WEEK #11, 13 - 19 March, 2023
In this issue:
C. Visitors/ MoU/ Agreement Signing
1) Announcement: Staff Relationship Committee invites staff suggestions by tomorrow noo
Greeting from the Staff Relationship Committee!!
The main objective of the Staff Relations Committee (SRC) is to advise on Staff-related issues and provide a direct link between the Staff body and AIT management. Fortunately, Prof. Yamamoto, Interim President has provided a platform called "AIT Stakeholder Forum", where SRC can convey your suggestions/concerns/issues/appreciation for further consideration.
The last SRC virtual meeting with all the staff was convened on 19 January 2022 and the minutes of the meeting are attached to this email for your reference. The first AIT Stakeholder Forum meeting was held on 4 November 2022, where SRC conveyed most of the suggestions/concerns raised by the staff to the management.
Firstly, SRC members would sincerely apologize for not being able to call for another meeting, as the appointed SRC Chair resigned and the Interim Chair for the SRC was recently appointed. However, SRC takes this opportunity to invite staff to let SRC members know your suggestions/concerns/issues/appreciation to us by sending an email to "bsireesha@ait.ac.th" who is currently appointed as Interim Chair by tomorrow 14 March 2023 noon. SRC assures to convey the suggestions to the AIT Management through the AIT Stakeholder Forum meeting to be held tomorrow afternoon. We do apologize for the short notice.
SRC assures all the staff to maintain the confidentiality of the request and we look forward to hearing your views/suggestions that you think should be conveyed to the management.
Best Regards,
Sireesha Bantu
SRC Interim Chair
Asian Institute of Technology
Contact No.: (66 2) 5246008
2) The South & Southeast Asia Region Webinar on “Learning from the Experiences of Bangladesh and The Philippines in Management of Treated Wastewater Data.”
GWSC would like to invite you to attend the South & Southeast Asia Region Webinar on “Learning from the Experiences of Bangladesh and The Philippines in Management of Treated Wastewater Data.”This webinar is going to be held TODAY( 13th March 2023) from 14:00 to 16:00 hrs Bangkok Time GMT+7 (Virtual).
Wastewater treatment and its monitoring are neglected areas of the water cycle. In general, the sector has suffered from many decades of neglect, which has resulted in woefully inadequate treatment and discharge in many countries. Inadequate wastewater treatment and discharge are causing significant damage to the environment as well as to human health and the economy, even in developed economies. As new threats are also identified in the form of priority and emerging pollutants in urban and industrial (treated) wastewater effluents, strong efforts must be made to improve wastewater management, treatment, and reuse.
The ultimate objective of this framework is to help countries achieve Target 6.3 by promoting wastewater safe treatment and reuse among sanitation and water utilities, through stimulated investment. The program of activities will benefit utilities generating valuable data that, to some extent, are already informing governmental institutions, ministries of water/environment, or equivalent institutions, for the preparation of national statistics on wastewater production and treatment. The Urban Wastewater 2030 initiative will develop and issue a “Call for Action” for governments, water professionals, and financiers to take action on the improvement of sustainable wastewater services and therefore contribute to the SDG 6 Global Framework for Acceleration.
Please find the attached program agenda for your kind reference.
Register Now: https://ait-ac-th.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqf-CvrDIvEt3QRf2Ss7-kPAUCI...
For more information please contact:
Mr. Hendra Gupta
AIT Global Water & Sanitation Center
3) Unveiling the Spectrum: Embracing Diversity in Sexuality and Gender
This semester SU aspires to create a gender-sensitive campus and announces an introductory crash course on gender, sexuality, and inclusion in general under the theme Unveiling the Spectrum: Embracing Diversity in Sexuality and Gender.
The aim of this course is to discuss power and identity, gender and consent as well as Sexual Harassment. As the course is extremely dynamic, there is an open independence in the choice of participation in the segment of the course or all three courses to have a holistic understanding of Gender, Sexuality, and Identity. SU is very excited about the course and they look forward to your excitement and participation as well!!!
Date:15-17 March 2023
Time:
15 March (Identity and Power): 1-3 pm
16 March (Gender): 4-6 pm
17 March (Consent and Sexual Harassment): 2-4 pm
Venue: E118
Happy Women’s Day, once more!
Full information: https://dds.ait.ac.th/news/2023/03/10/unveiling-the-spectrum-embracing-d...
Meet the Trainers for the upcoming Session on Unveiling the Spectrum: Embracing Diversity in Sexuality and Gender. We are extremely delighted to have Farheen, Renz, and Matt on board. There are also food and raffles for the participants!! Please join us!
4) UN Water 2023: Accelerating the achievement of SDG6 through partnerships
The SDG6 Research and Innovation Marathon Relay
Global Research and Innovation Priorities to Achieve SDG6: A world-wide marathon relay of ideas and recommendations on SDG6 acceleration
In March 2023, there will be a unique occasion for the first time in more than 40 years, the General Assembly of the United Nations will debate the challenges of the freshwater crisis and its solutions. In 2020 Secretary-General António Guterres announced his concern with the delays with which the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are being achieved. He called on the world to accelerate, particularly the water SDG (SDG6), as water crosscuts and is key to almost all other SDGs. Five accelerators were proposed: Finance, Data and Information, Capacity Development, Innovation, and Governance.
In just 24 hours, we will go around the world and connect researchers to debate the research needed to accelerate the five pillars of the acceleration framework. We will start in New York City on the 20 March from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center in West Harlem and end approximately 24 hours later back in New York at the famed Roosevelt House in mid-town Manhattan.
The marathon relay event will take place in blocks of 2 hours over 24 hours (20-21 March 2023), where a virtual baton will be passed on to meeting participants distributed over different time zones. Although the event will be of interest to all scholars working in the water sector (SDG6), participants from the corporate and governmental sectors and researchers in other fields (other SDGs) are also welcome.
The 2-hour time slot for Southeast Asia (SEA)/China will be on 21 March 2023 from 0900-1100h (Bangkok time, GMT+7). The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand, is the manager of the SEA/China time zone session. To dive deep into the accelerators within the available time, the discussion during the time zone session will concentrate on TWO accelerators – Capacity Development and Innovation. We, however, will also discuss other accelerators – Finance, Data and Information, and Governance from the perspectives of Capacity Development and Innovation.
We cordially invite you to join the SEA/China time zone session during UN Water 2023.
Program details (SEA/China time zone)
Date: 21 March 2023
Time: 09:00-11:00 AM (Bangkok Time, GMT+7)
Mode: Online
Please complete the form to receive a Zoom link for the SEA/China time zone session. Please note this event is limited to 300 participants. A Zoom link for the session will be sent to the first 300 registrants by 18 March 2023.
More details on the event are available at https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/new-york-city-water-week-event-the-sdg-6-...
Please feel free to contact Dr. Mukand Babel at msbabel@ait.asia if you need any further information regarding SEA/China time zone session.
1) Professional Development Course on “Strategic Human Resource Management and Business Leadership”
Date: 27 – 31 March 2023
Venue: AIT Conference Center, AIT Campus
This training course is designed to support HR leaders and professionals in their quest for best practices that will
be more beneficial to their organization’s human resources and for the achievement of business targets. By providing them
a better understanding of how to be both strategic and human-centered in their HR strategies and initiatives, and giving them
opportunities to explore various frameworks, tools and techniques,they will be able to translate strategic thinking into actionable outcomes that will make all stakeholders happy.
For more information and registration pls. visit:
https://extension.ait.ac.th/course/strategic-human-resource-management-a...
2) Professional Development Course on “Connecting Learning with Monitoring and Evaluation: A Strategy for MEL Operationalization and Result-Based M&E“
Date: 13 – 24 March 2023
Venue: AIT Conference Center, AIT Campus
Learn from practitioners on how to develop M & E pathways that foster measurement of results and respond to current changes of M&E contexts. Broadening perspectives for innovative ways to develop tools and reporting mechanisms that help to make decisions for project implementation.
Learning Modules and Contents Module-3: Project Impact Analysis and Evaluation
Certificate: approach
Successful candidate will receive AITE certificate and eligible for online coaching
Contact information: Ms. Worawan Sumroetrum, (+66-81) 801-8575 or worawan@ait.ac.th
For more information and registration pls. visit https://extension.ait.ac.th/course/connecting-learning-monitoring-and-ev...
3) Professional Development Course on "Connecting Learning with Monitoring and Evaluation: A Strategy for MEL Operationalization and Result-Based M&E"
Date: 15 – 18 May 2023
Venue: Online
Learn from practitioners on how to develop M & E pathways that foster measurement of results and respond to current changes of M&E contexts. Broadening perspectives for innovative ways to develop tools and reporting mechanisms that help to make decisions for project implementation.
Learning Modules and Contents Module-3: Project Impact Analysis and Evaluation
Module-1: Project Cycle Management and M&E
- Project cycle management and monitoring and evaluation
- Key concepts of result-based management
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning – A new M&E framework
- Financial and risk management in M&E
Module-2: Key Concepts of Result-based Management and MEL
- Theory of change
- Result-mapping
- Develop result framework/log frame
- Work plan/action and intervention plan
- M&E approaches for donor projects
- Tools for result-based MEL
- Gender perspective in M&E
Module-3: Project Impact Analysis and Evaluation
- Baseline benchmarking
- Most significant changes
- Impact after actions review
- Research design for M&E and approach for data collection
- M&E tools and techniques for robust impact analysis
- Data management and dashboard for M&E
- DEMER Model: Data, Evidence, Measurement, Unpack Errors and Reporting
Module-4: M&E Communication and Reporting
- M&E reporting/quarterly / biannual/ annual
- Packaging M&E data for internal and external communication/ audience
- M&E reflection and learning platform/innovation platform
- Stakeholder engagement-based on the pyramid approach
- Stories from the field
- Donor reporting
For more information and registration pls. visit https://extension.ait.ac.th/course/online-connecting-learning-monitoring-and-evaluation-strategy-mel-operationalization-and
Date: 10 – 21 July 2023
Venue: AIT Conference Center, AIT Campus
Learn from practitioners on how to develop M & E pathways that foster measurement of results and respond to current changes of M&E contexts. Broadening perspectives for innovative ways to develop tools and reporting mechanisms that help to make decisions for project implementation.
Learning Modules and Contents Module-3: Project Impact Analysis and Evaluation
Module-1: Project Cycle Management and M&E
- Project cycle management and monitoring and evaluation
- Key concepts of result-based management
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning – A new M&E framework
- Financial and risk management in M&E
Module-2: Key Concepts of Result-based Management and MEL
- Theory of change
- Result-mapping
- Develop result framework/log frame
- Work plan/action and intervention plan
- M&E approaches for donor projects
- Tools for result-based MEL
- Gender perspective in M&E
Module-3: Project Impact Analysis and Evaluation
- Baseline benchmarking
- Most significant changes
- Impact after actions review
- Research design for M&E and approach for data collection
- M&E tools and techniques for robust impact analysis
- Data management and dashboard for M&E
- DEMER Model: Data, Evidence, Measurement, Unpack Errors and Reporting
Module-4: M&E Communication and Reporting
- M&E reporting/quarterly / biannual/ annual
- Packaging M&E data for internal and external communication/ audience
- M&E reflection and learning platform/innovation platform
- Stakeholder engagement-based on the pyramid approach
- Stories from the field
- Donor reporting
For more information and registration pls. visit https://extension.ait.ac.th/course/connecting-learning-monitoring-and-evaluation-strategy-mel-operationalization-and-result
The delegation from ASEAN Centre for Sustainable Development Studies and Dialogue (ACSDSD), Thailand on Tuesday, 7 March 2023 at 10:15 hrs in the Board Room, Administration Building.
- Dr. Indrajit Pal, SERD/ Hanoi, Vietnam/ 8 - 15 April 2023
- Prof. Sangam Shrestha, SET/ New York, USA/ 19 - 26 March 2023
- Dr. Ram C. Bhujel/ India/ 16 - 20 March 2023
- Dr. Loc Thai Nguyen/ HCMC, Vietnam/ 15 - 21 March 2023
- Mr.Raunak Mukhia, intERLab / Kathmandu, Nepal/ 11 - 18 March 2023
- Dr. Indrajit Pal, SERD/ Kyoto, Japan/ 12 - 19 March 2023
- Prof. Thammarat Koottatep, SERD/ Republic of Fiji/ 4 - 13 March 2023
- Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe, Executive Director, OAAA/ Taipei, Taiwan/ 6 - 8 April 2023
- Dr. Adisorn Lertsinsrubtavee, Director, intERLab/ Kathmandu, Nepal/ 12 - 17 March 2023
- Dr. Hennadige Ramesh Pandula Soysa, RRC-AP/ South Korea/ 12 - 16 March 2023
- Prof. Thammarat Kootatep, SERD/ Siem Reap, Cambodia/ 13 - 18 March 2023
Staff Position:
- IT and Marketing Officer, SERD
- Senior Program Officer, IA (Office of International and Public Affairs)
- Assistant Internal Auditor, Internal Audit Office (IAO)
- Coordinator, Administrator, School of Management (SOM)
- Public Relations Officer, (Office of International and Public Affairs)
- Accountant, General Ledger, Office of Finance