HONDURAS

Decentralization and Women's Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean--Honduras:

For the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada

focus group discussions, fgds, impact evaluation, needs assessment, women in development, focus group training, development evaluation

On the way to work, Honduras

This review for the Women’s Rights and Citizenship Program (WRC) used field visits and desk reviews of multiple projects in three regions—Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South/Southeast Asia—and one project in Middle East and North Africa. The review explored WRC’s programmatic relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency in supporting three core objectives–fostering quality research and analysis, building research capacity, and supporting research that results in evidence-based, concrete recommendations for policy influence and social change. GDI Director, Janet Mancini Billson, conducted focus group and key informant interviews in 2009 with members of the FUNDE research team, along with activist women in several towns in Honduras, who are co-conducting participatory research on the impacts of decentralization on women's empowerment.