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Community Networks
CODI’s demand-led facilitating structure touches the lives of people across Thailand, in all the country’s urban and rural areas. A crucial role in working at this scale is played by community networks. Since the very beginning, CODI has supported the establishment and strengthening of new networks and the linking together of existing community networks across […]
ormmas
June 7, 2023
Community Housing Insurance
Since it was launched in 2003, CODI’s Baan Mankong Program has helped more than 104,000 urban poor families around Thailand get secure land and housing, in over 1,000 projects. All of these projects were financed by loans from the CODI Fund to registered community cooperatives, which manage the loan repayments for their individual members and […]
ormmas
May 12, 2023
Baan Mankong Rural in Pak Chong District
Ban Man Khong Project in rural area is an extension of Ban Man Khong or The Secure Land Tenure Project which began initially in urban areas. In the rural areas, the project’s purposes are to create security for housing and farmland for the rural poor and to develop the infrastructure more relevant to the people’s […]
ormmas
May 12, 2023
Homeless Center in Chiang Mai
On June 28, 2018, a big crowd gathered to celebrate the opening of the new Chiang Mai Homeless Center, including the Minister of Social Development and Human Security and ministry staff, the vice mayor of Chiang Mai and city council members, the CODI director and staff, support NGOs, community network leaders from other cities, homeless […]
ormmas
May 12, 2023
Canal Housing Projects on 2 canals in Bangkok
Bangkok’s beleaguered canal-side communities: Bangkok is built on low-lying, swampy land. The city is crisscrossed with canals (“klongs” in the Thai language), which have not only helped drain and control all the water, but have traditionally provided conduits for commerce, transportation, irrigation and development. But as cars have replaced boats, the klongs have fallen into disrepair: […]
ormmas
May 12, 2023
Bor Farang Housing Development Project
Background on the area: For many years, the Siam Cement Group Company (SCG) had been manufacturing cement and excavating soil on this sprawling 10-hectare site in Bangkok’s Chatuchak District. By the time production stopped in 1927, the land had been reduced to about 1-hectare, around a 9-hectare pit, which eventually filled with water and became Bor […]
ormmas
May 12, 2023
Citywide Housing in the city of Nakhon Sawan
The city of Nakhon Sawan has always been an important junction, first as the confluence of four rivers and port-of-call for barges and steamboats going downriver to Bangkok, and more recently as the junction of several major highways. Nowadays, poor migrants coming into the city to fill the increasing demand for labor can’t find affordable […]
ormmas
May 12, 2023
Citywide Housing for the poor in the town of Chum Phae
Chum Phae is a small trading and manufacturing town in the fertile rice-growing region of Khon Kaen Province, in northeastern Thailand. In the last few decades, the town has attracted increasing numbers of poor migrants from rural areas, who come looking for work in the town’s tapioca and gunny-sack factories, or in its sweat shops […]
ormmas
May 12, 2023
คนเชียงรายรวมพลังซ่อม ‘บ้านพอเพียง’ 50 ตำบล 413 หลัง พร้อมยกระดับเศรษฐกิจชุมชน-สร้างรายได้นำร่อง 7 พื้นที่
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April 18, 2023
Test -5: Welcome to the English language website
Welcome to the English language website of the Community OrganizationsDevelopment Institute (CODI) in Thailand. CODI is a Thai government Facebook iconFacebookTwitter iconTwitterLINE iconLine
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October 15, 2022
Test -5: Welcome to the English language website
Welcome to the English language website of the Community OrganizationsDevelopment Institute (CODI) in Thailand. CODI is a Thai government Facebook iconFacebookTwitter iconTwitterLINE iconLine
adisorn.p
October 15, 2022
Test -5: Welcome to the English language website
Welcome to the English language website of the Community OrganizationsDevelopment Institute (CODI) in Thailand. CODI is a Thai government Facebook iconFacebookTwitter iconTwitterLINE iconLine
adisorn.p
October 15, 2022
Test -4: Welcome to the English language website
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October 15, 2022
Test -3: Welcome to the English language website
Welcome to the English language website of the Community OrganizationsDevelopment Institute (CODI) in Thailand. CODI is a Thai government institution which supports a national process of people-drivendevelopment in Thailand’s urban and rural poor communities, through a variety of funds and programs. Facebook iconFacebookTwitter iconTwitterLINE iconLine
adisorn.p
October 15, 2022
Test -2: Welcome to the English language website
Welcome to the English language website of the Community OrganizationsDevelopment Institute (CODI) in Thailand. CODI is a Thai government institution which supports a national process of people-drivendevelopment in Thailand’s urban and rural poor communities, through a variety of funds and programs. Facebook iconFacebookTwitter iconTwitterLINE iconLine
adisorn.p
October 15, 2022
Test : Welcome to the English language website
Welcome to the English language website of the Community OrganizationsDevelopment Institute (CODI) in Thailand. CODI is a Thai government institution which supports a national process of people-drivendevelopment in Thailand’s urban and rural poor communities, through a variety of funds and programs. Facebook iconFacebookTwitter iconTwitterLINE iconLine