Updates written by our field teams, newest first. Each one shows which project it comes from and which Issue that project is under.
Target communities and communities adopting the approach from Lamphun and Chiang Mai will come together to share lessons on using IP cameras, camera traps, drones and IoT-controlled sprinkler firebreaks, and to propose ways to develop and build on this work at Wat Nong Kwang, Li District, Lamphun Province.
Community representatives from the Forest Guardians Project shared first-hand experience in forest-fire management and presented community innovations at an event organised by the OIC, with support from the insurance business network.
Child Impact has updated its dashboard and project pages to show partner project outcomes using Bureau 4’s standard indicators, processed by the evaluation team. This makes it possible to see how children and families have changed, using the same set of figures across the network.
Child Impact has developed a trial LINE Official Account where teachers and child-focused workers can briefly describe a problem and immediately receive relevant resources, knowledge, stories, activities and funding sources from the Child Impact library. It has been live since 4 October 2026.
Jaidee has redesigned the experience-from-friends page to make stories easier to find and scroll through in a social media-style feed. AI also helps screen and recommend categories for more than 20,000 stories submitted by users, so the team can publish valuable content more quickly and accurately.
The Taxonomy system and AI-powered content extraction and writing mechanism, jointly designed by ChangeFusion and Kid for Kids, are now live. Child Impact synthesises issues concerning children from Kid for Kids into new articles and publishes them regularly on the platform.
ChangeFusion and the Foundation for Consumers (FFC) agreed on the scope of an 18-month project to monitor e-cigarette sellers and track consumer responses to high-risk products on social media. AI will be used to analyse data and expand the keywords to keep pace with sellers’ evasion tactics.
TSWA and ChangeFusion have officially published a summary report on the first year, covering 15 communities, 24,987 rai and 6 MOUs, with endorsements from independent marine scientists.
The projected 1-year benefit-cost ratio (B/C Ratio) assessment of all 10 top innovations found a B/C value above 1 for every innovation.
Drawing on lessons from the first year, the Project plans to expand to 15 new communities in the same four provinces, while establishing a joint working group with the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources and the Department of Fisheries to reduce systemic delays.
The event was held at Ch. Karnchang Public Company Limited. A total of 43 people from 8 partner organisations attended. Plaques and certificates were presented to 10 teams, and 3 teams were announced as recipients of scale-up funding.
The first-year summary report identifies 4 areas for improvement, from uneven understanding of LMMA and overlapping government mandates to community economic enterprises that are still at an early stage and limitations in follow-up data, with a monitoring period that is too short.
