OSF Team Visits BCMD

YI Training Participants visit to Parliament House

The Youth Initiative Training participants visit Parliament House on 20th Jan. 2017.

Stakeholders Meeting with Paro Community Date: 11th January 2017

Stakeholders Meeting with Paro Community Date: 11th January 2017 Venue: Hotel Holiday Home, Paro     The stakeholders meeting between Paro community and BCMD was held at Hotel Holiday Home,...

The Fourth Youth Initiative, Winter session

Press Release Youth Initiative for Research, Dialogue and Deliberation 15th-21st January 2017 Media Lab, YDF   Programme Coordinator: Tshewang Lhamo Programme Officer Phone No.326606/327903 Bhutan Centre for Media and...

Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy receives the National Order of Merit

His Majesty the King recognised the work and importance of civil society on the national day through a National Order of Merit Award for CSOs. 22 CSOs and 1 religious...

Winter Community Mapping; One-day Forum, Paro. December 6, 2016

The community in Paro comes together to discover assets in Paro and challenges, and how to collectively come up with ideas to deal with such challenges. A most cited...

Podcasting workshop: Engaging and Sharing Youth Voice

BCMD’s efforts to inspire active citizens through youth engagement has seen positive outcomes over the years. Mapping exercises at Paro and Thimphu, setting up of community radio at Taktse...

Youth Leadership Training

“Youth are the solution — not the problem! ” The Youth Leadership Training at Paro College of Education provided platform for about 45 youths from Thimphu and PCE to...

Updates from the final day of Youth Initiative’s Summer Training

The youth representatives met with the Youth Initiatives’s (YI) steering committee on the final day of the training to discuss the way forward. Youth representative and the steering committee...

Summer Forum Visioned for Paro 2025

Locals, local leaders, representatives from the police, MPs and youth gathered at the Tashi Namgay resort in Paro to vision for Paro 2025.  The one day Summer Forum on...

Youth Summit 2016 ‘for a positive youth society’

Youths can lead, care and enact positive change in the community if given a platform. The summer Youth Summit 2016 provided platform for about 90 youths from across the...

Message from UN Resident Coordinator on International Women’s Day, March 8th

“In his message for the International Women’s Day, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calls for action: “The world will never realize 100 per cent of its goals if 50 per...

International Democracy Day: Space for Civil Society

Democracy Day this year is being commemorated internationally on 15 September.  This year, the United Nations has chosen the theme “Space for Civil Society” to mark the contributions of...

Connecting Community through youth engagement

Civil society organisations (CSOs) have been making headway in initiating community development and community engagement projects in Bhutan. With the youth comprising 60 percent of the population, the potential...