RESEARCH PROJECT MANAGEMENT OF THAILAND’S SOUTHERN BORDER PROVINCES DEVELOPMENT FOR SUCCESSFUL ACHIEVEMENT
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Research Project, Social Return of Investment, Thailand’s Southern Border ProvincesAbstract
The follow-up and evaluation of the research project management through all 11 projects in the fiscal year 2020 received the budgets from the National Research of Thailand through the observation tool and data analysis by content synthesis and Social Return of Investment analysis, which gives the result that every project pursued the activity plan despite the COVID-19 pandemic by organizing the focus group via the online system and in-depth interviews. The research results appeared beneficial toward the target groups, divided into four groups: 1) social and cultural group, 2) commercial group, 3) technological group, and 4) policy group. The evaluation result indicates that the social return on investment result reveals that the project focuses on the low-income group according to the Islamic Principle. The current total value is 8,500,000 THB., with the result of investment value as 1,429,906.54 THB. Every THB. invested in this project could create a social benefit at 1.79 THB. Most of the projects could fully deliver the results to the beneficiary.
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