IOM will support the basic needs of affected communities and displaced persons, with a focus on marginalized groups such as elderly people, women and girls, and people with a disability, in at least one emergency in Honduras through:

• Distribution of multi-purpose cash assistance in coordination with social protection agencies and partners.

IOM will support the government in the coordination and management of their emergency shelters (collective centres) for displaced populations in at least one emergency in Honduras through the deployment of an emergency Shelter/CCCM coordination team (coordinator, information manager, CCCM technical advisor) to support coordinated interventions among all stakeholders, contribute to coordinated and inclusive needs assessments and strengthen the capacity of emergency shelter managers. Activities will include:

• Supporting via mobile teams the centre managers on the coordination and management of collective centres or camps.
• Providing basic equipment for collective centres, such as stoves for cooking, chairs, tables, fans, washing machines, and garbage cans, among others.

IOM will provide protection assistance to affected populations focusing on displaced persons, vulnerable migrants, returnees, and migrants in transit, in all phases of displacement by:

• Providing child protection/gender-based violence case management through implementing partners and mobilization of assistance on routes of protection services, prevention of gender-based violence, and basic services for vulnerable individuals and groups to ensure they have meaningful access to available services and accountability and referral mechanisms. IOM will especially advocate for the provision of durable solutions for populations of interest such as referral to livelihoods, and relocalization support.
• Mainstreaming protection principles across all interventions (shelter, mental health, and psychosocial support (MHPSS) and CBI) to ensure safety and dignity, avoiding causing harm and guaranteeing meaningful access to assistance for all persons in need, without discrimination. This will be accomplished through capacity building at the national and local levels, strategic guidance, awareness raising, coordination, and partnerships
• Providing technical guidance to other IOM sectors, IOM’s implementing partners, and governments to integrate GBV activities such as dignity kits, psychosocial support, and case management. 
• Promoting PSEA by ensuring that all IOM partners and staff are duly trained on the key concepts of PSEA, how to report incidents, responsibilities, obligations, and the victim-centered approach.
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IOM will provide life-saving WASH assistance to affected communities and displaced persons in at least one emergency and support WASH preparedness in relevant municipalities in Honduras through:

• Transporting and distributing pre-positioned differentiated hygiene kits desegregated by sex and age. The hygiene kits will consist of toilet paper, deodorant, bath soap, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, drink pot, antibacterial hand gel, sanitary towels (in the hygiene kit for women and girls), and transparent back packaging. This will be combined with hygiene promotion to ensure proper use of hygiene kits and provide access to appropriate hygiene practices such as handwashing with soap and safe disposal of feces to reduce the spread of many diseases
• Prepositioning hygiene kits including menstrual hygiene management kits for at least 15,000 households, storing this humanitarian aid in IOM's warehouse in Panama. 

IOM will provide life-saving shelter and non-food item assistance to affected communities and displaced persons in at least one emergency in Honduras through:

• Improving infrastructure (including basic equipment such as stoves, refrigerators, washing machines) and living conditions for IDPs, migrants in transit and returnees in shelters (collective centres), contributing to the risk reduction of gender-based violence. 
• Strengthening the relevant regional and national shelter and CCCM coordination structure in collaboration with COPECO and other partners by deploying (Emergency) Shelter Sector Specialists to monitor stakeholder activities, coordinate assessments, set standards, and active coordination of activities and development of durable solutions in an early stage.
• Transporting and distributing pre-positioned emergency shelter NFIs including emergency shelter kits, solar lamps, and kitchen sets and other items previously coordinated in their composition with the CCCM cluster from the IOM warehouses in Panama to displaced and affected households in collaboration with partners.
• Continuing to carry out GBV risk mitigation activities established in the GBV guidelines by developing a methodology of Trainers of trainers (Tot) on handling a GBV disclosure safely and ethically and promoting the participation of women and girls throughout the design, implementation, and monitoring processes of shelter-related activities. This will be implemented at national level to replicate at local ones.
• In partnership with international and local NGOs, supporting community/owner-driven house repairs for displaced households through a combination of technical assistance, awareness-raising/training on safe construction, provision and distribution of construction materials, labour and/or conditional cash support for reconstruction.

To ensure mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in humanitarian response, IOM will: 

• Provide community-based MHPSS (including psychoeducation, psychological first counseling, and socio-relational cultural and play-based psychosocial activities) for most vulnerable groups and communities, and referrals to specialized life-saving mental healthcare for specific cases. This activity will be implemented through an implementing partner and mobile teams, in line with IOM's institutional approach for emergencies and IOM Manual on Community-Based MHPSS in Emergencies and Displacement, and IASC MHPSS Guidelines.

Under Humanitarian Border Management (HBM), IOM will: 

• Develop HBM governmental capacity and support the update or development of standard operating procedures, especially for the southern and western borders of Honduras.
• Build capacity of border guards on key elements of rights-based border management;management, ensuring border security and obligations to national sovereignty while protecting the human rights of international migrants with a focus on those transiting Honduras from the south to west border. 

IOM will:

• Support the Government in hiring three primary care doctors (outsourcing) to provide assistance to the migrant population in transit by the southeastern and western borders. These personnel will also support health promotion, disease prevention, detection of migrants with emergencies or notifiable diseases with referrals to secondary care centres, health data registration and sharing with the corresponding government authorities (INM and SESAL, among others).

IOM will: 

• Strengthen the cooperation of governmental and non-governmental organizations to develop a Crisis Plan with a focus on the health of migrants in transit. 
• Support with pre-positioning items, including medical supplies for people with disabilities or other vulnerable situations (including wheelchairs and crutches) and key logistic sources such as ambulances.

Through CCCM interventions in Honduras, IOM will plan to:

• Strengthen the preparedness of selected (vulnerable) municipalities through profiling the emergency shelter capacity and upgrading at least 45 collective centres/emergency shelters, developing community evacuation plans, emergency response training of communities and improving access to data.
• Support COPECO and the UN system with all aspects of migration in emergencies, including the development of policies and protocols around planned relocations, mass evacuations, and emergency shelters, contributing to the development of regional and subregional UN contingency plans with the focus on shelter, CCCM, WASH, and protection.
• Play an active role in coordination platforms such as REDLAC and the Humanitarian Country Team during emergencies.
• Coordinate with COPECO and local governments to review and assess areas with high flood risks to monitoring, and an early warning system and modelling for risk reduction.

From the lesson learned and experience of 2024, in 2025, IOM’s initiatives will include: 

• Providing trainings on DRR, in line with MICIC Guidelines and other internationally recognized standards, to crisis-affected communities as part of CCCM and evacuation, shelter response and recovery programmes, mainstreaming protection principles and durable solutions. 
• Supporting the drafting, review and update of local policies on disaster risk reduction and management and local climate change adaptation plans and strengthening the implementation capacities of local actors through the provision of training, equipment and tools. 
• Conducting research and actions related to climate change adaptation (CCA) and contributing to the generation of relevant science-based evidence and utilization of local knowledge to inform the government’s policies and programmes, and multi-sectoral programmes (i.e. food security-WASH-climate change, DTM-community stabilization) with other development partners including UN agencies and CSO partners. 
• Conducting advocacy work for policies and research related to CCA linked to migration in Honduras. 
• Conducting consultations with communities vulnerable to climate risk to develop community action plans that identify localized climate adaptation strategies and providing technical assistance to implement these plans. 
• Supporting at-risk communities and individuals to mainstream climate-smart, green livelihood strategies, including through the set-up of community-based climate risk monitoring and early warning systems. 

Based on the constant and high impact of natural hazards that affect the country every year, as well as the complex mixed population flows, there is a need to fill the current information gap. Therefore, it is fundamental to strengthen the capacities of Honduran institutions to collect, process, analyze and share data on displaced populations  due to environmental degradation and the increasing impacts of climate change and mixed population flows. According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, in 2021, 247,000 were internally displaced (IDMC GRID 2022). Additionally, it is important to generate information on the link between internal displacement and forced migration, since one preludes the other in some cases. DTM activities will include this key area.

IOM will strengthen DTM activities around two main outcomes: 

• Building the capacity of government institutions such as COPECO, INM, and other relevant stakeholders to collect, process, and analyze timely information on displaced populations affected by natural disasters, as well as mixed population flows.
• Developing mechanisms to share timely data collected using DTM methodologies such as the multi-sectoral location assessment (MSLA) and multi-sectoral needs assessment (MSNA) on displaced populations with humanitarian actors, considering APP and data protection principles, to better prepare for and respond to emergencies related to disasters.
• Additionally, using secondary data such as official administrative data, migration flows will be analyzed focusing on migrants in transit and returnees.

Key stakeholders including UN agencies, the Humanitarian Country Team, NGOs, other government institutions, donors and international cooperation, and IOM internal programmes will benefit from the data sharing for emergency response plans, resource allocation for humanitarian assistance, development of project proposals, etc.

In 2025, IOM Honduras will:

• Provide technical, coordination and planning support to the Honduras Government on reconstruction, reparation, housing, land and property rights, planned relocations, and land planning, to pave the path, both politically and socially, for providing durable solutions for displaced households or households at risk.