Reducing violence in poor urban areas of Honduras by building community resilience through community-based interventions.

Objectives: To examine the impact of a 3 year community-based violence prevention intervention on risk of violence and social capital in two poor urban communities in Honduras in 2011-2014.

Methods: A quasi-experimental design pre and post implementation of the intervention was conducted based on data from two randomly selected samples using the same structured questionnaire in 2011 and in 2014.

Results: Community members had a 42 % lower risk of violence in 2014 compared to 2011.