Deadline: 31-Mar-2022
UN-Habitat Lebanon has launched a call for proposals to contract a competent non-governmental organization (NGO) to support in the implementation of the Project entitled “Beirut Housing Rehabilitation and Cultural and Creative Industries Recovery”.
The collaboration will mainly involve the implementation of Component 1 (Resilient Housing Recovery Reconstruction) of the Project that focuses on the rehabilitation of moderately and severely damaged residential buildings and on technical assistance provided to families on rental support.
The selected NGO will contribute to conducting evidence-based work including outreaching to the local community, identification of vulnerable households in a long-list of pre-selected damaged housing units affected by the Port of Beirut (PoB) explosion, raising awareness about the project activities with beneficiaries and multiple stakeholders, addressing housing and property legal disputes and facilitating the implementation of activities under the aforementioned component.
Resilient Housing Recovery Reconstruction
This component aims at supporting the return of the displaced socially vulnerable households to the targeted buildings. As such, the component is divided in two subcomponents to contribute to this goal:
- Residential housing rehabilitation.
- Technical assistance for rental support.
The housing rehabilitation and the rental technical assistance subcomponents will be implemented as integral parts of the overarching housing recovery strategy and action plan adopting a social stability-sensitive approach to provide assistance through an area-based lens and developed as a separated activity.
Main Activities and Outputs
The IP is responsible to undertake the following, but not limited to, key activities:
- Support in reaching out to tenants of the preselected buildings for the project, approximately 60 buildings.
- Develop the list of families, including their basic information and contact details, to help in communicating with targeted families throughout the project implementation process.
- Map the relevant active stakeholders who might engage in/impact project implementation.
- Validate, through field testing, socioeconomic and legal assessment questionnaires developed by UN-Habitat. Recommend changes based on the outcomes from the field testing.
- Compile data and supporting documents related to the socioeconomic conditions of targeted families as well as to the legal status of tenancy, using questionnaires provided by UN-Habitat. Collected data will be stored in a database platform created by UN-Habitat, and it will be owned and managed by UN-Habitat.
- Support in the verification and validation of gathered data, including any field gap-filling.
- Introduce project details, process, and work plan to beneficiaries, ensuring regular exchange of information throughout the project.
- Facilitate the signature of lease agreements between owners and tenants where applicable, based on Lebanese laws and regulations and as advised by the Legal Advisor assigned by UN-Habitat.
- Conduct individual and/or group meetings to facilitate negotiations between owners and renters and help resolving legal disputes as advised by the Legal advisor.
- In collaboration with the Legal Advisor, prepare awareness raising materials and conduct sessions on the rights to adequate housing targeting tenants, (I) NGOs, and public institutions.
- Provide logistical support to conduct awareness-raising sessions on housing and property rights and on other topics targeting beneficiaries.
- Take part in the discussions on the housing recovery strategy. This involves meeting with different stakeholders to advice on existing challenges and gaps.
- Facilitate meetings and consultations with the beneficiaries/stakeholders.
- Support in the signature of consent forms by residents for housing rehabilitation.
- Keep records of meetings, consultations, awareness sessions, etc., implemented with the tenants and owners in two languages (Arabic and English) and share with UN-Habitat as appropriate.
- Support UN-Habitat in disseminating project materials to the stakeholders, through a set of communication tools.
- Coordinate with UN-Habitat for the implementation of the grievance and redress mechanism (GRM), ensuring timely referral of concerns, complaints or suggestions raised by the tenants, owners and/or stakeholders. This has to be done in compliance with the provisions of the Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS).
- Ensure proper communication between the project team and the beneficiaries throughout the project lifespan.
Funding Information
Maximum proposed value in USD: 170,000.
Geographical Focus
Towns/Cities: Medawar, Rmeil, Achrafieh and Saifi cadastres – Beirut.
Outcome of the Project
Nearly 31 moderately and severely damaged residential buildings are rehabilitated, and 160 most vulnerable affected families have access to return to their housing units damaged by the PoB explosion.
Eligibility Criteria
- Legal status
- Certificate of registration/incorporation, i.e.
- Proof of registration in Lebanon.
- Proof of country operational presence.
- Organization profile and details
- Organization’s vision, mission and objectives.
- Management structure.
- Members of the Governing Board and their designations duly certified by the corporate secretary, or its equivalent document.
- Proof of membership to professional associations if any.
- Financial capacity
- Audited company financial statements (balance sheet and income statement) and auditors report for the last two years.
- Exclusive bank account
- The organization must be willing and able to have a separate bank account for the funds provided by UN-Habitat.
- Integrity and governance
- The organization should complete and submit a signed Partner Declaration Form.
- The organizations should provide the profiles of the Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Head of the Organization and Chief of Finance.
- The organization will ensure all workers and contractors sign code of conducts and ESS policies.
For more information, visit https://unhabitat.org/calls/supporting-community-mobilization-and-outreach-for-the-reconstruction-of-housing-units