Innovation of Co – Production against Covid – 19 in Thailand: Case Study of Community Health Charter at Na Pho Klang, Khong Chaim, Ubon Ratchathani
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Social Innovation is important because it is trying to solve local community problems. This article presents a social innovation on co – production against Covid – 19 in Thailand as a Na Pho Klang Community Health Charter which has been praised by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH). This is a first model of community health charter against Covid – 19 in Thailand through the lens of New Public Governance (NPG) concept. The NPG emphasizes the importance of cooperation among government organization, private organization and volunteer organization to provide public services. The NPG concept also related to the “triangle that moves the mountain” principle, which involves three sectors namely (1) the public, the bureaucracy, the local government, the political party, (2) the academic, the vocation and the philosopher and (3) the civil society or the private sector. This principle results in co – production consisting of (1) actors (2) co - initiate (3) co – design and (4) co – evaluation. All in all, co – Production against Covid – 19 in Thailand: Na Pho Klang Community Health Charter through co – thinking, co – design, co – execution, and co – decision – making, reflecting the collaboration between government, locality, academic, and civil society in dealing with Covid – 19 pandemics.
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