KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN COMMUNITY BASE RESEARCH PROJECT OF THE COMMUNITY BASE RESEARCH CENTER IN LAMPHUN PROVINCE

Abstract

 The objectives of this research were 1) to develop a community research problems of four projects at the Subdistrict level, (2) to upgrade and develop research knowledge for local communities in Lamphun Province by creating public policies and coordinating with the Office of the National Health Commission (NHSO), (3) to monitor and support research projects that are in progress to ensure the quality, and (4) to find ways to manage knowledge for upgrading knowledge of the Coordination Center to be an innovation center for sustainable agriculture. The target areas covered five Subdistricts with fifty-eight communities. Record form, forum record form, mind mapping, voice recorder, video recorder, notebook, participant registration form, and research photos were research tools used to collect data from forum and small focus group. This was a participatory action research (PAR). It was found that the development of community research questions of four projects in the sub-district level continued from the fiscal year (2019) by The Thailand Research Fund (TRF) by bringing it into the process of developing a new research project. There was an upgrade and development of research knowledge for the local area of Lamphun province. Public policy was created in Lamphun Province by the coordination of (NHCO). To apply knowledge to support research projects from the past and current research for local area in Lamphun was done to upgrade development knowledge and impel participatory public policies of Lamphun Province in the year of 2020, and the document of the course “Reducing Smog from Wildfire by Community Participation”. There was a monitoring and support to increase the quality of continuing research projects. Knowledge from the research was used in the organizations through knowledge management of coordination center, which was the center of innovation in sustainable agriculture in every District in Lamphun Province. There were similar and different scholars, learning spaces, and sets of knowledge depending on the areas.