Honduras - Corredor Seco Food Security Project

Overview & Synopsis

Ratings of the Corredor Seco Food Security Project for Honduras were as follows: outcome was moderately satisfactory; Bank performance was moderately satisfactory; Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) quality was substantial. Lessons and recommendations are as follows. Implementation timelines in fragile, climate-vulnerable contexts should be realistic and flexible, with design that explicitly calibrates political, institutional, and climate risks, builds time buffers into schedules, and preserves continuity and institutional memory to reduce the need for repeated restructurings. Sustaining food and nutrition security gains among poor and extremely poor households requires medium- to long-term engagement beyond project closure, including continued access to inputs, periodic technical assistance, and mentoring to maintain adoption of improved practices and the viability of on- and off-farm enterprises. Integrated, multisectoral approaches that jointly address climate-smart agriculture, income diversification, nutrition, health, sanitation, and behavior change are more effective for extremely poor households than standalone interventions and should be prioritized despite higher operational complexity. Advancing gender equality in rural settings is best achieved through integrated, participatory approaches embedded in productive activities—such as dialogue-based training that engages women and men together on norms, shared decision-making, leadership, and gender-based violence—therefore future operations should resource gender-integrated participatory models as core design features rather than isolated activities.