GNH Screening Tool

GNH screening tool has been developed as a framework for conducting a systematic appraisal of the potential effects of proposed policies and projects on key GNH determinants. Every policy or project originating from different government agencies be assessed against a set of key determinants of GNH. Only those policies and projects that passed the assessment will be approved. 

The tool will obliged the policy makers to consider relevant dimensions of GNH, and whether a particular policy or project will impact GNH negatively. The tool will help the government agencies break the narrow sector walls and reduce externalities one sector is going to pass into another, and more importantly GNH. It will force the sectors to acknowledge areas where potential effects are not known and penalizes the policy and project accordingly. This consequently will support a holistic approach to policy development. The tool will also provide a vehicle for a number of participants from different  technical and occupational backgrounds to work towards a consensus about policy impacts.

40 pages
ISBN: 978-99980-35-4
Publication Year: 2008