Shared terms for working together

Thai–English terms for learning and exercises, with contextual definitions and primary sources.

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Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster ReliefHADRการช่วยเหลือด้านมนุษยธรรมและการบรรเทาภัยพิบัติ

Project working term for assistance addressing disaster-related suffering and needs through multiple actors within their mandates and context. It denotes neither a single command body nor authority over other agencies. Thai wording is a project rendering.

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Disaster risk reductionDRRการลดความเสี่ยงจากภัยพิบัติ

Preventing new disaster risk, reducing existing risk and addressing remaining risk to strengthen resilience and sustainable development. Paraphrased from UNDRR; the Thai text is not an official translation.

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Command-post exerciseCPXการฝึก ณ ที่บัญชาการ

In this collection, an exercise in decisions, coordination and information exchange from simulated headquarters using assigned roles and scenarios. This educational adaptation is not claimed as a distinct WHO exercise category or an exact synonym for every functional exercise.

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Simulation exerciseSimExการฝึกจำลองสถานการณ์

Practice using a described or simulated emergency and response to develop or assess capabilities. It need not be a computer model or forecast. Thai wording is the project’s rendering of the WHO concept.

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Tabletop exerciseTTXการฝึกอภิปรายบนโต๊ะ

A discussion-based exercise exploring a scenario and role-based responses. WHO distinguishes this from operations-based formats such as drills and functional exercises. The Thai label is a project learning aid, not a mandatory institutional term.

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Emergency operations centreEOCศูนย์ปฏิบัติการภาวะฉุกเฉิน

A location coordinating information and resources to support incident management, described by WHO as temporary or permanent. Its English name alone does not establish a centre’s command authority in Thailand. Thai wording is used for this project.

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Common operating pictureCOPภาพสถานการณ์ร่วม

Exercise working definition: a shared set of situation information for coordinated decisions, displaying time, provenance and unresolved points. It may combine maps, requests and constraints; it does not imply identical knowledge or complete certainty.

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Situation reportSITREPรายงานสถานการณ์

In the exercises, a time-bounded report of the situation, needs, response, gaps and decisions required, with sources and limitations. This collection’s format is an educational proposal, not an OCHA template or Thai official report.

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Master scenario events listMSELบัญชีลำดับเหตุการณ์หลักของการฝึก

Project working definition: a controller’s list linking timing, events, inject messages, ownership and expected observable actions. Informed by retrievable WHO §5.5.5 text; full-PDF access failed, so no complete-template claim is made.

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Exercise injectเหตุการณ์หรือข้อความกระตุ้นการฝึก

Project working definition: information or a message released by controllers as a scenario develops to elicit responses related to exercise objectives. It is not a real operational order. Based on retrievable WHO §5.5.6 text, without full-PDF review.

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After action reviewAARการทบทวนหลังการปฏิบัติ

A review of actions for learning and continued improvement. WHO describes formats including debriefs and working groups. A short web reflection is an adaptation, not a complete AAR or proof that identified problems are resolved.

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Needs assessmentการประเมินความต้องการ

Project working term for gathering and analysing information about problems, needs and assistance gaps, checking provenance, timing and conflicting evidence. It differs from counting available donations or accepting every request without verification.

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Resource requestคำขอสนับสนุนทรัพยากร

In the exercises, a record of resources sought to address a gap, with item, unit, quantity, destination, timing, reason, owner and verification status. Receiving a request is distinct from approving, dispatching or fulfilling it. The record format is original to this project.

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Humanitarian logisticsโลจิสติกส์เพื่อมนุษยธรรม

Here, planning and connecting sourcing, movement, storage and information so assistance can reach needs, with constraints checked and results followed. Synthesized from LOG and WFP; not a legal definition or a specific agency mandate.

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Last-mile deliveryการส่งมอบช่วงสุดท้าย

The final link bringing supplies to people who need them, following WFP’s delivery framing. It is not a fixed one-mile distance, and reaching a warehouse or distribution point does not establish universal access. Thai wording is educational.

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Proof of deliveryPODหลักฐานยืนยันการส่งมอบ

Exercise definition: a traceable record of items, quantities, condition, accountable receipt, place/time and discrepancies. A site’s acknowledgement is distinct from distribution to people and need not be a public face photograph.

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Knowledge, Skills, Ethics and CharacterKSECความรู้ ทักษะ จริยธรรม และลักษณะบุคคล

The project owner’s framework: Knowledge, Skills, Ethics and Character, used to distinguish learning evidence. It is neither an AUN-QA definition nor an approved qualifications mapping. AUN-QA supports outcome-assessment alignment only.

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Outcome-based educationOBEการศึกษาที่มุ่งผลลัพธ์การเรียนรู้

Education designed around what learners should learn and demonstrate at completion, with learning and assessment aligned. Paraphrased from AUN-QA 4.0 §2.1; not a claim that this collection is an assessed programme.

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Course learning outcomeCLOผลลัพธ์การเรียนรู้ระดับรายวิชา

An expected demonstrable learning result at course level, aligned with programme outcomes under AUN-QA §2.1. Giving a web module outcome an identifier does not make it an institutionally approved CLO.

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Programme learning outcomePLOผลลัพธ์การเรียนรู้ระดับหลักสูตร

A result expected by programme completion, connected to course outcomes and evidence of achievement under AUN-QA §2.1. PLO mapping here is proposed future design, not evidence of degree accreditation.

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Commandการบัญชาการ

CPX working term for directing action within the authority assigned to a role. Real authority depends on jurisdiction-specific law, plans and orders, not on calling a body a coordination centre or on this lesson. This does not map Thai and international positions one-to-one.

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Coordinationการประสานงาน

Project working term for connecting information, plans, resources and responsible actors so work aligns. Coordination does not automatically confer command over other agencies; mandates, consent and jurisdiction must be checked in context.

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