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Thammasat University’s Cross-sectoral Dialogues on SDGs in 2022

In 2022, Thammasat University initiated and participated in at least two cross-sectoral dialogues specifically on the SDGs.

  1. Thailand Sustainable Development Forum: July 26, 2022

The first event was in Thailand Sustainable Development Forum 2022. SDG Move, Thammasat University was one of the organizers of the event, along with International Health Policy Foundation and SDSN Thailand. The event was held on July 26, 2022 at Pullman King Power Hotel, Bangkok. This event was co-organized, co-hosted and partnered by several academic institutions and international organizations, such as UNDP, World Bank and WHO. It focused on reframing SDGs into more integrated transformation themes, and creating multi-stakeholder platform to explore the underlying driving factors for SDG implementations, using a conceptual framework developed by SDG Move and IHPP, called “System Diagnostic Framework for SDG Implementation”.

The forum consists of several parts. The keynote speeches were given by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, and the President of the National Social and Economic Development Council. The following session was a public forum where public, political, and civil society stakeholders participated. The panellists include the director of the National Institute for Child and Family Department, Mahidol University; the director of Think Forward Center under the Move Forward Party; the deputy director of PMU-B, a research granting agency; the president of the sub-committee on Baan Munkong project and land management, a representative from CSO sector; and secretariate of Bio-Thai Foundation, an NGO.

You can see the quotes and photos from the event in the links below.

Quotes: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0gLDQ6GtRqpw8c1f7kQ8XMbButgrXBJiWtPRF5uxwVBeWvnFoBSVftGo5xiNhRACzl&id=1802365030020696&mibextid=cr9u03

Photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3320461101544407&type=3

2. SDG Move’s Public Seminar on “From SDG washing to SDG enabling”: September 22, 2022

This public seminar was hosted by SDG Move, Thammasat University, and joined by panellists from academic institutions, a social enterprise and a civil society organization, on September 24, 2022, to discuss one of the major concerns on SDGs, the “SDG Washing”. The panellists include the following organizations.

  • The Managing Director of Sal Forest co,ltd.;
  • The director of the Northen Development Foundation, an NGO;
  • The founder of Hand Social Enterprise, a social enterprise tackling the corruption problem.

The panel addressed several examples of SDG washing and tried to identify the causes of such actions. The SDG washing is not only prevalent in the private sector but also in the public sector. A few of them, however, tried to SDG wash. The others are rather unaware of how to implement the SDGs properly. The panel proposed that to avoid the allegation, an organization needs to prioritize an act to reduce harmful consequences from their actions before any other CSR activities.

Quotes: https://www.facebook.com/1802365030020696/posts/pfbid02UhQQGmUr21A7SQATdpxEjUGC4o4WfUYHoceJpppdUmaZgCBeCuRY3CkiXXBHWoxnl/?mibextid=lOuIew

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The SDG-Foresight project for the Thailand SRI Strategic Plan

From March to June 2020, SDG Move undertook policy-focused research for Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI), an organization under the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation. It was the analysis of data and the design of future scenarios to support the science research and innovation plan. TSRI wants this development plan to be the catalyst of change that would steer Thailand to progress more sustainably and inclusively along the line of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The research was conducted at two levels, namely national and regional level. Foresight (i.e. Horizon Scanning and Delphi) was used as the research methodology. Data collection was conducted online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the national level, the SDG Move research team did the horizon scanning by reviewing secondary data related to all SDGs from national and international data source, as well as scanning social signals appearing in social medias and news. Then 60 experts were selected and asked to do adapted Delphi surveys. The surveys were conducted two rounds. The first round was to verify the critical sustainability issues found from the Horizon Scanning. The second round was to prioritize the issues, using two main criteria namely the level of importance and the level of policy readiness.

Moreover, SDG Move also worked with 6 regional teams, using the same methodology, to obtain each region’s crucial sustainability challenges, as well as to assess knowledge stock and gap for these challenges. The findings were used as inputs for TSRI strategic plan for budget year 2021.

Please see the report here:

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SDG Move phase II

SDG Move, under Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, was operating as a Strategic Research Issue (SRI) Unit number 14 on SDGs for Thailand Research Fund (TRF), one of the largest granting agency at the time. The role for SDG Move as SRI unit was to follow the implementation and academic progress regarding SDGs both at national and global level, and specify areas in which TRF should grant research fund.

In the period between 2018-2019, SDG Move focused the areas of research grant on the theme of Localizing SDGs as well as base-line research on SDG 3, 6, 10, 11 and 17. It also analyzed the Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI) strategic plan for budget year 200 against the SDGs. It is found that the TSRI strategic plan for budget year 2020 was quite imbalance as the plan was focusing on economic policies.

Please more details on SDG Move here, and its official website here.

Please the report of SDG Move phase II here:

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The Development of Monitoring and Evaluation System for the Promotion of Sustainable Consumption and Production in Thailand: Phase 2

In 2019, Thammasat University, by Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University (through Thammasat University Research And Consultancy Institute (TURAC)), received a funding for the project “The Development of Monitoring and Evaluation System for the Promotion of Sustainable Consumption and Production in Thailand: Phase 2” from Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP). This phase-2 project studied the calculation methods of SDG12 indicators, created, improved, and augmented the existing database to enable the importation, evaluation and monitoring of the selected SDG12 indicators.

The five selected indicators are the followings: 12.1.1 Number of countries with sustainable consumption and production (SCP) national action plans or SCP mainstreamed as a priority or a target into national policies; 12.4.2 Hazardous waste generated per capita and proportion of hazardous waste treated, by type of treatment; 12.7.1 Number of countries implementing sustainable public procurement policies and action plans; 12.8.1 Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development (including climate change education) are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment; 12.B.1 Number of sustainable tourism strategies or policies and implemented action plans with agreed monitoring and evaluation tools.

This study was conducted by a team of scholars from Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, Srinakarinwirot University, and Chulalongkorn University.

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Thammasat University Collaborating with ONEP in the Revision of the Thailand SCP Roadmap

In October 2020, Office of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP) published the first revised version of Thailand Sustainable Consumption and Production Roadmap. This revision is a collaboration between Thammasat University and ONEP.

The purpose is to incorporate SDG 12 indicators as well as the related Master Plan for the National Strategy (2018-2037) into the previous version of the Roadmap which was drafted and implemented before the completion of the Master Plans of the National Strategy. Moreover, the revised roadmap was also designed to show more interconnectedness between sustainable consumption and sustainable production, i.e. all SCP sectors need to work together to achieve the SCP-related SDG goals (meaning SDG 12 and other related goals such as SDG 2 on food system, SDG 11 on building and constructions, SDG 4 on education for sustainable development and SDG 8 on sustainable tourism).

Asst. Prof. Chol Bunnag from Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, and Director of SDG Research and Support Programme was working in collaboration with ONEP team and other stakeholders.

Please see the Revised SCP Roadmap below:

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