Request for proposals for HLP Consultancy Service. Those wishing to apply should send this certified advertisement on each page with a separate technical and financial offer attached before 11:59 P.M on Thursday 30/04/2026 in a sealed envelope addressing the name of the advertisement and name of the service provider to the headquarters of Afaq Shababia Foundation located in the governorate of Aden - Khormaksar - District - Aden Hotel tour - International Bank of Yemen building - Apartment 36 or send via the following email:
[email protected] The project is based on three main outputs: 1- Strengthening civil justice and addressing land and property issues. 2- Promoting gender-responsive justice. 3- Expanding comprehensive protection for vulnerable groups. Through the project, the ASF team will facilitate with the Project Joint Committee (JC) to select a pilot site (a specific neighbourhood or area) for implementing participatory housing, land, and property (HLP) interventions based on community engagement and local empowerment. This aligns with The Voluntary Principles for Responsible Governance of Usership (VGGT), ratified by the Republic of Yemen in 2012, which emphasize people-centered, equitable, and phased interventions. Site selection is a crucial step in mitigating potential risks during implementation, particularly the risk of uncovering underlying conflicts or infringing on informal but legitimate usership rights of vulnerable groups. This necessitates a thorough, in-depth approach to ensure high-quality documentation and community trust. To achieve this, the ASF project team will work directly with the JC to develop precise technical and social criteria for site selection. These criteria will include the nature of existing conflicts, the level of community acceptance, womens participation, accessibility, security environment, and the feasibility of pilot implementation without causing harm. Based on these criteria, teams will conduct brief field visits to a number of candidate neighbourhoods to gather preliminary data through interviews with residents, observe conditions on the ground, and monitor indicators of property tension and community willingness to cooperate. Following the assessment, a concise report will be prepared, including a shortlist of two or three proposed sites. This report will be submitted to the Joint Committee (JC), which will discuss the options, assess the risks and benefits of each site, and then issue a formal decision selecting the pilot site. This decision requires written approval from all relevant stakeholders on the JC, including local authorities, the General Authority for Lands, community representatives, and women, to ensure shared commitment and both community and institutional consensus. After the decision is adopted, residents will be briefed on the scope of the pilot, its objectives, and the safeguards in place to prevent harm. This activity aims to develop a people-centred, inclusive, and participatory system for documenting Housing, Land, and Property (HLP) rights in the selected pilot location. The lack of accessible and reliable rights records is one of the root causes of land disputes in Yemen, contributing to recurrent tensions, forced evictions, and overlapping claims. In alignment with The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) modelendorsed globally as a pro-poor and gender-responsive land governance toolthe project will operationalize a participatory enumeration process based on four inclusion criteria: ( right types, rights holders, evidence, and technology). The activity adopts a bottom-up methodology whereby residents, especially women, play a direct role in documenting their rights, thereby increasing transparency, strengthening social cohesion, and supporting future institutionalization of rights records. The process emphasizes the inclusion of informal but legitimate usership rights (in addition to formal ownership), equitable representation of women as rights holders, acceptance of diverse forms of supporting evidence, and use of accessible mapping tools compatible with low-resource settings. In alignment with GLTN (2010), the participatory enumeration process will follow these steps: · Pre-consultation with residents to secure broad community consent, ensure transparency, and encourage participation from both poor users and formal property owners. · Co-designing an inclusive questionnaire with residents based on the four GLTN inclusion parameters (right types, rights holders, evidence, and technology), followed by pre-testing the tool to ensure clarity and contextual relevance. · Participatory selection of enumerators, with an emphasis on forming women para-surveyor teams composed of women community leaders and women engineers, working in coordination with relevant authorities. · Conducting field surveys jointly with community leaders and municipal officials. Enumerators will number each structure, document household members (husbands and wives) linked to the property, collect available evidence (documents or witness testimony), pinpoint the property on hardcopy maps, and record public service points (roads, facilities, water points, etc.). This participatory model promotes community ownership of the HLP documentation process and ensures that vulnerable groups, particularly women, have a clear pathway to secure, defend, and formalize their rights. Then the project will transform the participatorily enumerated Housing, Land, and Property rights (HLP) records from the pilot location into formally validated and jointly certified rights documentation, ensuring both institutional recognition and long-term sustainability. The co-certification process represents the integration of bottom-up community engagement with top-down institutional endorsement, reinforcing transparency, accountability, and equitable access to rights. Following the completion of the participatory enumeration mentioned above, the project will facilitate a structured joint inspection and validation process. This includes a public display period where residents can review preliminary findings and raise objections, followed by formal co-certification events led by community leaders and relevant authorities under the Joint Committee. This dual pathway ensures that HLP rights records are both socially legitimate and institutionally endorsed. Tender Link : https://yemenhr.com/tenders
