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It highlights low coverage of formal childcare for ages 0–3 and 3–5, alongside large gender gaps in labor force participation and persistent unpaid household and care work. The brief links childcare availability to children’s school readiness and long-term human capital outcomes, and proposes actions spanning institutional coordination, service expansion, financial support, and norm-changing shared responsibility.","Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disc losure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized  \nPolicy Brief  \nMapping childcare gaps in Honduras  \nMay 2025  \nPhoto: Flag of Honduras in Tegucigalpa by Manuel Chinchilla via [canva.com](canva.com)  \nKEY MESSAGES  \n In Honduras, less than one-fourth of children under primary-school age attend formal childcare and preschool services.  \n Among countries in Latin American and the Caribbean, Honduras has the second-highest gender gap in labor force participation (35 .4 percentage points), exceeded only by Guatemala (40 .4 percentage points) .  \n Most women outside the labor force cite household and care responsibilities as the reason for not looking for a job.  \n Like in many countries in the region, there are gaps in the regulatory framework for the overseeing of early childhood services for the 0-3 age group, making it challenging to enhance the provision of highquality childcare services.  \n Given the simultaneous nature of women’s decisions to work and to use childcare, ensuring the appropriate support for meeting childcare needs is a necessary condition for the success of every other policy intended to improve women’s outcomes in the labor market. Enhancing institutional coordination around childcare, expanding the supply of quality childcare, securing financial support to vulnerable households to afford these services, and fostering norm-changing behavior for increased co-responsibility between parents, are key actions in this regard.  \nCONTEXT  \nCompelling evidence demonstrates that investing in early childhood development significantly impacts children’s cognitive and socioemotional development; in addition, it could potentially have long lasting benefits on outcomes in adult age. At the same time, affordable nonparental childcare options are critically linked to women’s economic participation and employment. Evidence from both developed and developing countries shows that access to childcare services can lead to increases in female labor force participation.  \nAs in many Latin American and Caribbean countries, women in Honduras have fewer opportunities to participate in the labor force and, at the same time, carry a heavier load of unpaid home and care work than men (World Bank 2020, Mateo and Rodriguez-Chamussy, 2016) . Honduras is, in fact, the country with the second highest gender gap in labor force participation in the region (35 .4 percentage points), exceeded only by Guatemala (40 .4 percentage points) . [1] As per official statistics, only 40 percent of working-age women in Honduras participate in the labor market, compared with 75 percent of men. Moreover, although the gender differential in participation has slightly decreased in 3 percentage points since 2019, labor market outcomes have not reached pre-pandemic levels for both sexes. [2] Honduras is heavily reliant on family remittances, making it one of the most remittance-dependent countries in Latin America; in 2023, family remittances represented 25,9 percent of the country’s GDP. [3] Literature suggests that remittances have a small yet negative impact on the supply of female labor by increasing the purchasing of time for home production, a task typically assigned to women in the household (Sousa and Garcia-Suaza, 2018) . [4] Unequal intrahousehold arrangements, limited creation of quality jobs and the limited availability of childcare programs, prevent women from participating more in the labor market. In this regard, appropriate support for meeting childcare needs is critical for the success of policies intended to improve women’s outcomes in the labor market.  \nAt the same time, Honduras has the lowest share in the region of children ages 0–3 and 3–5 attending some sort of formal childcare or preschool program. Only 1.2 percent of children in the 0– 2 age-group attend a center of early stimulation, and 37.9 percent of children in the 3–5 age group attend a formal preschool program. ( EPHPM, 2019)[5] This means t","cbCaiuCnUrGgi7W8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuCnUrGgi7W8","pdf",1716777,5,1,10,"English","en",105,"# Key Messages\n# Context\n# The Problem","[{\"question\":\"How much formal childcare and preschool coverage exists for young children in Honduras?\",\"answer\":\"Less than one-fourth of children under primary-school age attend formal childcare and preschool services. Only 1.2% of children ages 0–2 attend early stimulation centers, while 37.9% of ages 3–5 attend formal preschool programs.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does childcare play in women’s participation in Honduras’ labor market?\",\"answer\":\"Affordable nonparental childcare is closely linked to women’s economic participation and employment. 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