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Request for quotation: Local Economic Development and Urban Socio-Economic Profiling for Qena City in Egypt consultancy service. Description The local economic development (LED) and urban socio-economic analysis consultancy attain two main aims. Firstly, it aims at formulating a local economic development strategy of Qena City through a participatory and inclusive process following the UN-Habitat strategy. In that regard, setting the participatory formulation process and the process itself is important as the produced strategy. Hence, documenting the process and its lessons learned are very important. Moreover, it ensures the alignment between socioeconomic and urban plans. Furthermore, it aims at contributing to the creation of an enabling environment for local economic development, while focusing on three issues, land titling, and property registration process, building permits delivery process, ensuing mixed-use principle in the project’s urban plan. Secondly, it aims at conducting urban socio-economic analysis and provide a recommendation that assures that the project’s urban planning interventions and plans take into consideration and respect the culture, habitus, and life patterns of the landowners, tenants, and tentative future inhabitants. UNITED NATIONS HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PROGRAMME (UN-HABITAT),