Results achieved as of the end of the project (October 2023) include : (1) 3,500 people, nearly 80% of whom were women, were reached in the retail, handicraft, sewing, cooking and small-scale farming sectors in the departments of Cortez, Francisco Morazan, Atlantida and Yoro; (2) 5 initiatives or bills were carried out with the aim of increasing social coverage for women in the informal sector. These included 1 draft bill on women’s safety at work, 1 draft bill targeting the social security of workers in the informal economy sector, 1 regulation on parity and rotation in the political participation of women and men in electoral processes, and 1 draft bill on work for self employed workers (informal sector); (3) 2,942 people received training in entrepreneurship (84% women); (4) 38 labour federation organizations increased their capacity to support economic empowerment initiatives; (5) nearly 2,500 women and girls from the informal economy, among others, increased their skills and knowledge in entrepreneurship and leadership through union training; (6) 34 women’s entrepreneurship initiatives, among others, were launched through the signing of agreements with the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the ministry of education of Honduras, the vocational training institute, the national services for entrepreneurship and small business, the secretary of agriculture and livestock and Honduras’ secretariat for women’s affairs. This includes providing assistance to 302 families in the form of technological vouchers for agriculture (fertilizers) and implementing a literacy program for women in the informal sector; (7) 2,400 women participated in training, advocacy and awareness-raising activities on the issue of violence against women; (8) created and set up the comprehensive support centre for women in the informal sector; (9) 769 women and girls received free medical, psychosocial and legal support services from the comprehensive support centre for women in the informal sector; (10) 33 collective actions (public conferences, demonstrations, advocacy actions, awareness campaigns) were carried out on the issue of violence against women; (11) mechanisms for reporting individual and collective violence were established, enabling 33 communities to file complaints with local authorities; and (12) 912 government representatives, 80% of whom were women, participated in project activities.
