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...
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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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LDCF and SCCF provide new targeted support for vulnerable states
The Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) will deploy $63 million in urgent funding for countries on the frontlines of climate change following a meeting of the...
6 ways Bhutan is building better food systems - from farm to table
How farmers, schools and digital innovations come together with WFP and the Government to strengthen food systems The Land of the Thunder Dragon is also a land of contradictions. Although over 60...
WFP Bhutan Country Brief, July 2021
Highlights July marked the start of the Food Systems Summit Dialogue process. WFP also made progress in the decentralized evaluation of its agriculture portfolio and started the mid-term review of...
Climate Risk Country Profile - Bhutan
KEY MESSAGES • While data are limited, historical records indicate an increase in annual temperatures of just under 1°C over the 20th century in Bhutan, with daily minimum temperatures increasing at...
WFP’s support to Climate Resilient Agriculture and Food Systems in Bhutan (2019-2023)
1. National Priorities for the Agriculture Sector In the 12th Five Year Plan (FYP) 2018-23, the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB) has drawn strategies to promote commercialization, agribusiness...
$14.8 Million from World Bank to Help Bhutan Manage Climate and Disasters Risks
THIMPHU, May 20, 2020 − The Royal Government of Bhutan and the World Bank today signed a $14.8 million Development Policy Financing with Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat DDO) to help Bhutan...
GNHC and UNDP sign GCF financed project ‘Supporting Climate Resilience and Transformational Changes in the Agriculture Sector in Bhutan’
12 January 2019: The Gross National Happiness Commission (GNHC) and UNDP signed a project for which USD 25.3 million was approved by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) at its 23rd Board Meeting held in...
Bhutan pursues climate resilience with National Adaptation Plan
20 June 2019, Thimphu – Bhutan today stepped up its response to climate change with the launch of a project to advance its National Adaptation Plan focused on water. The project, to be implemented...
Coming to grips with water: How Bhutan is overcoming water challenges magnified by the onset of climate change
For Phub Zem Doya, living in the remote village of Singye in southwest Bhutan, water is a precious resource – one not to be taken for granted. In her village, climate change has led many water...
Building up Bhutan’s resilience to disasters and climate change
SUBMITTED BY DECHEN TSHERING The 2016 monsoon was much heavier than usual affecting almost all of Bhutan, especially in the south. Landslides damaged most of the country’s major highways and smaller...
National Adaptation Plan process in focus: Lessons from Bhutan
The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked least developed country (LDC) in the Himalayan Mountains, with a population of 768,577, covering an area of 38,394 km². The area is mountainous, with steep...
Grappling with climate change in the Kingdom of Happiness
For Bhutan, a tiny carbon-neutral country nestled in the Himalayas between India and China, climate change is not just an environmental problem but a serious challenge to sustainable development...
Launch of the UNDP- GEF-LDCF Project : “Enhancing Sustainability and Climate Resilience of Forest and Agricultural Landscape and Community Livelihoods in Bhutan
‘Protect landscapes to protect everything’: Bhutan announces national push for climate resiliency and conservation 11th November 2017, Thimphu: As COP23 international climate talks continue in Bonn,...
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Vulnerability and resilience: A conceptual framework applied to three Asian countries—Bhutan, Maldives, and Nepal
This paper presents a conceptual framework for the study of the vulnerability of Bhutan, Maldives, and Nepal with a particular focus on the structural vulnerability. Three kinds of vulnerability have...
Project Signing: Royal Government of Bhutan and World Bank Sign US$1.5 Million Grant to Prepare Program to Improve Bhutan’s Climate Resilience
Thimphu, March 2, 2017 — The Royal Government of Bhutan and the World Bank signed into effect today the preparation of the Strategic Program for Climate Resilience (SPCR) Grant of US$1.5 million,...
UNDP-GEF to help Bhutan look beyond the climate-environment realm
With support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Least Developed Country Fund (LDCF), the government of Bhutan is now working to reduce...
Validating the path towards community climate resilience and livelihoods
If things go as planned, by early 2017, communities in 38 gewogs across 12 dzongkhags in central Bhutan will start their journey towards climate action- climate-resilience livelihoods options and...
The climate shifts. Bhutan responds.
“If you want to action great ideas, you need to apply the strength of a Himalayan mountain.” - Bhutanese Proverb A Change in Environment Perched in the Himalayas at an average elevation of 2,220 m,...