Final Technical Report - weADAPT

7 Capacity Building Outcomes and Remaining Needs
The research activity under this AIACC regional study, which also coupled with
capacity building program under Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN),
had involved number of researchers and research assistants into the study under various steps
and different disciplines in this integrate study. The workshop and training as well as handon
exercise on research activity under this regional study had increased their abilities in
climate change study, both on the natural science discipline as well as social science
discipline.
The major capacity building outcome on research capacity consist of over 20
researchers, who had actively involved in the study, and network among the institutes in the
3 countries in the Southeast Asia region, as well as network with other research institutes
outside the region, which had interaction through activities in the AIACC. The names of
institutions that had been actively involved in the regional study are as follows:
o Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
o Chiang Mai University, Thailand
o Mahidol University, Thailand
o Khon Kaen University, Thailand
o Ubonratchathani University, Thailand
o Meteorological Department, Ministry of Science, Thailand
o Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture, Thailand
o Land Development Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Thailand
o National University of Laos, Lao PDR
o National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Lao
PDR
o Environmental Research Institute, Science Technology and Environment Agency,
Lao PDR
o Water Resource Coordinating Committee, Office of the Prime Minister, Lao PDR
o Sub-institute of Hydrometeorology of South Vietnam, Vietnam
o Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO),
Australia
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