishment of municipal economic development strategies related to natural resource management and climate change; (3) providing technical assistance to women’s organizations in developing community supportive services (i.e. child day-care centers) and providing training on gender equality legislation, natural resources management and climate change; (4) providing technical assistance to entrepreneurial women in improved conservation and sustainable use of forest resources, and in entrepreneurial management skills; (5) promoting short agroforestry value chains for local urban markets and highly specialized markets and services; and (6) promoting the adoption of innovative and time-and effort-saving technologies by entrepreneurial women.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved governance in the management of forest resources, by targeted municipalities, with increased participation of rural and Indigenous women and youth; and (2) increased economic empowerment of 2,000 rural and Indigenous women and youth organized in Forest Farm Producer Organizations in line with municipal climate change plans.

Results achieved as of December 2022: (1) Municipal Development Plans and Municipal Investment Plans of 12 participating municipalities were assessed to help guide the updating of their plans to address gender equality, natural resources management, climate change and women and youth economic empowerment; (2) 59 Forest and Farm Producer Organizations (FFPO) have developed their business plans; (3) 863 beneficiaries (533 women) were trained in Market Analysis and Development to prepare business plans for their economic and productive initiatives; (4) 24 forest nurseries were established to restore and reforest 58 hectares of degraded land; and (5) 5,362 tons of CO2 (tCO2) absorbed using climate-smart technologies and agricultural best practices and 32,414 tCO2 will be potentially absorbed as a result of reforestation activities.

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