The Green Public Procurement Project in Bhutan is funded by the European Union under the Switch Asia Program. The objective of the project is to develop a cross sectoral strategy for sustainable industrial competitiveness (GPP Bhutan) and establish a strategic approach to scale-up public demand for environmentally and socially preferable goods, services and infrastructure.

The GPP project aims to provide a cross-cutting industrial strategy to support Gross National Happiness and ‘The Middle Path’, which together form the core of Bhutanese development priorities.

1. Objectives
   The project aims to implement GPP practices in Bhutan, enabling the procurement cycle to be used as a driver for green growth. It seeks to:
   1. increase the positive environmental, social and economic multipliers of public consumption
   2. provide an incentive for sustainable production among suppliers, particularly SMEs
   3. and build demand-side and supply-side capacity to write and respond to GPP tenders.
2. Main Activities
   1. Develop policy recommendations on GPP in Bhutan;
   2. Develop dedicated GPP guidance material for public procurers;
   3. Design preferential programmes for SMEs and disadvantaged suppliers;
   4. Design and facilitate GPP training sessions for public procurers and suppliers;
   5. Mentor real-time GPP pilot tenders in selected industrial sectors; and
   6. Provide for long-term GPP implementation by establishing a GPP knowledge platform and curricula.

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is a Canadian-based, public policy research institute that has a long history of conducting cutting-edge research into sustainable development. The institute is a non-partisan, charitable organization specializing in policy research, analysis and information exchange. Through its head office in Winnipeg, Manitoba and its branches in Ottawa, Ontario; New York, NY; and Geneva, Switzerland IISD applies human ingenuity to help improve the wellbeing of the world’s environment, economy and society. IISD is undertaking a three-and-a-half-year project in Bhutan, funded by the European Union, that seeks to develop practical approaches to scale up government demand for environmentally and socially sustainable goods, services and infrastructure. The Green Public Procurement in Bhutan (GPP-Bhutan) project will provide a cross-cutting industrial strategy to support Gross National Happiness and the “Middle Path,” which together form the core of Bhutanese development priorities. The GPP-Bhutan project seeks to:

1. increase the environmental, social and economic multipliers of public consumption;
2. provide an incentive for sustainable production among suppliers, including SMEs; and
3. build demand-side and supply-side capacity to write and respond to GPP tenders

http://www.iisd.org

CSCP is an international nonprofit whose focus is the promotion of sustainable patterns of consumption and production (SCP). Since its inception, the CSCP has played an important role in working along with United Nations’ Member States towards a more sustainable future, focusing more recently on the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals set out in 2015.

The Collaborating Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production catalyses change through a collaborative and inclusive approach along the following areas of expertise: Products & Services, Cities & Infrastructure, Policy, Lifestyles & Behavior, and Business & Entrepreneurship. http://www.scp-centre.org

The BCCI was established as a non-government and non-profit making service oriented organization in 1980 under the Royal Command with a traditional role of augmenting and supplementing the efforts of the Royal Government towards development of a formal private sector. However, due to a weak private sector base, lack of members voluntarism, deplorable resources in terms of human skills and budgetary fund coupled with lack of insight on management of such an institution, the Chamber remained dormant from 1985 till mid 1988.

It was again under the Royal Command that the BCCI was reinvigorated in May 1988 as a potential partner for nation building, following a Royal Audience granted to the representatives of the business community by His Majesty the Fourth King.

To achieve its cherished mission, the BCCI has on its agenda, a broad range of function services. Some of these services include representation both in the national and international forums, networking & linkages, business information services, training & other skill develop programs, membership development, business referral services and sustainable enter development services. The BCCI provides linkage between the government and the privates and works closely with all the government agencies, autonomous organizations and international organizations and donor agencies towards facilitation and promotion of trade & industrial development in the kingdom.

Towards this front, strengthening of the institutional capacity to become a better partner for the royal government for shaping enabling environment for the development of the Bhutanese private sector has been the key approach of the BCCI to respond to the ever-increasing expectations of its members and stakeholders.

The BCCI, as a development facilitator, has always endeavored towards working not in confrontation but in close collaboration with different agencies.

http://www.bcci.org.bt/about-us/

The Royal Institute of Management (RIM), established as the country’s apex management training institute, has been mandated to “impart, promote and improve professional knowledge and skills in management and public administration in both public as well as private sector in the nation” towards complementing the achievement of our national goal. The institute was established in 1986 and was incorporated as an autonomous institute in 1990 under the Royal Charter with a Board of Directors as its governing authority.

As the only Government management Institute, RIM has been solely engaged in supporting the human resource development need of the country, especially for the civil service. RIM’s intervention in the national human resource capacity building was primarily through training, research and consultancy activities.

http://www.rim.edu.bt/