In Numbers 314 farmers and local government officials consulted for development of agriculture resilience plans for Zhemgang, Sarpang and Trongsa districts Emergency logistics preparedness standard...
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Using social behaviour change to promote healthy diets among children and adolescents, March 2024
Healthy diets The Bhutan Nutrition Strategy and Action Plan (2020–2025) seeks to improve the nutritional status of schoolchildren and adolescents, including those in monastic institutions, through...
Informing national school feeding and nutrition policies and strategies in Bhutan, March 2024
In Bhutan, WFP partners with the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD), the Ministry of Health (MoH), and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) to create an enabling...
Strengthening supply chain capacity in Bhutan, March 2024
By empowering national responders and promoting collaboration and partnerships among stakeholders in Bhutan to address potential logistics constraints, WFP aims for effective humanitarian assistance...
WFP‘s Bhutan country strategic plan (2024-2028)
WFP‘s country strategic plan (2024-2028) is anchored in Bhutan‘s draft 13th Five-Year Plan (2024-2029), and guided by the priorities ofthe United Nation‘s Sustainable Development Framework...
Building resilient food systems in Bhutan, March 2024
Using a resilient food system and a demand-led agriculture value chain approach, WFP aims to support Bhutan’s national pathways for food systems development in key areas to expand investments and...
WFP Emergency preparedness and response in Bhutan, March 2024
Bhutan is located in one of the most seismically active zones in the world. The country is also highly prone to floods, forest fires, landslides, urban fires, and glacial lake outburst floods...
WFP Bhutan: Annual Country Report 2023 - Country Strategic Plan 2019 - 2024
Key messages WFP reaffirms its support to Bhutan, aligning its Country Strategic Plan (2024-2028) to the Government's draft five-year plan (February 2024-February 2029) Capacity strengthening is the...
WFP Bhutan Country Brief, February 2024
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...
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...
World + 60 more
WFP Global Operational Response Plan 2024, Update #10 – February 2024
This report provides an analysis of food security and evolving needs and an update on WFP’s response and priorities. The convergence of multiple crises – conflict, extreme climate patterns and...
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People and Planet: Addressing the Interlinked Challenges of Climate Change, Poverty and Hunger in Asia and the Pacific
Introduction The impacts of climate change in the Asia-Pacific region threaten to undo hard-won gains in sustainable development that countries have made in recent decades. Climate change is putting...
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...
Nepal + 8 more
UNICEF South Asia Regional Humanitarian Situation Report No. 2 for 1 January to 31 December 2023
HIGHLIGHTS In 2023, South Asia experienced natural disasters, political crises, public health emergencies and conflicts. Earthquakes hit Afghanistan and Nepal, requiring emergency responses. Three...
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...
Afghanistan + 22 more
Asia and the Pacific Seasonal Monitor, November - December 2023
HIGHLIGHTS HAZARDS Bangladesh and Fiji were hit by cyclones in November. About 10,000 people were displaced in Bangladesh and 230,000 were affected in Fiji. Heavy rains caused floods in India,...
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...
Afghanistan + 7 more
Humanitarian Action for Children 2024 - South Asia Region
Appeal highlights Approximately 80 million people, including more than 35 million children, are projected to need humanitarian assistance in South Asia in 2024 due to sudden-onset, cyclical and...