During my years with the Danish Institute for Parties and Democracy (DIPD), one of the very intersting partners was the Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy. BCMD was one of the first genuinely independent and outspoken civil society organisations established in Bhutan in 2008, when the small Kingdom in the Himalayas embarked on a journey of democratic transition, making it the youngest democracy of its time.
When DIPD started to work in Bhutan in 2011, BCMD was an obvious choice for a...