Databases will help monitor progress of reform plans

[rooster59]

Databases will help monitor progress of reform plans

By The Nation

 

The Natural Resources and Environmental Reform committee plans to create databases to help monitor changes as a result of the reform plans, according to its vice chair, Theerapat Prayurasiddhi.

 

The move followed Friday’s publication of plans required under the national reform law, resulting in them being in effect.

 

The plans, including the committee’s, will guide how the relevant sectors would be reformed, and they are legally binding, in line with the 20-year national strategy.

 

The committee realised the importance of following up and monitoring the progress of the proposals, so it came up with the idea to create the relevant databases.

Theerapat also pointed out that under the plans, a reduction of inequality in opportunities in environmental management is also addressed, with Strategic Environmental Assessment being the prime tool to allow public members to participate in critical decisions in regard to natural resources and the environment.

 

Rights of other species and nature are also addressed, Theerapat added.

 

The committee members would be called upon to help put in place plans to monitor and follow up the reform work, he noted.

 

The committee is among 13 appointed under the national reform law to develop and put in place long-term and legally-bonding reform plans.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30342701

 

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-04-08

[YetAnother]

9 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Rights of other species and nature are also addressed, Theerapat added.

love to ask him what that means; thais and rights of others ,of any kind of specie, including those despicable expats, don't go well together

[Lungstib]

Monitoring progress of reforms that aren't important and dont matter is irrelevant when the two reforms most badly needed, those of military and police, are not planned at all. 

[Cadbury]

15 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

The plans, including the committee’s, will guide how the relevant sectors would be reformed, and they are legally binding, in line with the 20-year national strategy.

I am curious as to how any of the Prayut Chan-o-cha 20 year plans can be legally binding on any government over that period of time. Do the tanks roll if any future government dare deviate from from such plans?

The first thing any incoming democratically elected government should do is is to change the law and throw all the 20 year plans in the rubbish bin along, with the Natural Resources and Environmental Reform Committee, and start again.

[Lupatria]

...and please keep in mind if the screen turns blue, general failure is at work!

[yellowboat]

5 hours ago, Lungstib said:

Monitoring progress of reforms that aren't important and dont matter is irrelevant when the two reforms most badly needed, those of military and police, are not planned at all. 

Why waste 30 minutes setting up some free open source database as reforms have yet to be defined ?   Of course if they are thinking of a large, very expensive, enterprise level database that would require paying lots of consultants, funding lavish trips abroad to attend workshops and train family members or friends, then it is a totally justified project worthy of the highest budgets possible. 

[IamRoach]

Those reform plans must be really complicated 4 years in and still nothing has happened besides persecution of political opponents.

[Srikcir]

6 hours ago, Cadbury said:

how any of the Prayut Chan-o-cha 20 year plans can be legally binding on any government over that period of time.

It's embedded in Articles 258-261 of the 2017 Constitution (see diagram below taken from NESBD PowerPoint Presentation https://www.set.or.th/thailandfocus/files/20170829_Dr_Porametee.pdf ) and any deviation will require an amendment to the constitution - a virtual impossibility with the Prayut appointed Senate. Hardly a surprise.

6 hours ago, Cadbury said:

Do the tanks roll if any future government dare deviate from from such plans?

Possibly.

If an elected government violates the constitution in order to deviate from such plans, it violates the nation's sovereignty and might even be considered a seditious act. If the Constitutional Court rules against the government (perhaps even impeach the offending government officials) and the government refuses to comply (or step down), I'd expect the military as the self-appointed defender of the nation's sovereignty would use its legal authority to forcibly remove the offending government leadership. All nice and tidy.

[NCC1701A]

so Thailand just discovered databases.

 

wait until they find out about spreadsheets.

 

that will be awkward.

 

 

[Sir Dude]

Hmmm, another case of........