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Brazil Plan of Action – One year of Implementation
Solidarity with the Northern Triangle of Central America
Helping to mitigate the root causes of displacement within, among and from countries of the Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) and enhancing regional actions to protect, and search for durable solutions, for displaced populations.
2014-2015 Progress
Progress was made in all three of the Programmes under this chapter of the Brazil Plan of Action (i.e. the "Human Rights Observatory on Displacement", the "Prevention", and the "Dignified and Safe Transit" Programmes). In early June 2015, SICA (Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana), the economic and political organization of Central American States, approved the establishment of a "Human Rights Observatory on Displacement", as per a proposal in the Brazil Plan of Action. The aim of the Observatory is to build a common regional system for data collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative information on displaced populations in Central America, facilitate policy formulation, and foster regional coordination and cooperation. In the context of the Dignified and Safe Transit Programme, a profiling exercise of internally displaced people (IDPs) was concluded in Honduras. This diagnostic was undertaken by the Inter Institutional Commission for the Protection of People Displaced by Violence (CIPPDV), jointly with the National Institute for Statistics (INE) and ERIC-SJ (Equipo de Reflexión, Investigación y Comunicación de la Compañía de Jesús), and with the technical support of the Joint IDP Profiling Services (JIPS) and UNHCR, provides important information on the trends, causes, victims and consequences of internal displacement in Honduras, and will assist the development of policies and the adoption of measures to prevent forced displacement.