Thailand has been affected by COVID-19, like other countries in the Asian region at an early stage, and the first case was reported as early as mid-January 2020. Thailand’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been guided by the “Integrated Plan for Multilateral Cooperation for Safety and Mitigation of COVID-19”. This paper analyses the health resources in the country and focuses on the response through community-level public health system and legislative measures. The paper draws some lessons on future preparedness, especially with respect to the four priorities of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the end, the paper puts some key learning for future preparedness. While Thailand’s response to COVID-19 has been effective in limiting the spread of the disease, it falls short at being able to address the multiple dimensions of the crisis such as the economic and social impacts. The socioeconomic sectors have been hardest hit, with significant impact on tourism sectors. Sociopolitical system also plays an important role in governance and decision-making for pandemic responses. The analysis suggests that one opportunity for enhancing resilience in Thailand is to strive for more multilevel governance that engages with various stakeholders and to support grassroots and community-level networks. The COVID-19 pandemic recovery is a chance to recover better while leaving no one behind. An inclusive long-term recovery plan for the various impacted countries needs to take a holistic approach to address existing gaps and work towards a sustainable society. Furthering the Health Emergency Disaster Risk Management (HEDRM) Framework may support a coordinated response across various linked sectors rather than straining one particular sector.
This paper presents the ‘Kin Dee You Dee’ (Thai for ‘Eat well, live well’) toolkit, which comprises three sets of serious games aimed at facilitating discussions and transformative learning on resilience to urban low-income communities. The first stage of the toolkit creates awareness of key concepts related to resilience, the second stage allows participants to map individual and community assets and identify risks associated with them, and the final stage encourages participants to reflect upon potential threats and to create a strategic plan in response. The study examines the toolkit’s potential in increasing meaningful community engagement and participation, and enhancing disaster risk awareness through the application of the toolkit in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region and Udon Thani province, which are areas that are highly exposed to climate risks. This paper presents the concepts, development and application of the ‘Kin Dee You Dee’ toolkit, concluding that it is a useful tool that can allow policymakers and other involved stakeholders in city development projects to engage with communities and increase risk awareness.
This paper explores how organised urban communities in Bangkok are planning for and responding to environmental and other crises, to identify approaches to fostering more sustainable, inclusive and resilient urban development. Lower-income residents may not have access to support systems such as disaster insurance, so being able to use existing assets can offer an opportunity for successful coping and adaptation strategies to future shocks. The study explores what actions are taken by lower-income residents to cope and adapt using their individual and collective assets in response to current and future hazardsespecially in contexts where social capital is strong from a history of collective slum upgrading. It shows that such asset-based approaches can be an entry point for cooperation between these communities and other stakeholders, including local government, local NGOs and others, and there is scope to further strengthen asset-based adaptation approaches through legal and institutional measures.
In the world of increasingly complex and dynamic variables, the requirement to solve the right problem takes precedence over solving the problem right. Facility Management (FM), the emerging 21th century profession addressing the need of the age focused upon clarity, human understanding and the science of organization of information, is a multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary profession. FM draws on theories and principles of “people”, “processes”, and “places” of organizations rather than serving cost-cutting competencies and downsizing of organizations only. Considering the national crisis, Facility Management is a valid and sustainable remedy as a tool not as the ultimatum. It would be better recognized and gradually accepted to Thai style of working. Through collective reviews and analyzing some concepts of resource management, the requirement of Facility Management within today’s social contexts, and the principles of Facility Management are introduced in this article. A view of rapidly developing professional field of Facility Management is introduced and referred to its related aspects focusing on the concept of today’s workplace and tomorrow’s workspace to arouse public awareness to become more conscious about what is really happening around individuals.
Public participation in the development of urban resilience can help create cities that are not only more sustainable but also more fair and inclusive. However, incorporating public inputs in the planning process is difficult for urban practitioners. This article explores the researchers' attempt to develop and utilise a board game as a tool for consolidating urban and social resilience and flood management planning in Bangkok, outlining the challenges and shortcomings that had to be overcome with each revision during the designing process, and the outcomes. The experience suggests that board games, whose development should be an evolving process based on research, could be used as an effective deliberative tool for knowledge exchange, transformative learning and gathering inputs for policymaking.
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