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Ciudad Mujer — Honduras's Integrated One-Stop Women's Services Centres

Honduras · Tegucigalpa · See the Honduras profile · See the Tegucigalpa profile

Evidence: Randomised controlled trial Top 48% 67/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Honduras replicated El Salvador's Ciudad Mujer model with one-stop centres integrating 13 public agencies and 70+ free services for women, including GBV response. A 2020 RCT found a violence-awareness tool raised GBV-resource visits by up to 137%.

137 %
Increase in visits to GBV-resource pages vs control (2020)
70+
Services integrated per centre

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Government of Honduras, Instituto Nacional de la Mujer / Ciudad Mujer programme office; Inter-American Development Bank (technical assistance)
Period
2016–ongoing
Keywords
gender-based violence, women's economic empowerment, health, one-stop services, public administration

Context

Honduras adapted El Salvador's Ciudad Mujer model into a government-run one-stop centre, opened in Tegucigalpa in 2016 with Inter-American Development Bank technical assistance through the Instituto Nacional de la Mujer. Each centre integrates 13 public institutions delivering over 70 free services across labour, health and GBV response, with on-site childcare.

Results

In a 2020 RCT, the UK Behavioural Insights Team found women shown a Facebook 'Violentometro' violence-severity tool were 137% more likely to visit Ciudad Mujer's GBV-resource pages than a control group, with treatment variants producing 19.4% and 12.9% increases in site visits.

Conclusions

A rare randomised evaluation of a Central American GBV programme's effect on help-seeking behaviour, though it measures one digital outreach tool rather than the centres' full range of services; no verified national reach figure for the whole network was found.

Implementation
Indicative cost
High (€500k–€5M)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills
Instituto Nacional de la Mujer, Inter-American Development Bank (technical assistance), 13 co-located public institutions, on-site childcare staff

Conditions for success

  • Multi-agency co-location under one roof
  • On-site childcare to remove a service-access barrier

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