Bhutan

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Turning our experience into knowledge helps us, our partners and others to up-scale proven  practices and adapt them to new contexts. We constantly validate and leverage the use of knowledge.

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Celebrating 25 years in Bhutan!

In this Year of the Water Snake, SNV is celebrating our silver jubilee in Bhutan.  From July in 2013, with our government and local partners and team, we will be looking back together at 25 years of working in partnership.

Bhutan Biogas Project to build 1,600 plants in 2 years

Started in 2011, the SNV supported Bhutan Biogas Project aims to build capacity of the public and private sectors to construct and operate 1,600 biogas plants in four districts in the next two years. 

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Increasing production, employment & income opportunities

SNV helps farmers to access markets and improve their products, increasing incomes for the rural poor. This involves focusing on: 

  • Off-Season Vegetables 
  • Non-Timber Forest Products
  • Cooperative Sector Development

Ensure access to improved sanitation and hygiene

SNV in Bhutan works in both rural and urban contexts to ensure ACCESS FOR ALL to:
 
  • Improved sanitation and hygiene
  • Market driven sanitation supply chains
  • Innovative behaviour change communication

Focusing on improved sanitation and hygiene

Thimphu's Mayor Kinlay Dorjee endorses a strategy to improve sanitation and hygiene.

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Former PM Bhutan and SNV CEO

Former Prime Minister of Bhutan H.E Jigmi Y. Thinley is a member of SNV's International Advisory Board since 2009.

Bhutan kicks-off NTFP cultivation

Training on non-timber forest product nurseries increases income opportunities.
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Latest news

Providing improved septic tank management

17 June 2013

Households in Bhutan depend on septic systems as an affordable and safe option for the treatment and disposal of sewage.

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Farmer Groups supplying to 21 Schools

22 April 2013

The Vegetable Value Chain Programme for the East (VVCP-East) has made considerable progress in linking to schools: to date 18 farmers groups – 733 households - have signed supply contracts with 21

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The impact of NTFP auctioning on gendered benefit sharing

1 April 2013
SNV Bhutan together with the Social Forestry & extension Division (SFED) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF) conducted a gender and poverty analysis study of NTFP
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Celebrating women in sanitation

7 March 2013
Celebrating the role of women in promoting sanitation on International Women’s Day, Asia 2013
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Bhutan

SNV has had a presence in Bhutan since 1988, and has been working closely with the Royal Government of Bhutan and other local development actors to bring a social and behavioural change in the following three sectors:

 
Country Director

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Poverty is still far from being eradicated in Asia. SNV in Bhutan is highly dedicated to the implementation of programmes, aligned to the development plans of the Royal Government of Bhutan, to bring down poverty and as well develop people's capacities to decide on their own future."
 
SNV Bhutan Country Office
Langjophaka, ThimphuSNV Bhutan Office 
Bhutan, PO Box. 815
Ph.   +975 2 322900
Fax: +975 2 322649
M: +975 17141341
Skype: rschinkel

 

 

 
 

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Langjophaka, Thimphu
Bhutan, PO Box. 815
Ph.   +975 2 322900
Fax: +975 2 322649
E.      bhutan@snvworld.org
 

 

 

 

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