Highlights • The Executive Board approved WFP’s country strategic plan (CSP) 2024-2028 for Bhutan on February 28. • A team from WFP and the Health and Wellbeing Division under the Ministry of...
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GIEWS Country Brief: Bhutan: 13 March 2024
FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Below‑average cereal output obtained in 2023 Cereal import requirements projected to continue to increase in 2023/24 marketing year (July/June) Prices of wheat flour at high...
Bhutan country strategic plan (2024–2028)
Operation ID: BT03 CSP approved at EB February 2024 session. After several decades of economic growth, the Kingdom of Bhutan graduated from the category of least-developed country in December 2023...
WFP Bhutan Country Brief, January 2024
Highlights WFP presented the Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2024-2028 to Ambassador Tenzin R Wangchuk, Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bhutan in Geneva on 30 January. An organizational alignment of...
Bhutan: Logistics Cluster Q4 2023 Preparedness
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WFP Bhutan Country Brief, December 2023
Highlights • WFP presented its new country strategic plan (2024-2028) for Bhutan to the Royal Government of Bhutan and UN stakeholders on 21 December. The new CSP will be presented to the Executive...
WFP Bhutan Country Brief, November 2023
Highlights • Capacity strengthening was carried out in areas of disaster preparedness and response, school nutrition and climate-resilience farming for key frontline agencies, select schools’ staff...
Evaluation of Bhutan WFP Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023
The evaluation was conducted between April 2022 and December 2022, to inform the design of the next country strategic plan (CSP). It covered activities implemented from 2019-July 2022, as well as the...
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ADB to Help Strengthen Climate Resilience in Hindu Kush Himalayas
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (3 December 2023) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today launched a new initiative to help assess and manage climate and disaster risks in the Hindu Kush Himalaya...
WFP Bhutan Country Brief, October 2023
Highlights • In partnership with relevant government agencies WFP continued its training programme on school feeding management, carried out a survey on knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP)...
WFP Bhutan Country Brief, September 2023
Highlights • WFP launched the project ‘Building Resilient Commercial Smallholder Agriculture’ (BRECSA) which will support resilient production systems, strengthened value chain coordination and...
GIEWS Country Brief: Bhutan : 29 September 2023
FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Below‑average cereal production forecast in 2023 mostly due to shortage of agricultural inputs Cereal import requirements projected to continue to increase in 2023/24 marketing...
Bhutan launches a new $8.9M project to build climate resilience of its water sector
Thimphu, 3 September 2023 – Bhutan launched a new $8.9 million project- supported by the Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Countries Fund (GEF-LDCF) and UNDP- to address water shortages...
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No Mountain High Enough: Assessing Geohazard Risks Using Satellite Technology in South Asia
MASATSUGU TAKAMATSU & ABHAS JHA In the breathtaking terrains of South Asia, where soaring mountains and high-altitude communities coexist, the menace of landslides and their catastrophic aftermaths...
WFP Bhutan Country Brief, August 2023
Highlights WFP and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock conducted two workshops and had discussions about the progress and the way forward for the Adaptation Fund large innovation grant...
Disability inclusion high on mountain kingdom’s agenda
People living with disabilities in Bhutan are ready to ‘come forward and speak with our own voice’ as part of the Himalayan Kingdom’s effort to strengthen inclusive disaster risk reduction measures. ...
WFP Bhutan Country Brief, July 2023
Highlights WFP and the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) launched a multi-media campaign to spread key messages on healthy eating. WFP and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock...
The Government of Bhutan and WFP launch project to strengthen smallholder farmers’ resilience
THIMPHU - The Royal Government of Bhutan and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), in partnership with the International Fund for Agriculture (IFAD) today launched a US$13 million five-year...
Two WHO supported medical oxygen plants inaugurated in Bhutan
Thimphu, Bhutan Two oxygen generator plants were today inaugurated in Bhutan with an aim to strengthen health systems resilience and enhance emergency preparedness and response capacities across the...
Bhutan: Logistics Cluster Q2 2023 Preparedness
Please refer to the attached Infographic.