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Equator Initiative Case StudiesLocal sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities
Honduras
ASSOCIATION OF WATER COMMITTEESOF THE SOUTHERN SECTOR OF PICOBONITO NATIONAL PARK (AJAASSPIB)
Empowered live
Resilient nation
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UNDP EQUATOR INITIATIVE CASE STUDY SERIES
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that wo
or people and or nature. Few publications or case studies tell the ull story o how such initiatives evolve, the breadth
their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practition
themselves guiding the narrative.
To mark its 10-year anniversary, the Equator Initiative aims to ll this gap. The ollowing case study is one in a growing ser
that details the work o Equator Prize winners vetted and peer-reviewed best practices in community-based environmenconservation and sustainable livelihoods. These cases are intended to inspire the policy dialogue needed to take local succ
to scale, to improve the global knowledge base on local environment and development solutions, and to serve as models
replication. Case studies are best viewed and understood with reerence to The Power o Local Action: Lessons rom 10 Years
the Equator Prize, a compendium o lessons learned and policy guidance that draws rom the case material.
Click on the map to visit the Equator Initiatives searchable case study database.
EditorsEditor-in-Chie: Joseph CorcoranManaging Editor: Oliver HughesContributing Editors: Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Erin Lewis, Whitney Wilding
Contributing WritersEdayatu Abieodun Lamptey, Erin Atwell, Jonathan Clay, Joseph Corcoran, Sean Cox, Larissa Currado, David Godrey, Sarah Gordon,
Oliver Hughes, Wen-Juan Jiang, Sonal Kanabar, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Rachael Lader, Erin Lewis, Jona Liebl, Mengning Ma
Mary McGraw, Brandon Payne, Juliana Quaresma, Peter Schecter, Martin Sommerschuh, Whitney Wilding
DesignSean Cox, Oliver Hughes, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Amy Korngiebel, Kimberly Koserowski, Erin Lewis, John Mulqueen, Loren
de la Parra, Brandon Payne, Mariajos Satizbal G.
AcknowledgementsThe Equator Initiative acknowledges with gratitude the Association o Water Committees o Pico Bonito National Park and in particu
the guidance and inputs o Zumilda Duarte (AJAASSPIB) and Chris Patterson (EcoLogic Development Fund). All photo credits courtesy
AJAASSPIB and Chris Patterson. Maps courtesy o CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia.
Suggested CitationUnited Nations Development Programme. 2013. Association o Water Committees o the Southern Sector o Pico Bonito National Pa
Honduras. Equator Initiative Case Study Series. New York, NY.
http://www.equatorinitiative.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=747:10years&catid=189:2012-eventshttp://www.equatorinitiative.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=747:10years&catid=189:2012-eventshttp://www.equatorinitiative.org/index.php?option=com_winners&view=casestudysearch&Itemid=685http://www.equatorinitiative.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=747:10years&catid=189:2012-eventshttp://www.equatorinitiative.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=747:10years&catid=189:2012-events -
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PROJECT SUMMARYThis association o 27 village water committees located inthe southern buer zone o Hondurass Pico Bonito NationalPark oversees the management o micro-watersheds andtrains local communities in reorestation, conservation andthe application o environmentally riendly technologies. Aprimary ocus is ensuring local access to potable water in aregion prone to shortages.
The association made the connection between decliningreshwater supply and deorestation, unsustainableagricultural practices, ranching, and rewood collection
taking place in local watersheds. The association bringstogether water committees who are responsible ormaintaining water delivery systems, protecting waterrecharge zones, and both collecting and regulating water-use ees. The association has reorested more than 120hectares o land with native tree species. It has grown romour to 27 water committees and serves as a learning modelor more than 80 communties across the northern coast othe country.
KEY FACTS
EQUATOR PRIZE WINNER: 2012
FOUNDED: 2003
LOCATION: Aguan River Valley watershed, Olanchito
BENEFICIARIES: 11,000 people in 27 communities
BIODIVERSITY: Pico Bonito National Park
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Background and Context 4
Key Activities and Innovations 6
Biodiversity Impacts 7
Socioeconomic Impacts 7
Policy Impacts 8
Sustainability 9
Replication 10
Partners 10
ASSOCIATION OF WATER COMMITTEES OF THESOUTHERN SECTOR OF PICO BONITO NATIONAL PARKHonduras
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he Association o Water Committees o the Southern Sector o
ico Bonito National Park (La Asociacin de Juntas Administradoras
de Agua del Sector Sur de Pico Bonito - AJAASSPIB) is a volunteer-run
ssociation o 27 village water committees located in the southern
uer zone o Hondurass Pico Bonito National Park. The association
works to ensure the sustainability o potable water or its member
ommunities by promoting eective local governance o water
esources and conservation o the orests that sustain them.
ocated on the northern coast o Honduras near the town o La
Ceiba, Pico Bonito National Park is the third largest national park
n the country. The park covers 265,000 acres o land and contains
wide range o habitats, including tropical broadlea, conier andloud orests, all o which host a great diversity o animals including
aguars, armadillos, wild pigs, monkeys, toucans, mountains lions
nd several endangered and endemic species. Park orests also
maintain important ecosystem services, including resh water
rovision. A sizable rural population depends on the water provided
y this ecosystem.
AJAASSPIB works in the Aguan River Valley watershed in the
municipality o Olanchito. The associations work has been o
mmense importance or the communities o the upper valley as
hey, like many in rural Honduras, have suered marked reductions
n available reshwater due to deorestation and the degradation
rivers. The drivers o this environmental decline include logging,nsustainable agricultural practices, ranching and rewood
ollection. Political instability and a decit o investment on the part
the central government has also let water delivery inrastructure
n rural areas in disrepair. The communities served by AJAASSPIB are
ocated in a particularly dry region with ew economic opportunities.
Average incomes in the region are 25 per cent less than the national
verage, with nearly a third o the population living in extreme
overty. Three o the associations member communities are
olupan an indigenous group o approximately 650 people within
he municipality o Olanchito.
A history o decentralized water management
AJAASSPIB was ormed in 2003 when the members o our vi
water committees decided that the threats conronting the w
catchment area could be more eectively addressed by wor
together.
Village water committees (Juntas Administradoras de Agua)
common throughout Honduras and, in their current orm, repres
legacy o the decentralisation and privatization o the countrys w
sector since the mid-1990s. Hondurass Poverty Reduction Stra
Paper (2001) set a target o achieving 95 per cent access to po
water and sanitation by 2015, and identied the decentralisatithe National Autonomous Aqueduct and Drainage Service (Ser
Nacional de Acueductos y Alcantrillados - SANAA) as a key mean
which to achieve this. There are currently more than 5,000 Ju
de Agua in Honduras. While community water boards have bee
existence or decades, arising as communal attempts to ma
local water resources in the countrys rural areas, legislation in
and 2006 paved the way or the legal recognition o these bo
responsibility or maintaining water delivery systems, prote
water recharge zones, and collecting household water-user e
the village level.
In practice, however, many village water committees lack
technical expertise, nancial resources and management capto eectively deliver water and sanitation solutions to
communities they serve. AJAASSPIB was established, to allow vi
water committees in the southern Pico Bonito buer zone to
resources, coordinate eorts, leverage support rom internat
partners, and implement regional projects. A monthly water us
o USD 1.50 is levied on households in each member communi
sustain the associations work.
Background and Context
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Size and governance structure today
ince its inception, AJAASSPIB has grown rom the our ounding
ommittees to 27 member groups, and increased its membership
evenold to the more than 11,000 beneciaries. This growth is
testament to AJAASSPIBs tireless leadership, its desire to be a
ositive agent o change, and the widespread support it has been
ble to oster among its member communities.
AJAASSPIB is governed by a General Assembly and a Board
Directors. The General Assembly consists o 27 members,
epresenting the village water committees o each o the member
ommunities. Each community elects its own representative onto
he General Assembly. The General Assembly then elects the Board
Directors every two years. Positions on the Board include a
resident, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, Comptroller, and two
at-large members.
Issues to be addressed by the Board o Directors are raised at Ge
Assembly meetings. When decisions are taken, AJAASSPIBs
in cooperation with individual village water committee mem
hold responsibility or implementation. The association employ
permanent ontaneros (community plumbers or water enginee
one per member community each o whom are responsible or w
inrastructure maintenance. One ull-time Community Promoresponsible or meeting coordination, recruiting participants, ov
acilitation duties, community outreach, arranging meetings
donors and partners, training community members on tree nu
management and reorestation, and overseeing the logistics o
ecient wood stove installation. When large-scale inrastruc
and reorestation projects are prioritized, community member
hired on a temporary basis to carry out the work.
It is urgent that communities, organizations and governments, who are aware of the damag
that humans have caused to our planet, unite to counteract the adverse effects that these
actions have caused. By making rational use of our natural resources, we can mitigate this
damage and stop the devastating catastrophes that threaten us.
Ms. Zumilda Duarte, AJAASSPIB
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Key Activities and Innovations
he collective power o AJAASSPIB, derived rom the respective
trengths o its member committees, has allowed it to tackle large-cale threats to community water access and the environmental
ntegrity o the region. With a local deorestation rate o 10 per cent,
many orest landscapes within the Pico Bonito National Park are
egraded or vulnerable. While the park itsel is home to an estimated
4,000 people living in 82 communities, its 19 upland watersheds
nd more than 200 rivers and streams supply drinking water to more
han 500,000 people in surrounding communities and nearby towns
nd cities. The conservation challenges acing the park have clear
nd unambiguous repercussions beyond its borders.
AJAASSPIB has pursued innovative approaches to protect water
esources across the southern buer zone o the park and done so
o great eect including projects that address threats to the localwater catchment area and those that improve the quality o drinking
water at the household level. The association carries out community-
based micro-watershed management throughout the zone, and
urrently has 14 micro-watersheds under its direct management with
more than 11,000 direct beneciaries. The community-managed
watersheds benet an area o roughly 40,000 hectares.
Reorestation, water purication, uel-efcient stoves
o counter the deorestation and orest degradation that have
mpacted local water availability and quality, AJAASSPIB has
eorested 120 hectares o land with over a dozen native broadleapecies, including caoba (Swietenia macrophylla) and cedro rojo
Cedrela ssilis). These eorts have helped reconnect orest patches
with the nearby national park and improve habitat or endemic
orest-dependent species while simultaneously conserving the
ydrological unctions o soil and orest cover. Agroorestry pilot
projects have also successully increased orest cover while allowing
or continued cultivation o traditional elds. Planting guama treesInga edulis) among conventional crops such as corn and beans has
ncreased productivity and reduced the area o orest cleared or
gricultural production.
To improve household water quality, AJAASSPIB has initiat
project to puriy water by chlorination. Chlorination tabletsinstalled in large water tanks that service whole commun
Member communities are each responsible or maintaining
own chlorination systems and monitoring them to ensure
are unctioning properly. As a result, households in ve o
associations 27 member communities can now drink water dir
rom their aucets, something that was unthinkable a ew y
ago. AJAASSPIB also trialled a solar disinectant method o w
purication, but abandoned it due to community ears that he
plastic might harm their health.
To complement to its reorestation activities, AJAASSPIB prom
and installsuel-ecient cooking woodstoves. Nearly 1,200 st
have been installed to date, resulting in greatly reduced preson surrounding orests. The stoves are highly ecient and re
the amount o wood needed or household cooking. In ord
increase the impact o this activity and consolidate vital comm
involvement, AJAASSPIB requires that in exchange or each s
installation, recipient amilies actively participate in conserva
activities.
Expansion o the AJAASSPIB model
In order to ensure the sustainability o its activities, AJAASSPIB
established environmental unds in member communities
allocate a percentage o household water user ees toward lterm watershed protection and restoration activities. Twelve
unds have been established to date. These unds are used to n
tree nurseries to support AJAASSPIBs reorestation activities,
also und a range o environmental education activities.
The ecacy o the associations work can be seen in the adop
o its activities by local government. A cooperation agreement
signed in 2011 arranging or a Payment or Ecosystem Ser
(PES) agreement with the Municipality o Olanchito. The agreem
places AJAASSPIB in charge o the conservation o a 6,500-ha
watershed that provides water to the citys 26,000 residents.
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Impacts
BIODIVERSITY IMPACTS
n its conservation work, AJAASSPIB has chosen a strategy which
ensures eective local governance o water catchment areas and
protection o the orests that protect them. The association is currently
protecting a water catchment area o approximately 40,000 hectares.
Beyond the benets related to water provision, the protection and
estoration o these orests enhance the ecological integrity o the
buer zone o Pico Bonito National Park, strengthening the park
tsel and protecting the habitats and biodiversity it harbours.
The associations reorestation o 120 hectares o land has used
native broadlea species that also have commercial value suchs caoba (Swietenia macrophylla) and cedro rojo (Cedrela ssilis).
uch reorestation has helped to reconnect orest patches with the
nearby national park and improve habitat or orest-dependent
pecies such as the jaguar (Pantera onca), quetzal (Pharomachrus
mocinno), ocelot (Leopardus wiedii nicarague), numerous monkey
pecies, tapir (Tapirus bairdii), the endangered Honduran Emerald
Hummingbird (Amazilia luciae) and the Black-chested Spiny-tailed
guana (Ctenosaura melanosterna).
Alleviating pressures on local resources
The 1,200 uel-ecient woodstoves AJAASSPIB has installed use
up to 60 per cent less wood than traditional stoves, signicantlydecreasing pressure on orest resources while providing tangible
wellbeing benets. The establishment o agroorestry pilot projects
has also proven to be a successul way to increase orest cover while
llowing or continued cultivation o traditional elds. Projects
nclude planting guama (Inga edulis) trees among conventional
rops to increase agricultural productivity and reduce the area o
orest converted or agricultural cultivation. Inga edulis is known or
ts rapid growth rates, tolerance o acid soils, and high production o
eay biomass to control weeds and erosion.
SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS
The primary socioeconomic impact o AJAASSPIBS wo
the protection o potable water sources or current and u
generations. By promoting local governance o water resource
working to protect the orests that sustain hydrological unct
AJAASSPIB improves and protects the quality and availa
o water in its 27 communities, benetting 11,000 people.
communities that are members o the association are particu
vulnerable to threats to their water sources. Not only are
located in a particularly dry region o Honduras, but the region o
very little in the way o economic opportunity. As a result, amil
these communities would struggle to purchase expensive bowater i their local drinking water sources ailed them.
As a result o AJAASSPIBs water purication activities, househo
ve o its member communities can now drink water directly
their aucets. The water is puried at the community level, u
chlorination tablets installed in community water tanks. Ha
a local supply o potable water in the home eliminates the
or amilies to purchase bottled drinking water. With AJAASS
community-based model, amilies pay a monthly ee o about
1.50 to receive tap water. This same amount would purchase on
gallons o bottled water, representing enormous savings or t
amilies and communities.
In addition to household savings on water and uel costs, AJAASS
work has had positive eects on local incomes. Permanent
positions generate direct employment or community mem
including the 27 ontaneros and Community Promoter
temporary hires or large-scale inrastructure and reorest
projects are a source o short-term employment and income.
AJAASSPIB has also contributed to greater local awareness o
need or conservation, linkages between healthy ecosystems
local wellbeing, and grassroots approaches or maintaining w
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delivery systems. This knowledge will be critical in helping to adapt
o the eects o climate change, preventing water scarcity and
mitigating threats to water access. Honduras has been ound to be
one o the most climate vulnerable countries in the world third
behind Bangladesh and Myanmar according to the 2011 Global
Climate Risk Index (Germanwatch, 2011). The community-based
action model promoted by AJAASSPIB is essential or spurring
uture local adaptation measures, and stands the Aguan River
Valley communities in good stead to withstand more unpredictableweather patterns.
Empowerment o women
AJAASSPIB prioritises the empowerment o women in its initiatives,
ecognizing that women are central agents o meaningul social
change. The process o installing uel-ecient woodstoves is the
most evident example. Groups o between eight and ten women
gather to receive training on stove construction, mainten
and benets, and then construct stoves as a group, progressin
each group members home. In addition, by ensuring that s
recipients participate in conservation activities in exchange
their stove, AJAASSPIB acilitates greater leadership and solid
amongst women in actively solving the environmental
economic challenges they ace. As principal ood preparers, wo
are also the primary recipients o the health benets that the
stoves provide. The stoves drastically reduce the smoke prodduring cooking, thus reducing incidence o respiratory illne
The associations leadership, as voted or by member commun
refects the high levels o participation amongst women. A
2012, three o AJAASSPIBs seven board members were wome
was its Community Promoter. Its current Board Secretary, Zum
Duarte, is the ormer President o the Board and is the public
o the association. A ormer schoolteacher, Ms. Duarte has a
as AJAASSPIBs spokesperson on multiple occasions, most rec
during a press conerence announcing its cooperative agreem
with the Municipality o Olanchito.
POLICY IMPACTS
The recently signed ve-year cooperative agreement with
Municipality o Olanchito is evidence o AJAASSPIBs advancem
in the policy arena. The purpose o the agreement is or commun
and local government to work together to sustainably ma
water resources, beginning with an awareness campaign and
plans to move toward a ormal payment or ecosystem ser
(PES) scheme. The agreements implementation is ocially ba
by representatives o the Honduras Forest Conservation Insti
the National Autonomous University, the local agricultural scie
college, and several international NGOs, all o which will be inv
to participate in discussioons about PES unding and co
mechanisms over the next several years. There are many examp
successul PES and PES-like arrangements in Honduras and Ce
America, but ew i any have been managed rom start to nis
rural people as is the case with AJAASSPIB.
To date there has been a series o mesas de dialogo or stakeho
roundtables including community members, municipal autho
and other local institutions to discuss the implications o a
arrangement in the region or eective, community-b
watershed management. Eight roundtable discussion mee
have been held so ar, involving 227 people. A PES agreement w
nance a comprehensive, community-based approach whe
rural villages come together to improve water access and qual
has the potential to serve as a compelling example or policy-maacross Honduras, particularly in other water-insecure regions.
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Both national and international policy makers must accompany the communities an
organizations that are working on environmental conservation, in order to guarantee that th
authorities and the laws are respected and righteously applied.
Ms. Zumilda Duarte, AJAASSPIB
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Sustainability and Replication
SUSTAINABILITYAJAASSPIB has been in operation since 2003 and has laid a solid
oundation or long-term, sustainable impacts. Socially, the
ssociation has made great eorts to generate community buy-in
nd participation rom a range o local stakeholders. Institutionally,
he association has prioritized local governance o water resources
nd ensured that the 27 participating communities have gained
he capacity to manage micro-watersheds in the long run. All o
AJAASSPIBs eorts take an integrated approach to ecosystem
management that prioritizes the availability o water resources not
nly or current, but also or uture generations.
inancially, AJAASSPIB has made great eorts to become sel-
ucient and to establish reliable sources o revenue. A monthly ee
USD 1.50 rom households in each o the associations member
ommunities helps to cover operational costs, with individual village
environmental unds established to aid communities in saving or
eorestation and environmental education work. AJAASSPIBs
roposed PES scheme would urther bolster nancial sustainability,
s the association would receive consistent payments rom the
Municipality o Olanchito or the protection and management o the
water catchment area. Financial support rom international partners
ncluding EcoLogic and CARE also help to sustain AJAASSPIBs work.
mproved social cohesion and institutional strength
AJAASSPIB has increased unity within and between communities
n its area o infuence, helping to develop a strong social abric,
which has arguably increased social resilience and the ability o
articipating communities to adapt to change. The association is
ighly active in the region and has been particularly successul at
enerating buy-in or water resource management amongst diverse
takeholders. To cite one example, the associations current president
s a cattle rancher, representing a group o rural land users typically
een as the enemy o conservation initiatives.
AJAASSPIB has successully used the universal need or clean w
as an organizing ocal point and ostered participation amo
community members o all backgrounds. Its work has also utilize
expertise o international partners such as EcoLogic Developm
Fund and CARE to build local administrative and technical capac
Through these multi-year partnerships, AJAASSPIBs leadership
gained knowledge in the areas o nance and budgeting, m
watershed management, water analysis and measurement,
ecient stove construction, project design, and monitoring
evaluation. These skills and knowledge strengthen the organiza
ability to respond to external pressures and help ensure contin
operation.
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Our experience has taught us that we can do great things with local communities. We therefore
invite the communities of other regions and countries of the world to try to follow suit and unite
their efforts with ours, because together anything is possible.
Ms. Zumilda Duarte, AJAASSPIB
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REPLICATION
Due to widespread support or AJAASSPIBs mission and vision, its
members are highly engaged with its work. The resulting high level
community involvement is the main aspect o the association that
ther organizations have sought to replicate. AJAASSPIB has served
s a learning model or approximately 80 village water committees
nd ve municipal water committees on the north coast o Honduras
n the Department o Atlntida.
eplication has been initiated in partnership with the Mancomunidad
e Municipios del Centro de Atlntida (MAMUCA), a community-
ased organization working to improve sustainable development
n this region. MAMUCAs ocus area is to the north o Pico Bonito
ational Park, thus complementing AJAASSPIBs conservation
orts to the south. MAMUCA and AJAASSPIB hold regular learning
xchanges amongst their members to share best practices and
ollaborate on how to overcome common challenges. JAASSPIB
also sharing its model with communities located in and around
he watershed that provides water or the city o Olanchito. This
eplication eort has been cultivated by the municipality, including
hrough a comprehensive awareness raising campaign that is carried
ut both within resident communities and the city o Olanchito itsel.
PARTNERS
he Associations work has been supported by a number o like-
minded partners. Since 2007, AJAASSPIB has maintained a ormal
artnership with EcoLogic Development Fund, which helped
evelop the association during its early years. EcoLogic assists
JAASSPIB with its projects related to microwatershed management,
uel-ecient woodstoves, environmental unds, water purication
nd its proposed PES arrangement.
he association also partners with CARE, which provides technical
ssistance or water quality monitoring and the auditing o village
water committees accounting and use o household water ees.
ARE is also helping AJAASSPIB to carry out a micro-meter pilot
roject, whereby water meters will be installed in households to
etermine how much water is being consumed.
AJAASSPIB maintains productive relationships with several reg
and national authorities and organizations including SANAA
Honduran national water authority) and AHJASA (the national-
association o water committees). In 2011, AJAASSPIB signed a
year cooperative agreement with the Municipality o Olanchit
described above; the association was approached by the Municip
o Olanchito to replicate its work because o the success it
achieved in the areas adjacent to the city. The association has
previously collaborated with a number o other international Nincluding ArtCorps, Engineers without Borders, and Nepen
a Danish NGO working to promote conservation and sustain
use o the worlds orests as well as promoting respect or o
dependent communities.
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FURTHER REFERENCE
Association o Water Committees o the Southern Sector o Pico Bonito National Park Equator Initiative prole page:
equatorinitiative.org/index.php?option=com_winners&view=winner_detail&id=34&Itemid=683
EcoLogic Development Fund website: http://www.ecologic.org/en/where-we-work/honduras/pico-bonito
EcoLogic Deveopment Fund. 2009. Community-Led Watershed Protection and Management, Olanchito, Honduras. Available at:
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