[Ngo-admin] Consultancy service: RFP Initiatives to Increase Protection of Women’s Land Rights in VN

[Nguyen Thuy Nga]

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

UNDP Viet Nam invites qualified Vietnamese NGO, research centers or institutes, university’s training centers/clinics to submit proposal for carrying out initiatives and good practices to increase protection of women’s land rights in particular and more broadly to promote greater transparent and equitable treatment for land holders in Viet Nam.

Equality between women and men has been guaranteed in all of Viet Nam’s Constitutions since 1945. This has been concretized in many of Viet Nam’s laws which relate to protection of property rights, including (1) 2005 Civil Code provides for marital property to be jointly owned between husband and wife; and (2) 2003 Land Law requires all land use rights certificates in relation to the property of married couples to be issued in the names of both husband and wife. In practice, the existence of gender prejudice, gender inequality, weak implementation and enforcement of laws are hindering the realization and protection of women’s land rights.

The studies and researches on gender, development and current state of landholding in Viet Nam, including the recent UNDP-commissioned research “The Exclusion of Women’s Access to Land” reinforce the common knowledge about the diversity of situation which prevents women’s equal land rights being enforced in Viet Nam. The main obstacles contain the inconsistence of the laws and its interpretation, the kinship practices in patrilineal groups, the difficulty of accessing legal services, the sentiment-grounded conciliation practices, and the inferior gender attitudes and social constructions.

In order to promote greater gender equality in landholding, the research’s key recommendations stress the need for
-              sensible outreach programs to raise both women and men to be conscious about their legitimate rights;
-              a mechanism for grass-root conciliation to adhere more on reasoning and less on social coherence;
-              more accessible legal services to the poor and women;
-              more opportunities to education for ethnic and poor women;
-              less inconsistence and ambiguities in the law, and greater transparency and accountability in land governance;
-              practical mechanisms to enable land-users to claim equitable land rights.

 Ensuring that the research’s recommendations can be put into practice and used to inform strategic priorities for the Government, and international development partners in future programming, UNDP Viet Nam invites qualified Vietnamese NGO, research centers or institutes, university’s training centers/clinics to submit proposal for carrying out initiatives and good practices to increase protection of women’s land rights in particular and more broadly to promote greater transparent and equitable treatment for land holders in Viet Nam.

Full solicitation documents can be obtained by visiting UNDP website at:

http://www.undp.org.vn/detail/get-involved/undp-opportunities/undp-opportunities-details/?contentId=4600&languageId=1

Interested bidders are invited to send (i) Proposal Submission form, (ii) Technical proposal and (iii) Financial proposal in separate PDF files with title “RFP for Initiatives to Increase Protection of Women’s Land Rights in Viet Nam“ to:

Email: procurement.vn at undp.org<mailto:procurement.vn at undp.org>, Procurement Unit, UNDP Viet Nam

Deadline for submission: 13 December 2012, 05.00 p.m (Ha Noi time)
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