Initiated in June 2012, the LAND Project seeks to strengthen the resilience of Rwandan citizens, communities and institutions and their ability to adapt to land-related economic, environmental and social change.
Building the capacity of Rwandan institutions to produce high quality, evidence based research on land is a critical part of reaching this goal.
Solid, empirical research is fundamental to the identification of needed policy changes in the land sector and also to validate policies and laws that are already contributing to stronger citizen resilience and improved livelihoods.
From September 24th to 26th, the LAND Project held a multi-stakeholder workshop to identify key, policy-relevant research priorities on land.
Drawing from a list of 58 research themes submitted in advance of the workshop, participants collaborated to distill this down to three research priorities that would receive LAND Project support during the first year:
1. Inheritance and succession law and practice in relation to land rights: A gender perspective;
2. Land use consolidation: environmental and socio-economic impacts, and
3. Assessment of the determinant factors of land market value.
Subsequently, LAND Project sought the views of several GoRs institutions whose mandates intersect with these research priorities to help inform that development of draft technical Terms of Reference for each theme.
This RFC seeks to elicit comments from all interested parties on the draft Terms of Reference developed by the LAND Project and informed by the views of key policy-making institutions.
Comments will be taken into consideration in finalizing the TORs for incorporation into a formal Requests for Proposals (RFPs).
If you are interested in receiving a copy of one or more of the draft TORs for the themes above, please send a request to LAND Project Senior Research Advisor, Alfred Bizoza at [email protected].
Comments on the draft Terms of Reference must be received no later than 16h30 on Friday, 26th October.
They should be sent via email to the attention of the LAND Project Chief of Party, Anna Knox, at: [email protected] and [email protected].
Comments received after this deadline will not be considered.
The LAND Project will not respond to questions about the tender. Please note that this is NOT a request for submission of proposals.
Any proposals sent to the LAND Project prior to issuance of an RFP will not be considered.
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