Fruits of Happiness: How Horticulture Enhances Gross National Happiness in Mongar, Bhutan
This report is a demonstration of how projects and programmes can be evaluated using the GNH index methodology. It is the result of a month-long survey in Mongar in November 2016.
༄༅། །བུམ་ཐང་ལྷའི་སྦས་ཡུལ་གྱི་བཀོད་པ་གསལ་བར་བྱེད་པ་མེ་ཏོག་གི་སྐྱེད་མོས་ཚལ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས།།
Her Majesty Royal Grandmother Ashi Kesang Choeden Wangchuck
A Promoter and Practioner of the Teachings, a Gracious Benefactor of New Temples in Bumthang, and of Temples and Hermitages mentioned in this Poem by the Omnisient Longchenpa.
HAPPINESS : Transforming the Development Landscape
Thirty years ago, the Fourth King of Bhutan famously proclaimed that ―Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product, thereby setting Bhutan on a holistic development path. Following this historic declaration, Bhutan developed a Gross National Happiness (GNH) Index and screening tool to evaluate all new policies, proclaiming that:
―Gross National Happiness measures the quality of a country in more holistic way [than GNP] and believes that the beneficial development of human society takes place when material and spiritual development occur side by side to complement and reinforce each other.
In July 2011, 68 nations joined Bhutan in co-sponsoring its UN General Assembly resolution on ―Happiness: Towards a Holistic Approach to Development.
A Compass Towards A Just and Harmonious Society: 2015 GNH Survey Report
The remainder of this report presents the findings of the 2015 Gross National Happiness (GNH) Survey, which collected information from across Bhutan on many aspects of Bhutanese people’s lives that relate to wellbeing measurement and analysis. The Survey was used to construct the 2015 GNH Index, and to compare levels and the composition of GNH across groups, and across the period 2010-2015.