The Financial Action Task Force of Latin America (GAFILAT) held a Strategic Preparation Course for Mutual Evaluation in Honduras on 24-27 March 2026 to strengthen the country’s readiness for GAFILAT’s fifth round of mutual evaluations. The programme was positioned as an initial, pre-evaluation step focused on setting objectives and a roadmap, documenting progress since the previous mutual evaluation, prioritising effectiveness gaps, and preparing verifiable evidence aligned to Honduras’s money laundering and terrorist financing risk profile. Across four working sessions, the agenda covered an introduction to the fifth round methodology, factors driving a successful evaluation, and approaches to identifying technical compliance and effectiveness gaps. Modules addressed risk assessment and policy coherence, corporate transparency and beneficial ownership, risk-based supervision, asset recovery, financial intelligence, investigation and prosecution of money laundering, and measures against terrorist financing and proliferation financing, alongside dedicated work on the evaluation roadmap and preparation of the risk and context, technical compliance, and effectiveness questionnaires. GAFILAT framed the course as a basis for Honduras to refine planning, interagency coordination, the country narrative, and the evidence package on effectiveness ahead of the evaluation process. The update also notes high-level Honduran commitment to the mutual evaluation process and continued strengthening of its AML/CFT/CPF system, and acknowledges Spain’s support for the activity.

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