Home | UNDP in Thailand

- UNDP to launch report on people-centered development in Asia-Pacific
  
  The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced today that it will launch its new human development report “Shaping the Future: How Changing Demographics Can Power Human Development,” on April 26 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  
  REPORT
- Promoting gender equality and ending gender-based violence against women, children and LGBTI
  
  A more coordinated, multi-sectoral response is needed to address gender inequality and gender-based violence of marginalized people in Thai society, including women, children and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people, said participants at a conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
  
  NEWS
- Small communities, Big thoughts | Water management and conservation
  
  The “Small Communities, Big Thoughts” video showcases how UNDP Thailand partnering with the Metropolitan Waterworks Authority, supports communities to address national water resource conservation problems and promote sustainable development.
  
  VIDEO
- Experts urge action on LGBTI workplace discrimination in Thailand
  
  Employment discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people is a prevalent but silent issue in Thailand, said experts at a national level meeting to discuss issues related to discrimination in the workplace.
  
  NEWS
- UNDP provides access to clean cooking solutions in northern Thailand | #VoicesofWomen
  
  In an attempt to encourage communities in Mae Hong Son province to use more energy efficient and environmentally friendly cooking and heating methods, UNDP Thailand’s Promoting Renewable Energy project in partnership with the Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency (DEDE) and the Ministry of Energy carried out an improved cook stoves (ICS) experiment. The ICS was designed to reduce fuel consumption per meal and to curb smoke emissions.
  
  RESULTS
- UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Joan Roca promotes sustainable production in Thailand
  
  While promoting sustainable production techniques to farmers in Thailand, UNDP's Goodwill Ambassador Joan Roca presents how chefs can make a difference in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals.
  
  VIDEO
- Childhood friends uplifting women affected by conflict in southern Thailand | #VoicesofWomen
  
  Childhood friends Duangsuda Srangamphai and Chehyoy Dama, originally from Thienya village, Pattani province in southern Thailand, recently established a community enterprise called Thienya Roasted Coconut to uplift the spirits of women from their village who had been affected by conflict.They received a small grant from UNDP’s Southern Thailand Empowerment and Participation (STEP) Project.
  
  RESULTS
- Commercial buildings in Thailand working towards meeting energy efficiency goals
  
  The Promoting Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings (PEECB) project, a collaboration between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency (DEDE) held its third annual seminar.
  
  RESULTS
- UNDP @50 | Fifty years of partnerships and development in Asia and the Pacific
  
  On the occasion of our 50th anniversary, UNDP is looking toward the future of people and planet. That future is uncertain. On the one hand, climate change, political turbulence, economic inequality, and other challenges. On the other hand, technological advances, tremendous economic growth, and an unprecedented global consensus about the best way forward.
  
  UNDP50
- UNDP Thailand participates at ASEAN Conference on Biodiversity 2016
  
  The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Centre for Biodiversity, in cooperation with ASEAN Member States, the ASEAN Secretariat and partner organisations, held the Second ASEAN Conference on Biodiversity under the theme “Biodiversity for Sustainable Development” on 15 - 19 February in Bangkok.
  
  CONFERENCE
- Fisherman provides employment opportunities for young people in southern Thailand
  
  Aka who is a fisherman by trade, makes the model boats to supplement his income to support his wife and six children. However, since June 2015, Aka has being imparting his boat making skills with young men in the village after receiving a small grant from UNDP’s Southern Thailand Empowerment and Participation (STEP) Project.
  
  RESULTS
- New book highlights the immense value of national parks in Thailand
  
  The new book, Parks for Life: Why We Love Thailand’s National Parks, aims to create a better recognition of, and greater commitment and support to protect the country’s rich biodiversity. The publication advocates for investing in the management of protected areas to promote inclusive economic growth that takes the real value of biodiversity and ecosystems into account in decision-making in the country’s development.
  
  PUBLICATION
- Product development training boosts livelihoods for women in southern Thailand
  
  Sai Khao Agricultural Housewives Community Enterprise, a small cooperative, which prepares, preserves and sells Garcinia received a small grant through UNDP’s Southern Thailand Empowerment and Participation (STEP) Project.
  
  results
- Small grants reducing unemployment and increasing livelihoods in southern Thailand
  
  UNDP's STEP II Project awarded small grants to eight community projects in targeted provinces in southern Thailand (Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat). The grants, generously financed by the Japan-UNDP Partnership Fund, aim to assist local communities to become more resilient amid the ongoing violent conflict in southern Thailand, through the improvement of their livelihoods.
  
  RESULTS
- UN Exhibition: Introducing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Thailand
  
  The UN SDG exhibition aims to introduce the Sustainable Development Goals in Thailand, highlight their importance for Thai people, as well as commemorate the 70th anniversary of the UN through emphasizing the partnership between UN Country Team Thailand and the Royal Thai Government. Additionally, the UN plans to bring the exhibition around the country to engage with as many Thais as possible.
  
  SPEECH
- Private sector dialogue on LGBTI workplace discrimination in Thailand
  
  Discrimination and exclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in the private sector workplace, which is widespread across the Asia-Pacific region including in Thailand, has both economic as well as human associated costs. A national executive dialogue on the business of LGBT rights in Asia jointly convened by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the International Labour Organization (ILO) and The Economist Events.
  
  EVENT
- UN and P&G; Thailand win Best Communications Campaign Award
  
  The United Nations and P&G Thailand celebrated receivership of the Best Communications Campaign Award for the My World survey campaign. The Best Communications Campaign award recognises the efforts of P&G Thailand in working with the United Nations, media outlets, and developing advertising products and tools to showcase peoples’ engagement on the post-2015 development agenda.
  
  SPEECH

About Us

In Thailand, UNDP works with the Royal Thai Government, civil society, national partners and the private sector to help find solutions to persistent development challenges. UNDP in Thailand provides technical expertise and policy advice to enhance the government’s ability to deliver public services to the population in an efficient and accountable manner, to consolidate a participatory democracy and create an enabling environment for inclusive growth and sustainable use of natural resources.

The Global Goals build on the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which the world committed to achieving by 2015. Enormous progress has been made on the MDGs, showing the value of a unifying agenda underpinned by goals and targets. Despite this success, the indignity of poverty has not been ended for all.

The Global Goals will now finish the task of the MDGs, and ensure that no one is left behind.

Latest Report

UNDP Human Development Report 2015

The 2015 Human Development Report ‘Work for Human Development’ examines the links, both positive and negative, between work and human development in a rapidly changing world of work.

Many of UNDP's relationships with countries and territories on the ground exceed 60 years. Find details on our successes and ongoing work. Visit UNDP's global website.

United Nations Development Programme in

Thailand

UNDP to launch report on people-centered development in Asia-Pacific

Promoting gender equality and ending gender-based violence against women, children and LGBTI

Small communities, Big thoughts | Water management and conservation

Experts urge action on LGBTI workplace discrimination in Thailand

UNDP provides access to clean cooking solutions in northern Thailand | #VoicesofWomen

UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Joan Roca promotes sustainable production in Thailand

Childhood friends uplifting women affected by conflict in southern Thailand | #VoicesofWomen

Commercial buildings in Thailand working towards meeting energy efficiency goals

UNDP @50 | Fifty years of partnerships and development in Asia and the Pacific

UNDP Thailand participates at ASEAN Conference on Biodiversity 2016

Fisherman provides employment opportunities for young people in southern Thailand

New book highlights the immense value of national parks in Thailand

Product development training boosts livelihoods for women in southern Thailand

Small grants reducing unemployment and increasing livelihoods in southern Thailand

UN Exhibition: Introducing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Thailand

Private sector dialogue on LGBTI workplace discrimination in Thailand

UN and P&G; Thailand win Best Communications Campaign Award

About Us

Latest Report

UNDP Human Development Report 2015

Find Us On

Empowered lives. Resilient nations.

Sustainable Development Goals

About Thailand