Honduras Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS)

  • R Research Project/Report/Study

I Inactive

Key Information

In 2017, the Government of Honduras launched the Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS), with technical assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as part of the Together for Girls partnership. The VACS measure multiple forms of violence against children and adolescents including sexual, physical, and emotional; they also provide important data on risk factors, protective factors, and consequences of violence. In 2019, the Government of Honduras launched its VACS report with support from CDC, USAID, and other partners. To achieve these purposes, the Honduras VACS assessed the experiences of females and males ages 13-24 via a nationally representative household survey. Individuals ages 13-24 were selected to better understand childhood violence. Moreover, the study selected an additional stratum that was representative of five cities. This stratum included urban areas of Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, Choloma, Tela, and La Ceiba. This urban stratum represents a high priority for data because of high rates of community violence in urban areas. In this report, significantly different findings in urban areas relative to national findings are reported only in the text. Additional details on the sampling and methodology are included in Appendix B: Supplementary Sampling Methods.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Honduras

Location(s)

Latin America & Caribbean

Honduras

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2017 - 2019

Partner(s)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Ministry Affiliation

Sub-Secretariat of Security in Prevention, Secretariat of Security, Sectoral Cabinet of Prevention, Peace and Coexistence, and National Institute of Statistics of Honduras (INE).

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • School-related gender-based violence

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Gender equality
  • Masculinities/boys
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Other community members - female, Other community members - male

Age

13 - 24

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

  • N/A

Program Approaches Back to Top

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved critical thinking

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent