Support to the judiciary of Bhutan 2009-2013



Contract partner: GNHC / RGoB - Gross National Happiness Commission - Royal Government of Bhutan Country: Bhutan Funding amount: € 1.000.000,00 Project start: 01.07.2009 End: 28.02.2015

Short Description:

Overall goal


Under the initiative of the GNH Commission, the Royal Government of Bhutan together with Austria, Denmark, UNDP and UNCDF have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in support of a partnership for Good Governance in 2008. This MoU is intended to increase harmonization of the partner's activities as well as aligning their activities to national priorities described in Bhutan's 10th Five Year Plan.


The overall goal of this project is to ensure equal access to conventient, timely and equitable judicial services. This goal will be reached by


1. training judicial and administrative staff as well as judges (inside the country as well as abroad).

2. Sustainability of these training measures will be ensured by applying ToT methods (Training of Trainers) as well as funding a Judicial Training Academy.

3. Furthermore physical access to justice will be improved by by building, equipping and inaugurating district courts in Bumthang and in Trongsa.


The project is jointly financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC (CHF 2.5 million), the Austrian Development Agency ADA (EUR 1 million = CHF 1.5 million) and the Royal Government of Bhutan (BTN 17 million = CHF 400,000).

project number 2586-00/2009
source of funding OEZA
sector Staatsführung & Zivilgesellschaft, allgemein
tied
modality
marker
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    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
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  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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