Thammasat and Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand have agreeable to set up sandbox to find the most efficient ways to reduce overall energy consumption at Thammasat University Rangsit Campus
Please see the document here:
Tag: SDG17
MOU for Sandbox on Efficient Energy Consumption
Participatory body for stakeholder engagement for the “Best Community Welfare Fund/organization Awards”
In 2019 to January 2020, Puey Ungpakorn School of Development Study (PSDS) initiated the Award giving project: the “Best Community Welfare Fund/organization Awards”. The process for the organization of this project was operate by a participatory body for stakeholder engagement, involving partners at several levels.
The objectives of the awards were (1) to give a recognition and admiration for the outstanding community welfare fund/organizations; (2) to strengthen the network and the organizations using the Awards as a kind of experience sharing platform: and (3) to increase public awareness on the social welfare policies in accordance with Puey Ungpakorn ideas.
The partner organizations include Foundation for Thailand Rural Reconstruction Movement Under the Royal Patronage, the National sub-committee for the promotion of community fund, the National Community Fund Network, Moral Center, Community Organizations Development Institute, and Ministry of Social Development and Human Security.
The awardees received funding to strengthen their community welfare fund. For running this program, the participatory process was divided to 3 levels, provincial level, regional level, and national level. It involved so many multi-stakeholders to promote and support program.
PSDS has been a part of the National sub-committee for the promotion of community fund since 2016, providing academic support and research to the committee. Asst. Prof. Jitti Mongkolchaiaranya, the dean from 2016-2020, had been a member of the committee and brought PSDS and its expertise into the sub-committee since.
Please see the detail of the award here:
Service Learning Policy: Engaging local stakeholders for university education and SDGs
Since 2014, Thammasat University though Academic Affairs Department has promoted “service learning” approach in the university education by providing a special funding to support faculties who want to initiate service learning course. Under this funding guideline, it requires faculty substantial engaging with communities and stakeholders to the teaching and learning process.
In 2019, the university support 100,000 – 300,000 baht for the approved service learning courses. The amount of the funding is based on the size of the project. At the end of the year, the university gives awards to projects that are proved to be sustainable, efficient, participatory, and engaging several external partners.
Please see the university’s policies and regulations on service learning:
APTU and IIED research collaboration on Urban Resilience (2017-2018)
In 2017-2018, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Thammasat University and International Institute for Environmental Development, UK, collaborated in a research project “Planning For Eco-Cities And Climate-Resilient Environments: Building Capacity For Inclusive Planning In The Bangkok Metropolitan Region (PEACE-BMR)”, funded by Newton Fund Institutional Link (British Council and Thailand Research Fund).
According to the project website, “[t]his collaboration aims to strengthen research links between the UK & Thailand to develop existing research capacity on urban climate resilience & inclusive, low carbon development. The collaboration will do this through building capacity of Thai researchers, raising awareness of urban stakeholders & incorporating local knowledge & practice into urban planning. This will equip urban actors with the skills and networks to address environmental & climatic issues facing Bangkok, with a specific focus on ensuring the inclusion of particularly vulnerable, low-income communities.”
Please see more detail here: http://www.urbanfuturestu.com/what-we-do/urban-resilience-2/iied/
Urban Futures & Policy Lab joined UKNA in the SEANNET program
From 2017-2020, Urban Futures and Policy Lab, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University participated in the four-year initiative of Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA) on research, teaching, and dissemination of knowledge on Asia through the prism of the city and urban communities in the program called the Southeast Asia Neighbourhoods Network (SEANNET), funded by the Henry Luce Foundation (New York, USA).
According to the Urban Futures’ website,
“The program supports the development of contextualized knowledge on the spatio-human environment of neighborhoods in six select Southeast Asian cities through participative field-research, in situ policy roundtables, local capacity building exercises, academic conferences, publications, documentary films and new syllabi.
The aim of this micro-local framework of scholarly and civic engagement is to generate alternative, generalisable paradigms on city neighborhoods. The second ambition of the programme is to shape and empower a community of early career scholars and practitioners working on/from Southeast Asia who will contribute to the growing body of humanistically informed knowledge on Asian cities.”
Asst. Prof. Boonanan Natakun from Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University is the researcher from Urban Futures and Policy Lab, and contributed one of the six case studies in this project. The six case studies included Mawlamyine in Myanmar; Chiang Mai and Bangkok in Thailand; Manila in the Philippines; Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam; Surabaya in Indonesia. Asst. Prof. Boonanan contributed the case of “Wat Kae Nang Leong”, Bangkok Thailand.
Please see the website for more details of the case studies and the project.
The Southeast Asia Neighbourhoods Network (SEANNET): An Interdisciplinary Regional Program Where Local City-Making Knowledge Can Shape Urban Studies
https://ukna.asia/projects/wat-kae-nang-leong-bangkok-thailand
16th IAVE Asia Pacific Volunteer Conference
On November 11-15, 2019, Thammasat University collaborated as a partner organisation in organising the 16th IAVE Asia Pacific Volunteer Conference, the hosts of which were International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) and Volunteer Spirit Network (VSN). Other partner organisations included Volunteer Service Overseas (VSO), Khon Thai Foundation, and Why I Why Foundation.
The conference was organised under the theme “UNLOCKING THE POWER OF VOLUNTEERING”, under which there were 5 sub-themes
- Make the Invisible Visible: Presenting case studies and research that highlight power of community participation and ownership and the changes that sustain in the community
- Simple but not simpler: Sharing inspiring practices when dealing with challenges and how to overcome them.
- Stronger together: Driving a powerful conversation where global and local leadership organisations for volunteering, NGOs, corporations, government, civil society and academia join to help shape the kind of future we want for volunteering and how all sectors can work together to realise that future.
- Flipping SDGs Conversation: Discussing how we can encourage and provide accessibility to people from all levels to engage in volunteerism. Also, what does ‘leave no-one behind’ mean for volunteering today? – how is volunteering reaching into the lives of the poorest people.
Please see the detail of the event here: http://iaveap2019.org/
Please see role of Thammasat University here: http://iaveap2019.org/about-us/
The 51st batch of Graduate Volunteer Programme by Puey School of Development Studies (PSDS)
In 2019, Puey School of Development Studies (PSDS) cooperated with academic institutions and civil society organisations (CSO) in offering field sites for the “Graduate Volunteer” students. The class of 2019 is the 51st batch of the long-running and first-of-its-kind Graduate Volunteer Programme, offered by PSDS, Thammasat University.
The three organisations partnering with PSDS are the followings:
- Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (Public Organisation)
- Voluntary Service Overseas: VSO International
- Thai Health Promotion Foundation
The 13 sites cover provinces from the North (Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lumphun, Phayao (2)), the West (Kanchanaburi and Tak (2)), the Northeast (Khon Khaen and Surin), and the South (Surat Thani, Nan, Nakorn Si Thammarat).
The Graduate Volunteer Programme is one-year programme. The students spend 3 months for course work, 7 months for field studies, and 2 months for writing the thesis. It was established by Prof. Dr. Puey Ungphakorn in the late 1960s. This programme has been adopted by several universities all over Thailand.
See related documents here:
Programme website: https://www.psds.tu.ac.th/?fbclid=IwAR3-psLiYJ5oRxuestkZhcfbwRZFOe6_wotDU2n3Eaj1Sd2y8cAOkdY2pm4
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.
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:
The Thai translation of the comic “The Planet and the 17 Goals”
SDG Move contacted Margreet de Heer, a Dutch author, and got an approval for the translation of the comic “The Planet and the 17 Goals”, which is the cooperation between UNICEF, PCI Media, World’s Largest Lesson, PVBLIC, and Reading with Pictures. The comic was released for the first time in English version in September 2015, and was then translated into several languages around the world.
SDG Move team translated the comic and published via SDG Move website and facebook page in July 2020. It can be accessed via the link below. It has been well received by Thai audience especially Thai teachers who want to teach SDGs to their pupils.
Link to comic: https://www.sdgmove.com/2020/07/21/the-planet-and-the-17-goals-thai/