Tenders are invited for Baseline Study of the Project: Women Leaders Struggling for Access to Land and Peace: Rural Women, Catalysts for Sustainable Peace on Land in Haiti. Closing Date: 20 Jun 2025 Type: Consultancy Themes: Gender/Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding/Protection and Human Rights CONTEXT AND RATIONALE: In recent years, political, security, and socioeconomic crises in Haiti have severely challenged all efforts in all sectors. They continue to negatively impact the building of lasting peace in the country. The lack of social cohesion increasingly diminishes Haitians ability to withstand climate risks, disproportionately affecting at-risk rural women and young men and women aged 18 to 34 (ARRWY). In rural areas, women and young women working in agriculture, pastoralism, or fishing are exposed to high levels of uncertainty and violence, while institutional fragility hinders the implementation of effective climate change policies (UNCT, 2023). The link between fragility, climate, and gender inequality exacerbates vulnerability, with human rights violations increasing by 333% between 2018 and 2019 (BINUH, 2021), particularly the incidence of gender-based violence (HRW, 2018). Land insecurity and complex land use patterns, particularly mining, pose an additional risk of forced evictions for communities. The National Agricultural Development Policy and the Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy do not represent at-risk rural women and youth (ARRWY), who remain excluded from natural resource management (NRM) policymaking. Women represent only 2.7% of parliamentarians (IFAD, 2022) and 8% of mayors. Restrictions on womens actions stem from rigid cultural beliefs. While 45% of Haitian households are headed by women (UN Women, 2021), less than 5% of Haitis land is registered in the land registry, and approximately two-thirds of rural land is not officially owned. While 20% of men own land in rural areas where agriculture is the dominant sector, only 8% of women do (World Bank, 2023). Displaced persons and migrants returning from the Dominican Republic, seeking land rights, have also caused violent tensions with host communities in the South and Northeast departments, particularly in Ouanaminthe, Ferrier, and Capotille (CA, 2023). In Camp-Perrin and the South department, land conflicts are primarily due to inheritance disputes. Lack of knowledge of land inheritance rules and misunderstandings between power holders, combined with a patriarchal system, prevent rural women from even taking the necessary steps to exercise their rights. In Torbeck and Chardonnières, despite their legal rights, women without land titles often lose their land and their opportunities for compensation. These dynamics have exacerbated the gendered impacts of fragility, conflict, and violence. In Aquin, rural women were attacked and forced to leave their land when men decided to occupy it. There is a lack of data on womens civic space, and early warning systems remain weak. Christian Aids 2023 consultations revealed that rural women in northeastern and southern Haiti are affected by low levels of education, dissatisfaction with governance processes, a lack of democratic consultation mechanisms, fear of violence and insecurity, and traditional social roles. Faced with this reality, which compromises the prospects for lasting peace in the country, the interventions of the project Fanm lidè k ap lite pou gen akse ak latè ak lapè: Rural Women, Catalysts for Sustainable Peace on Land in Haiti aim to address two underlying problems in Haitian society: gender inequality and debtor natural resource management (NRM), in the stabilization process and the development of a culture of sustainable peace that respects human rights in Haiti. It is with this in mind that Christian Aid, the agency behind this project financed by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), intends to carry out a baseline study in order to establish the indicators formulated within the framework of the project. [Disclaimer: The above text is machine translated. For accurate information kindly refer the original document.] Tender Link : https://reliefweb.int/job/4158631/baseline-study-project-fanm-lide-k-ap-lite-pou-gen-akse-ak-late-ak-lape-rural-women-catalysts-sustainable-peace-land-haiti
