On November 11-12, 2025, Dr.
Nattharikan Kaewkolthat, head of the
"Preserving Traditional Wisdom for
Sustainable Community Development"
project, together with a team of
academics, practitioners in Kumphawapi
District, and local partners including
the Huai Koeng Subdistrict Municipality,
Khok Soon Community, and Huai Koeng
Herbal Enterprise, conducted in-depth
academic service activities to
systematically strengthen community
capacity based on cultural capital and
local knowledge.
Key activities
included collecting and analyzing
spatial data, extracting lessons learned
from the traditional use of
"reeds" in developing
community products, and designing a
knowledge management process from
upstream to downstream, encompassing raw
material sourcing, production, product
quality development, product identity
creation, and market linkages. This
aimed to enhance economic value while
conserving local resources and cultural
traditions.
The "Preserving
Traditional Wisdom for Sustainable
Community Development" project
aligns with the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) as an integrated systemic
process that holistically links the
development of people, communities,
economic and social structures. It aims
to create both learning outcomes and
structural outcomes leading to long-term
sustainability.
In the dimension of
SDG 4: Quality Education, the project
serves as a collaborative learning space
between educational institutions,
academics, and communities through the
process of extracting lessons learned.
Knowledge management and the development
of knowledge from local wisdom into
learning capital that can be transferred
and further developed not only promotes
lifelong learning for people in the
community but also builds the capacity
for analytical thinking,
problem-solving, and innovation
development from real-world contexts.
This reflects the enhancement of the
quality of practical education and its
connection to life and careers.
In
the dimension of SDG 8: Decent Work and
Economic Growth, the project aims to
strengthen the capacity of communities
to develop occupations based on local
resources and culture, especially the
processing and development of products
from "reed" to add value in
terms of quality, identity, and market
access. Designing cooperative production
processes and management helps create
income stability, reduce economic
vulnerability, and open up employment
opportunities at the household and
community levels, which aligns with the
concept of inclusive and equitable
economic growth.
In the dimension of
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and
Infrastructure, the project applies
academic knowledge and process-oriented
innovation to community product
management systems, from value chain
analysis and development of production
standards to product identity creation
and the connection of market networks
and collaborative partners. The
development of these "knowledge
structures" and "collaboration
structures" serves as social and
economic infrastructure that facilitates
continuous development and adaptation of
communities in the modern economic
context.
In the dimension of SDG 17:
Partnerships for Development, the
project reflects a multilateral working
model that connects educational
institutions. Local government
organizations, community groups, and
community enterprises are systematically
integrated. This collaboration is not
limited to short-term activities but
develops into a long-term working
mechanism encompassing planning,
monitoring, and scaling up to other
areas and networks—a key element
of sustainable development at the
structural level.
In summary, the
project implementation integrates SDGs
in a process-oriented manner rather than
focusing on specific outcomes.
Specifically, human development through
learning (SDG 4), building community
economic security (SDG 8), applying
innovation and strengthening management
structures (SDG 9), and creating
sustainable collaborative networks (SDG
17) are combined into a development
system that aligns with the context and
identity of each area. This enables
communities to grow in a balanced and
sustainable manner in the economic,
social, and cultural dimensions over the
long term.
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