As conflict dynamics change around the world and NGOs increasingly work in fragile contexts, humanitarian teams are being challenged to understand and work with markets where Designated Terrorist Entities (DTEs) and Counter Terrorism Measures (CTMs) are part of the operational landscape.
Many of the environments in which NRC and the humanitarian community operates have evolved over recent years with significant implications for how the organisation engages non-state armed groups (NSAGs or armed groups).
Analysing access to hard-to-reach (H2R) areas is a challenge for both the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the wider humanitarian community. Measuring levels across diverse settings is difficult because the local realities that determine access must be abstracted enough to comparable.
This report presents the challenges that people living with organised criminal violence in Honduras face, including in accessing protection and assistance, and how they navigate and cope with them.
Principled humanitarian access is the cornerstone of humanitarian programming. It is safeguarded under international legal frameworks, but by no means guaranteed during complex emergencies.
Non-state armed groups (NSAG) and de-facto authorities (DFA) play an active role in many humanitarian crises around the world and often have the power to facilitate or constrain humanitarian access by inflicting violence or imposing restrictions on people in need and humanitarian actors.