Tenders are invited for DISEÑO DEL MARCO DE ACCIÓN PROGRAMÁTICO DE VIVIENDA Y HOGARES PRODUCTIVOS. GUAT/HON/ESV Closing Date: 31 Mar 2026 Type: Consultancy 1. INSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION Habitat for Humanity is an international non-profit organization with a global presence and a consolidated track record in the provision of housing solutions, community development, and local capacity building. In the Northern Triangle, Habitat implements comprehensive programs that address access to adequate housing, climate resilience, social inclusion, access to basic services, advocacy on public policies, and sustainable improvement of livelihoods. Vision: A world where everyone has a suitable place to live. Mission: Habitat for Humanity calls on people to build homes, communities, and hope to show Gods love in action. Mission Principles: Demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ. Focus on housing. Advocating for adequate housing. Promote dignity and hope. Support transformative and sustainable community development. The Collaborative Technical Unit (UTC) has the mandate to act as a subregional technical hub in the Northern Triangle. Its role is to actively contribute to the mobilization of resources, as well as to the increase and diversification of institutional funding sources, through the development of solid programmatic agendas, proposals of high technical value, and a coherent positioning before donors, foundations, financial institutions, and other key actors. Likewise, the UTC articulates internal and external technical capacities, develops strategic programmatic frameworks, supports institutional positioning before donors and strategic allies, and accompanies the national offices of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador in the structuring of programs and projects of greater scale, quality, and impact. This consultancy is directly framed in this subregional mandate. 2. CONTEXT AND JUSTIFICATION The economic empowerment of vulnerable families is a critical component to ensure the sustainability of housing solutions and the well-being of households and communities. Institutional experience shows that access to adequate housing, without complementary strategies that contribute to improving families income from housing (productive housing), such as income generation, decent employment, entrepreneurship or financial inclusion, limits the ability of households to maintain, improve and take advantage of these solutions. In this context, Habitat seeks to structure economic empowerment as a new subregional program area, aligned and articulated with housing, climate resilience, youth, and gender equity. Currently, efforts in this area are different between countries and projects. The absence of a common framework limits institutional positioning, the scalability of interventions, and the ability to attract strategic financing. In addition, strengthening economic empowerment is recognized as a key element to address structural causes that directly affect the growth of the housing deficit, such as income instability, irregular migration, gaps in access to education and health, unplanned urbanization, and the limited impact on public policies related to housing and territorial development. This consultancy responds to the need for a clear vision, common methodologies, and a coherent programmatic portfolio at the subregional level that allows these challenges to be addressed in a systemic manner. 3. GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THE CONSULTANCY Design and co-construct a Design of the Programmatic Framework of Action for Housing and Productive Homes, as a vehicle for the Economic Empowerment of Habitat for Humanity in the Northern Triangle (Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador). The framework should be fully aligned with the institutional strategy, explicitly integrated with the housing sector and conceived as a practical tool to guide the formulation of programmes, projects, operational methodologies and capacity-building processes at the regional and national levels, helping to address structural factors that affect the housing deficit and the socio-economic vulnerability of households. 4. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES a) Critically analyze the current status of economic empowerment initiatives linked to Housing and Community Development within Habitat in the three countries, identifying strengths, gaps and opportunities for improvement. b) Define a common conceptual and programmatic framework that establishes principles, approaches and expected results in economic empowerment. c) To develop clear, replicable and adaptable operational methodologies to the different national contexts. d) To design profiles of strategic projects that can be used for positioning and mobilization of resources. (e) Strengthen the technical capacities of the national teams for the implementation of the programme framework; 5. SCOPE OF THE CONSULTANCY The consultancy will be developed in five clearly differentiated, interrelated and sequential phases, aimed at guaranteeing not only the production of high-quality technical inputs, but also their institutional appropriation at the regional and national levels. Phase 1. Documentary review, internal interviews and institutional diagnosis This phase will aim to generate an understanding of the institutional, programmatic and operational context of Habitat for Humanity in relation to economic empowerment and its link to housing. The consultant should conduct a thorough review of institutional strategic documents, existing programmatic frameworks, projects under implementation or recently completed, lessons learned, and relevant evaluations in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. It will also be required to conduct semi-structured interviews with key staff from the UTC, Area Office (AO) and country offices, including programmatic, technical and leadership teams, in order to identify current practices, approaches used, existing capacities, technical gaps and opportunities for convergence between housing and economic empowerment. The diagnosis should include a comparative analysis of the programmatic strengths, technical capacities, existing strategic alliances and comparative advantages of each country in the Northern Triangle and the subregion, and serve as a basis for the design of the subregional programme framework. Phase 2. Programmatic Framework Design and Theories of Change Based on the findings of Phase 1, the consultant will lead the process of designing the Regional Programmatic Framework for Economic Empowerment Action Framework. This phase will include the definition of the conceptual approach, guiding principles, expected results and strategic lines of intervention, ensuring explicit integration with the housing sector and other relevant programme areas such as climate resilience, youth and gender equity. The consultant should develop one or more theories of change that clearly reflect how economic empowerment interventions contribute to sustainable outcomes in households and communities. The process should be participatory, incorporating feedback spaces with the UTC, AB and country teams to ensure institutional coherence and operational viability. Phase 3. Development of operational methodologies and tools In this phase, the consultant will need to translate the programmatic framework into concrete operational methodologies that can be implemented by the teams in the three countries. This includes the development of approaches, models and practical tools related to, for example, income generation, employment, entrepreneurship, market linkages, financial services, productive capacity building or other economic empowerment mechanisms relevant to the Habitat mandate. The methodologies must be clear, replicable, adaptable to different territorial contexts and aligned with existing institutional capacities. The products in this phase are expected to go beyond conceptual guidelines and offer practical tools for everyday use by technical teams. Phase 4. Development of project profiles and positioning guidelines This phase will be aimed at strengthening the capacity for institutional positioning and resource mobilization. The consultant must develop profiles of strategic economic empowerment projects, with a regional focus and the possibility of adaptation at the national level, which reflect the defined programmatic framework. Each profile should include clear objectives, intervention approach, target population, expected outcomes, principal components, and a preliminary cost logic. In addition, the consultant should propose positioning guidelines that guide the UTC and country teams on how to present and articulate economic empowerment to donors, strategic allies, and other key stakeholders, ensuring narrative and programmatic coherence. Phase 5. Validation, training and institutional ownership The final phase will focus on ensuring the effective ownership of the programmatic framework and the tools developed. The consultant should facilitate validation processes with the UTC and national offices, incorporating final feedback into the outputs. It will also have to design and execute training processes aimed at the technical teams of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. These trainings must be carried out in person in each country, with a duration of 5 days and will be aimed at strengthening the understanding and practical application of the programmatic framework of action, methodologies and project profiles. Food expenses during the workshop will be covered by Habitat for Humanity. The consultant must cover their travel and lodging and food expenses. The objective of this phase is to leave installed capacities that allow national teams to implement, adapt and scale economic empowerment as a transversal programmatic axis in their respective contexts. 6. EXPECTED OUTPUTS The consultancys outputs should reflect a high t Tender Link : https://reliefweb.int/job/4203736/diseno-del-marco-de-accion-programatico-de-vivienda-y-hogares-productivos-guathonesv
