UNDP Bhutan

22/04/2026

🌎 Reminder:

Our Mother Earth is crying for action.

Melting glaciers, oceans choking on plastic, rising temperatures, wildfires, floods and collapsing biodiversity are urgent warnings we can’t ignore.

This Earth Day and every day, let’s choose restoration over destruction to heal and work together to heal our planet 💚 🫶

21/04/2026

📣📣📣We’re seeking:
🧑‍💻👩🏻‍💻International Consulting Firm
⁉️Developing Sustainable Disclosure Framework and Guidelines for Bhutan.
🗓️ ⏳Closing Date: 06 May 2026
⛓️‍💥Apply now: https://go.undp.org/Tfn

21/04/2026

📣 Application closes in 3 days!

👩🏻‍💻 Apply now or by Thursday, 23 April 2026!

🔗 https://www.undp.org/bhutan/news/call-proposals-0

📣 Calling CSOs and CBOs in Bhutan 📣

💡 Do you have an innovative idea to tackle climate change, address environmental challenges and advance biodiveristy conservation?

🔍 Explore GEF Small Grants Programme's latest call for proposals to secure upto USD 50,000 in funding support.

⛓️‍💥Apply now: https://www.undp.org/bhutan/news/call-proposals-0

🗓️⏳Applications close on 23 April 2026!

GEF-Small Grants Programme is implemented by UNDP in partnership with the Royal Government of Bhutan.

17/04/2026

What happens when women come together to design solutions for challenges they face every day?

From 8–10 April 2026, that question came alive at the Women’s Hackathon 2026 in Thimphu.

Hosted by the Department of Employment and Entrepreneurship under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment in partnership with UNDP, the hackathon welcomed 83 women from across Bhutan to design innovative after-school childcare solutions.

Over three days at the Startup Centre in Changzamtog, Thimphu, ideas turned into prototypes, and strangers quickly became collaborators. Through workshops, mentoring, and long hours of discussion, participants designed solutions rooted in lived experience, care, and practicality.

Two ideas stood out:

🏆 ZangToen Care Hub
A structured after-school childcare and transport service designed to give parents peace of mind and children safe, reliable care. The team bagged a prize of Nu 500,000.

🥈 AumNyamro (Astral)
A peer-to-peer childcare exchange model built on trust and community support among working mothers, earning Nu 200,000 in prize money.

Both teams will now continue their journey with six months of incubation support in partnership with Impact Hub Thimphu.

More than a competition, this was a space where women shaped solutions for a challenge that affects them the most.

This initiative was made possible through the project, "Accelerating support for quality and inclusive soical protectio, managed migration and employment systems in Bhutan", funded by the Joint SDG Fund.

The project supports the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions, and is a partnership between UNDP, UN Bhutan, UNICEF Bhutan and the World Bank.

17/04/2026

📣📣📣We’re seeking:

🧑‍💻👩🏻‍💻National Consulting Firm

⁉️Development of National Guidelines for Climate Resilient Planning and design for the Five Major Urban Infrastructure systems in Bhutan.

🗓️ ⏳Closing Date: 30 April 2026

⛓️‍💥Apply now: https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_negotiation.cfm?nego_id=44559&_gl=1*1lp1elu*_ga*MTQ2MzEyMjE5Mi4xNzc2Mzk3NTQ1*_ga_PBF14M9C6G*czE3NzYzOTc1NDUkbzEkZzEkdDE3NzYzOTc1NDkkajU2JGwwJGgw

15/04/2026

♿️ 🦯 What does it take to build public services that leave no one behind, including persons with disabilities? Why does it matter?

🎙️ 🇧🇹 Join the Dagana Dialogue Series to learn from Dagana district’s experience.

✍️ 🔗 Register now: https://undp.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DRyeBlB4QIaGCfhW-IU14Q #/registration

⁉️ The Dagana Dialogue Series is a three-part knowledge-sharing initiative, bringing together Bhutan, Ethiopia and Thailand to exchange experiences in disability-inclusive and people-centered public services.

🤝 🫶The collaboration stems from the “Incluisve and Future Smart: Transforming the Public Sector for Improved Service Delivery” project, supported by UNDP’s Global Funding Window partners—the Governments of Denmark 🇩🇰, Luxembourg 🇱🇺 and the Republic of Korea 🇰🇷.

🇹🇭 In the next Dagana Dialogue Series, Thailand will share its experience in advancing inclusive development by enhancing participation of persons with disabilities in urban systems and community life.

🇪🇹 The third dialogue will see Ethopia highlight its experience in designing user-centric public services, showing when we design with users in mind, we build a world that works better for all.

15/04/2026

15/04/2026

Global Conscious Food Systems Summit Kickoff Highlights | A glimpse of what’s to come

“What we witnessed today is truly inspiring.”

A global community beginning to come together — to reimagine food systems not as production lines or markets, but as living systems shaped by values, consciousness, and collective responsibility.

Mohammad Younus, Resident Representative UNDP, captured the tone of the moment.

This was the beginning.
An opening. A signal.

The real shift, the one capable of shaping the future of food systems, will take place in Bhutan.

From 31 August to 4 September 2026, the Royal Government of Bhutan, the Conscious Food Systems Alliance, and UNDP will co-host the first-ever Global Conscious Food Systems Summit.

Register to join this landmark summit: https://www.consciousfoodsummit.com/register-summit

03/04/2026

⚖️👩‍⚖️🕊️As one of the few women in private legal practice in 🇧🇹, Lawyer Sonam Yangden highlights a critical gap.

"We don't talk enough about equal representation in the justice sector, but gender equality matters here as much as anywhere, if not more.”

02/04/2026

🌈 🏳️‍🌈Do you know someone advancing + equality in your community or around the world?

Nominate them for the 2026 , organized by UNDP & ILGA World.

Awards will be presented in five categories:

✨ Movement building in the face of hostility
✨ Celebrating diverse lives
✨ Emerging leader
✨ Lifelong pursuit of equality
✨ Extraordinary ally

Nominations open until 📆 17 April ⛓️‍💥https://internationalprideawards.org/en/nominations/

01/04/2026

🔔 Ask Me Anything Session 🔔

❓ Join our Ask Me Anything (AMA) session to learn more the Investment and Development of Distributed Solar PV Projects.

🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏰ 3:00 -5:00 PM

The call for a non-binding Expression of Interest is open. Apply now: https://www.moenr.gov.bt/?p=16070

This is an initiative of the Department of Energy, Ministry of Energy & Natural Resources in collaboration with UNDP, UNDCF and Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation.

It is supported through the project, "Accelerating Decarbonisation: Closing the Energy Gap through Martket-Driven Solar Power Solutions,” funded by the Mitigation Action Facility.

01/04/2026

Food systems sit at the heart of today's pressing challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss and inequality.

These challenges cannot be solved by technology and innovation alone.

It demands shifts in mindsets and in values.

The first Global Concious Food Systems in Bhutan from 31 August to 4 September, 2026, seeks to activate the heart of global food systems transformation.

Don't miss the chance to be part of this cricual global effort to shape a more sustainable food future.

Register here: https://www.consciousfoodsummit.com