The women’s political participation and leadership (WPPL) assessment in Honduras uses the latest iteration of USAID’s WPPL Assessment Framework. The Honduras WPPL assessment investigates the barriers to and opportunities for expanding women’s participation and leadership in Honduras along socio-cultural, institutional, and individual dimensions. There are promising WPPL indicators in Honduras: women make up a majority of voters and hold elected positions at all levels of government, including the presidency, thanks in part to the gender quota. However, political parties are a major space of exclusion for women, and violence against women in politics, and gender-based violence in general, is pervasive and a key barrier to women’s full and equal participation.
