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Community Organizations Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation
Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation
Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation
Non-profit organization
Phone number
+975 2 339 861

Location

Genyen Lam
Thimphu
Bhutan
Working languages
English

We are the world’s first environmental trust fund, established in 1992 as a collaborative venture between the Royal Government of Bhutan, United Nations Development Program, and World Wildlife Fund. An endowment of US$20 million was set up as an innovative mechanism to finance conservation programs over the long term in Bhutan. Donors to the trust fund include the World Wildlife Fund and the Global Environment Facility, the governments of Bhutan, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland.

In May 1996, the trust fund was legally incorporated in Bhutan under Royal Charter. Today, it is an effective conservation grantmaking organisation autonomous of the government. The trust fund is governed by the Royal Charter of 1996 and a high-level Management Board that was fully Bhutanised in May 2001. The day to day business is conducted out of a small secretariat.

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Evaluation of Sustainable Land Management and Innovative Financing to Enhance Climate Resilience and Food Security in Bhutan

Reports & Research
November, 2019
Bhutan

Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation (BTFEC) in collaboration with National Soil Service Centre (NSSC), and Gross National Happiness Commission (GNHC) has undertaken the Evaluation and Learning (E&L) activity with financial support from Climate Investment Funds (CIF) for the project ‘Evaluation of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) and innovative financing to enhance climate resilience and food security in Bhutan’.