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:

• Preparedness activities: training, preposition of non-food items (NFI), mapping of collective centres, contingency plans, among others.
• Supporting the centre managers via mobile teams on the coordination and management of collective centres or camps, including multisectoral assessments of the sites through DTM, delivery of humanitarian assistance, and trainings on CCCM and the Sphere Handbook. 
• 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 in different areas to affected populations focusing on displaced persons, migrants in vulnerable situations, returnees, and migrants in transit, in all phases of displacement by:

Child protection

• Providing child protection assistance, including basic services (i.e., case management, psychological support, shelter and safe spaces, legal assistance, rehabilitation and reintegration –educational support, vocational training)
• Development of initiatives and recreational activities engaging communities to protect children, raising awareness about child protection issues, and creating local networks of support to vulnerable children.
• Campaigns to raise awareness with the purpose of educating communities, children and families about child rights, protection issues, how to prevent abuse, neglect and exploitation.
• Establishment of a system to monitor children’s safety and well-being and ensuring mechanisms are in place for reporting suspected abuse or exploitation (i.e., helplines to report abuse or seek help in times of crisis).

GBV protection

• Provision of GBV case management through implementing partners, and mobilization of assistance along protection service routes, as well as GBV risk mitigation.  
• Development and update of information on referral mechanisms involving service providers to ensure survivors of GBV are connected to all services available and ensuring comprehensive care and support.
• Providing technical guidance to other IOM sectors, IOM’s implementing partners, and government to mainstream gender and integrate GBV activities, such as dignity kits, psychosocial support, and case management. 
• Enabling communication channels that will allow confidential and clear access to immediate support, counseling, referral services for survivors of GBV and its specific services (i.e., health support, legal advice, psychological support).
• Supporting access to safe spaces, shelters and temporary housing for survivors of GBV at risk of further violence. 
• Development of local programmes to raise awareness about GBV, with the purpose of informing the public and changing societal attitudes towards GBV (i.e., local campaigns, educational materials, workshops, trainings, conferences).
• Provision of support to survivors through community networks. 

General protection

• Ensure actions for a safe, dignified and human rights-based return , according to the UNNM checklist for safe and dignified return and sustainable reintegration 
• Provision of sustainable reintegration services to returnees.
• Building and updating a referral system to provide appropriate response mechanisms, such as protocols, child protection services, procedures for victims of trafficking, assistance for women and girls at risk, and assisted voluntary return programmes.
• Development of accessible and inclusive communication materials accessible in different languages to better inform the target population on how to obtain specialized services. 
• Characterization of profiles to identify IDPs and environmental migrants that would benefit from protection services.
• Conducting awareness campaigns with key messages on trafficking and PSEA.
• Training staff to improve the identification process of profiles susceptible to trafficking.
• Implementation of early detection protocols for profiles vulnerable to trafficking.

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. 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 reducing the risk 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 sector from the IOM warehouses in Panama to displaced and affected households in collaboration with partners.
• Continuing to carry out GBV risk mitigation activities  in accordance with the GBV guidelines, mainly in shelters and communities, through GBV risk and safety audits to elaborate planning with CCCM and GBV stakeholders, among others, on measures and strategies to mitigate GBV risks.
• 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 (including in transit settings), IOM will focus on: 

• Provision of community-based MHPSS (including psychoeducation, psychological first aid (PFA), counselling and socio-relational, cultural and sports, creative and art-based activities) for most vulnerable groups and communities, and referrals to specialized life-saving mental healthcare for persons with severe mental health problems. 
  • These activities will be implemented through an implementing partner which is deploying a psychosocial mobile team (PMT), in line with IOM's institutional approach for emergencies and IOM Manual on Community-Based MHPSS in Emergencies and Displacement, and IASC MHPSS Guidelines. 
• Provision of capacity strengthening to PMTs and other stakeholders and supervision in line with IOM’s MHPSS framework.

Contributing to a better local and central government response and with a humane and a rights-based approach at southern and western borders that receive international migrants, IOM will focus on:

• Strengthening of HBM governmental capacity and support the update or development of standard operating procedures.
• Strengthening of capacity of border guards on key elements of rights-based border 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 southern to western border.
   

To improve the health and well-being of migrants in transit by providing essential medical care, IOM will focus on:   

• Support to 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 centers, health data registration and sharing with the corresponding government authorities (INM and SESAL, among others).
• Strengthening 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.

IOM will enhance municipal preparedness, support vulnerable communities, support COPECO and local governments in disaster risk management and early recovery through: 

• Strengthening 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.
• Supporting COPECO and the UN system with migration in emergencies, developing policies and protocols for relocations, evacuations, and shelters, and contributing to regional and subregional UN contingency plans in shelter, CCCM, WASH, and Protection.
• Playing an active role in coordination platforms such as REDLAC and the Humanitarian Country Team during emergencies.
• Providing trainings on DRR, in line with the 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, -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. 
• Implementing early recovery activities in communities, such as rehabilitation of community infrastructure and house repairs, livelihood recovery support, involvement of women in recovery committees, and linking affected individuals and families with development projects for the sustainability of actions.

Based on the regularity 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. Additionally, it is important to generate information on the link between internal displacement and forced migration, since one preludes the other in some cases. It will also be important to understand migration movements within and through the country.

IOM will strengthen DTM activities around the following primary outcomes: 

• Strengthening 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 hazards, 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 AAP and data protection principles, to better prepare for and respond to emergencies related to disasters.
• Using secondary data such as official administrative data from INM and the Consular and Migration Observatory of Honduras (CONMIGHO in Spanish), analyzing migration flows, with a focus  on migrants in transit and returnees. 

Key stakeholders, including UN agencies, the Humanitarian Country Team (UNCT), United Nations Network on Migration, 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.

Due to its geographical position and impact of several hazards during the cyclone season, in 2025, IOM Honduras will focus on:

• Provision of 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.
   

In line with IOM’s Country Strategic Plan and IOM’s global Strategic Result Framework (SRF), the Organization will focus on:  

• Strengthening the capacity of government officials and other actors to establish voluntary, safe, and dignified post-arrival assistance programmes tailored to the needs of returnees, their families and communities.
• Strengthening the capacity of government authorities to better regulate the recruitment industry and work with the private sector to promote the adoption of ethical recruitment principles and practices.
• Enhancing migration policy to facilitate entry and stay to address humanitarian or protection needs, including environmental migrants.
• Disseminating key information on the Work Abroad Programmes to facilitate migrants’ access to employment opportunities under existing labor mobility pathways. 

IOM will support movement assistance for vulnerable migrants through the strengthening of the central and local coordination to ensure better assistance at key entry points for those risk groups, mainly focusing on: 

• Provision of movement assistance such as in-kind, conditional vouchers, and different CBI modalities.
• Strengthening the coordination with authorities and the local community contributing to ensure enhanced movement assistance for migrants in situations of vulnerability, such as unaccompanied minors, lactating women, elderly and people with disabilities.