Integrated Childcare Advisory Package
The Good Care Blueprint
Highlights
Bhutan has made commendable progress in child survival and development. However, emerging challenges ranging from mental health and family stress to violence, nutrition, and digital risks underscore the need for a coordinated, whole-of-society response that goes beyond services alone. Children’s growth and wellbeing depend not only on access to services but equally on the care, protection, and nurturing they receive at home and within their communities. Parenting practices, family relationships, and social norms play a critical role in ensuring that children grow up healthy, safe, and confident.
The Integrated Childcare Advisory Package (ICCAP) – The Good Care Blueprint, jointly developed by the Ministry of Education and Skills Development, the Ministry of Health, and UNICEF, represents a shared national commitment to strengthening these foundations. It offers harmonised, evidence-based, and culturally relevant guidance on health, nutrition, mental wellbeing, protection, and digital safety across the life course.
By consolidating diverse parenting programmes, ICCAP ensures that families receive consistent, reliable, and trusted guidance to support childcare and positive parenting practices across all platforms of engagement.
