Honduras: Humanitarian Access - Tegucigalpa (August 2024)
KEY MESSAGES
Many communities face widespread protection risks and mobility restrictions. This map highlights only the communities where humanitarian organizations are present. These risks and restrictions may however be more widespread, affecting a much larger number of communities.
These communities experience at least one form of restricted access to basic goods and services, as well as limited mobility. These challenges are primarily due to territorial control by armed groups, invisible borders, stigmatization and armed confrontations. Furthermore, weather conditions, especially during the rainy season and the beginning of the hurricane season, aggravate the situation by generating physical obstacles such as floods and landslides.
Despite access to vulnerable areas, humanitarian organizations face moderate to severe barriers for operations. These include imposed schedules and routes by armed groups, self-protection measures for personnel (such as avoiding "invisible borders") and lengthy negotiations to access controlled areas, all of which significantly hinder humanitarian assistance.
In affected areas, children, adolescents and young people and women are particularly vulnerability, exposed to risks such as forced recruitment, school dropout, sexual violence and adolescent pregnancy.
In the event of a major disaster, humanitarian responses would be hampered by the interference of armed groups, who could prioritize certain groups, limit the access of new organizations and further restrict the mobility of both the population and humanitarian workers.