Given its strategic location at the heart of Southeast Asia, Thailand’s primary challenge is ending the statelessness that comes with its bordering nations1. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports that Thailand has almost half a million stateless people, making it an essential country for statelessness reforms. Due to a lack of documented…
Civil society organizations (CSOs) working on HIV/AIDS initiated a discussion mapping joint resource mobilization efforts with the government and other sectors to end HIV/AIDS epidemic in Thailand. This mapping activity aims to equip key policymakers on using data analytics for informed decision making. Results are set to help government sector, NGOs, or CSOs working directly…
In 2012, more than 14,000 people were killed on the roads of Thailand. Government statistics reports that road accidents are the second-leading cause of death among children; an alarming data which could have been prevented with one simple solution – wearing helmets. Save the Children Thailand in partnership with SUPA71, Co., Ltd. is working on…
The fight for child rights may need more working together, and small fragmented initiatives can do so much more. In Thailand, civil society organizations (CSOs) are challenged by a number of problems making sustainability a central issue among CSOs. While technical capacities and support from the government abound at their advantage, more CSOs are focused on…
April of this year, nearly a million migrant workers were registered at the Labour Ministry of Thailand. Among them, more than 570,000 are Burmese, about 340,000 Cambodians, and around 60,000 are Lao. This prompted the Thai government to implement stricter measures to ensure their safety, security, and welfare at all times. While policies to protect…
This February 2016, Save the Children (SC) and ten other agencies meet with Thailand’s Office of Basic Education Commission (OBEC) to discuss the implementation of the recently released Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) Framework presented at the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Japan. SUPA71, Co., Ltd, as part of its engagement…
Although, most civil society organization (CSO) in the Lower Mekong Basin region have enough technical capacities in various areas of their work, innovative approaches, such as the use of information communication technologies (ICTs) to engage multi-sectors, are still yet to be harnessed. On 13-15 August 2015, 19 CSO representatives from Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Thailand…