International Development Grant
Canadian Support for Child Protection and Juvenile Justice Reform in Honduras - PRONIÑEZ
Project Number: CA-3-D002570001
Status: Terminating
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Maximum Contribution: $19,500,000.00
Start Date: May 18, 2016
End Date: December 31, 2023
Duration: 7.6 years
Project Description
The project aims to strengthen the capacity of the Honduran national child protection institute DINAF to develop an effective national framework that will better protect children and youth from violence exploitation abuse and discrimination. It will also enhance the protective environment of 870 000 boys girls and adolescents in 35 municipalities of Honduras by increasing the capacity and coordination of municipal actors involved in promoting protecting and restoring the rights of children. Project activities include: (1) developing a national child protection normative framework; (2) developing an inter-institutional management scheme at the national level for the sound implementation of child-related public policies; (3) creating a national information system and community-based data collection plan to improve accountability and evidence-based policy-making; (4) preparing a specialized curriculum on criminal juvenile justice and train justice sector workers to support the implementation of the juvenile justice legal framework; (5) designing and implementing a restorative justice model including community-based non-custodial rehabilitation programs and mechanisms to facilitate the reintegration of adolescent offenders; (6) articulating community and institutional responses and strengthening the national child protection institute's leadership at the local level to strengthen community violence prevention; (7) developing participations skills for boys girls and adolescents to become agents of change in the municipal development process including through participatory child-rights based local planning in the prioritized municipalities.
Expected Results
Expected results for this project include: (1) Improved gender-sensitive rights-based child protection and juvenile justice systems in Honduras; (2) Strengthened implementation of gender-sensitive municipal child protection mechanisms and juvenile justice programs.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of December 2023 include: (1) the legislative decree created and effectively implemented the National Comprehensive System of Guaranties of Children and Adolescents Rights (SIGADENAH as its acronym in Spanish); and (2) successfully piloted the SIGADENAH’s model in 37 municipalities in 6 departments of the country where more vulnerability for children’s and adolescents’ rights had been identified. Examples of outputs contributing to those results include are a National Council to lead SIGADENAH installed by national government of Honduras; a national policy for the children and adolescents aligned with the Convention of Children’s Rights approved; statistics on children’s and adolescents’ situation produced as evidence to base public policies; training methodology designed and applied to develop institutions capacities to implement public policies for the children and the youth; special protection subsystem for children and adolescents strengthened through the development of standardized operations procedures as well as a case management system; technical assistance provided to develop a policy for social reintegration a model of rehabilitation and reintegration and a case management system to warranty access to formal and no formal education skills for life and physical and emotional health for the youth in conflict with the law; a training system designed and implemented in 37 municipalities to develop municipal management capacities to plan and budget municipal investment governance participation and monitoring of results at municipal level; a sustainable strategy implemented to scale the municipal SIGADENAH model to 70 additional municipalities with the participation of the Association of Municipalities of Honduras the Ministry of Children Adolescence and Family and the Global Movement for Children; and networks of children and adolescents were organized in 37 municipalities of Honduras.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
NGM Americas
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Department-Initiated