Bhutan 2020: A Vision for Peace, Prosperity, and Happiness.
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Abstract
The present vision statement sets out directions that will enable Bhutan to retain its commitment to its distinctive model of development. This vision statement is a strategic document. Given its 20-year perspective, it can be neither a blueprint nor a plan in the conventional sense of a document that specifies in detail the objectives to be achieved and the instruments to be used to attain them.
The overarching goal of the vision 2020 is to ensure the future independence, security, and sovereignty of the kingdom.
This vision is guided by six main principles: identity, unity and harmony, stability, self-reliance, sustainability, and flexibility.
In order to eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, priority will be given to the rapid expansion of access to potable water and safe sanitation. Both will remain key components in the approach to achieving sustainable development in the health of the population and addressing such problems as diarrhea and skin infections which figure prominently in the nation’s morbidity profile and which have been linked to the unsatisfactory hygienic situation that still prevails in large parts of the nation.
Regarding the reduction of the rural poverty, the kingdom plans to increase farm incomes that can be invested in rural areas to create off-farm employment and promote rural industrialization. Both will offer employment alternatives to work in the RNR sector in rural areas as well as contribute to the economic diversification of rural economies. In addition, the vision has identified Horticulture as an area in which Bhutan possesses clear regional and seasonal comparative advantages in the cultivation of both temperate and sub temperature fruit and vegetables. It has been accorded priority in this vision as means of raising the cash incomes of farmers, generating export revenues and for achieving an improvement in the nutritional status of the rural population.
To increase the resilience of livelihoods to disasters, high priority will be accorded to institutionalizing capacities for conducting environmental impact assessments (EIAs). These must be applied to a wide range of projects, in order to evaluate their likely impacts on the environment. EIAs are a particularly important means for helping to ensure that: (i) adverse environmental, economic, cultural, and social impacts of development projects are minimized, (ii) environmental impacts on ecologically fragile systems receive prior evaluation, (iii) the effects of development pressures on the natural resource base, as well as on communities and culture are made the subject of systematic assessment. In addition, the vision accord high priority to the preparation of a management plan for the Wang Chu watershed and seeks to reduce the losses of biodiversity in the future through ecologically more sensitive approaches to the forestry management.
In the context of governance, the document calls upon all officials of the Royal government, other development actors, and partners, and the people of Bhutan to work together in translating the vision presented in this document into concrete reality.
The overarching goal of the vision 2020 is to ensure the future independence, security, and sovereignty of the kingdom.
This vision is guided by six main principles: identity, unity and harmony, stability, self-reliance, sustainability, and flexibility.
In order to eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, priority will be given to the rapid expansion of access to potable water and safe sanitation. Both will remain key components in the approach to achieving sustainable development in the health of the population and addressing such problems as diarrhea and skin infections which figure prominently in the nation’s morbidity profile and which have been linked to the unsatisfactory hygienic situation that still prevails in large parts of the nation.
Regarding the reduction of the rural poverty, the kingdom plans to increase farm incomes that can be invested in rural areas to create off-farm employment and promote rural industrialization. Both will offer employment alternatives to work in the RNR sector in rural areas as well as contribute to the economic diversification of rural economies. In addition, the vision has identified Horticulture as an area in which Bhutan possesses clear regional and seasonal comparative advantages in the cultivation of both temperate and sub temperature fruit and vegetables. It has been accorded priority in this vision as means of raising the cash incomes of farmers, generating export revenues and for achieving an improvement in the nutritional status of the rural population.
To increase the resilience of livelihoods to disasters, high priority will be accorded to institutionalizing capacities for conducting environmental impact assessments (EIAs). These must be applied to a wide range of projects, in order to evaluate their likely impacts on the environment. EIAs are a particularly important means for helping to ensure that: (i) adverse environmental, economic, cultural, and social impacts of development projects are minimized, (ii) environmental impacts on ecologically fragile systems receive prior evaluation, (iii) the effects of development pressures on the natural resource base, as well as on communities and culture are made the subject of systematic assessment. In addition, the vision accord high priority to the preparation of a management plan for the Wang Chu watershed and seeks to reduce the losses of biodiversity in the future through ecologically more sensitive approaches to the forestry management.
In the context of governance, the document calls upon all officials of the Royal government, other development actors, and partners, and the people of Bhutan to work together in translating the vision presented in this document into concrete reality.
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