Latin America & the Caribbean

Honduras

• © UNESCO/K.Fubomichi
• Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras

The country is covered by the UNESCO Cluster Office in San José, Costa Rica.

Honduras is involved in variety of projects concerning biodiversity and conservation, sustainable development of coastal areas, alternative energies and natural disaster reduction.

The José Cecilio del Valle Solar Village, in Choluteca, was the first of its kind in Latin America. It was created within the framework of UNESCO's assistance to Central American countries affected by hurricane Mitch (1998). Such villages provide energy and basic services to the community in rural and remote human settlements that have no other access to energy. Solar Villages aim to demonstrate that stand-alone power for local consumption could prove to be the ultimate solution to some of the energy needs of the majority of world’s population living in poverty. Solar photovoltaic systems can be used to meet some energy needs such as street lighting and low power applications, i.e. water pumping, vaccine refrigeration, radio and television.

Below you can access the projects that are currently being implemented in the country within the framework of UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector.

People, Biodiversity and Ecology

- UNESCO and the European Space Agency (ESA) Project: Using Space Technologies to Assist Mesoamerica with the Biological Corridor More

- Biosphere reserve (WNBRs)

Oceans

- Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (IOCARIBE)

Coasts and Small Islands  

- Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity Program (CARICOMP): sustaining coastal biodiversity benefits and ecosystem services

Natural Disasters Reduction  

- Regional Action Programme Central America (RAP-CA) for Capacity Building for Natural Disaster Reduction More

Remote Sensing

- UNESCO and the European Space Agency (ESA) Project: Using Space Technologies to Assist Mesoamerica with the Biological Corridor More
 

Renewable and Alternative Energies 

- Solar Village Programme  More