Mafalda Duarte visits Bhutan, 2024 | GCF UNDP Partnership

Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), Mafalda Duarte was in Phangyul, Wangdue Phodrang district recently to see firsthand how a new climate-resilient piped irrigation, installed by the government in partnership with UNDP and GCF ended the community's longstanding water crisis, helping restore fallow lands and lost livelihoods. "It's really transformational,” she says of the changes brought about by the irrigation scheme.