Civil society / NGO

Bhutan Youth Development Fund (YDF), incl. Innovate Bhutan

About the organisation

National youth organisation working with young people across 20 districts on education, skills, wellbeing and entrepreneurship. Its Innovate Bhutan institute trains and supports young social entrepreneurs.

Initiatives (6)

Institutional programmeAwaiting owner confirmation

Youth Innovation Fund

A fund for youth-led social enterprises within Innovate Bhutan's wider enterprise support. Innovate Bhutan is seeking fund-management expertise and larger investment to capitalise it.

Institutional programmeAwaiting owner confirmation

My Gakidh Village programme

Green skills for young people as custodians of environmental conservation, helping them build businesses and livelihoods that address poverty, while closing skills gaps for GMC.

Institutional programmeAwaiting owner confirmation

KidsMBA: Innovating Happiness

An eight-day social entrepreneurship programme for children aged 11 to 15 across the country, who design enterprise solutions to local challenges through the lens of GNH.

Institutional programmeAwaiting owner confirmation

Mindfulness (Temple) Entrepreneurship

Teaching social entrepreneurship to monks across five dzongkhags through iSprint, a five-day innovation sprint, connecting spiritual practice with business methods.

Institutional programmeAwaiting owner confirmation

Innovate Bhutan

Training 200 young social entrepreneurs through iSprint and iStart, mentoring more than 20 new founders or teams, and connecting more than 350 people through the Friday Friends networking series.

Anchor initiativeAwaiting owner confirmation

Social Enterprise Association of GMC/Bhutan

A sector body anchored in GMC to co-design the legal and regulatory recognition of for-benefit enterprise, build sector capacity and funding access, and broker market access.