• Start year: 2012
• Type: Organizational / Governance
• Status: Completed

Administrator of Hat Yai has a policy to develope of local courses in government schools about composition, separations, and utilization of the waste through various activities such as food waste separation in the schools and then be fermented to produce biogas. This biogas will be use as fuel for cooking in school instead of buying whole of it. Fermentation residues from biogas can also be used as a fertilizer in the vegetable garden, mature trees, flower in school.

• Start year:
• Type: Technical / Infrastructural
• Status: In operation

Hat Yai Municipality is a center of Songkla province and other provinces in Southern Thailand, and also connect to neighbor country – Malaysia. Therefore, the municipality has to operate and develop plans to support overall transportation for public. The mayor of Hat Yai municipality has worked together with Transport and Traffic Policy Plan Office to develop dual track railways system to connect districts (Amphur) to Hat Yai and Hat Yat to other provinces and neighbor countries. Moreover, the municipality plans to develop monorail system in the main route of the town at 18.3 km. in total. The aim is to encourage local people and tourists to reduce private vehicle use. The plan is expected to complete within the year 2024. At present, Hat Yai municipality has started operating sustainable mobility under the campaign “Share the Road.” The campaign aims at developing roads to support local people and all kind of vehicles to share the road equally and safely. The municipality has improved the landscape along the road to be cleaner and more pleasant and also made the pavements to be more walkable. Moreover, the walkways were built for supporting people with disability. The cycling schools and communities has been created by providing knowledge sharing session on cycling and encouraging students to use bicycles in school activities. The intended outcome of this project is to raising number of pedestrians and cyclists from 10% to be at least 30%. Moreover, the municipality has a policy to reduce private car use by providing transportation to pick up and drop off students in municipality covering the area about 30 km. The service is available free of charge. The municipality has a plan to purchase more school buses to provide services covering all areas. In 2013, the municipality purchased 3 electric buses and gave it to Prince of Songkla University to provide service for over 20,000 staffs and students from university to public transport hub of Hat Yai municipality. In terms of providing service to tourists, the municipality has initiated the public transportation project to provide services from the city center to municipality’s park which connects to Cable Car which goes up to scenic point on the mountains. The project can reduce the number of cars parked in the parking lots and increase the number of tourists because of its convenience. This can also reduce fuel use considerably.

• Start year: 2010
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: Completed

Originally our waste dispose to the landfill about 100 rai with 100,000 tons of waste (or around 12.5m height of waste pile), recently we have a problem about not enough landfill. Then, we plan to use the waste disposal system that is efficient and environmentally friendly, gasification ash melting, but the system is highly cost (650 million baht) which exceed the capacity of municipality to perform. Therefore, municipality together with the private sector have invested on waste-to-energy project which can generate electricity of 250 tons per day, 6 MW.

• Start year: 2012
• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status: Completed

Waste is still one of the most important problem of Hat Yai even we already have the waste-to-energy project. As we have a limited landfill area, we need to reduce the waste from its source through various activities including grocery stores and garbage exchange, recycleble bank, EM and organic fertilizer production, Biogas from animal food waste, and hazardous waste redeem points. This project can reduce waste from 298 tons/day to 170 tons/day.

• Start year: 2013
• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status: Completed

Food producers often reduce costs by using the oil for several times or buy a filtered used oil which harmful to consumer health. Municipality has strict measures to check the quality of cooking oil in each stores, and the purchase of used vegetable oil to produce biodiesel. In collaboration with the University, municipality acknowledge people and set used oil buyers unit in the area in order to send these oils to biodiesel production plant with capacity of 1,000 liters and then be sold to the local people, especially the public bus.

• Start year:
• Type: Technical / Infrastructural
• Status: In operation

Hatyai Municipality is one of the largest municipalities in Songkhla province located 60 kilometers away from Malaysia border. The city is the center of 7 provinces in the lower southern region of Thailand. All transportation facilities are available within the city that includes international airport, railway station and deep seaport, as well as many businesses to service tourists from Malaysia and Singapore. The city manages 298 tons of solid waste per day. Even though there are many campaigns to promote waste separation, only 128 tons per day can be segregated. The rest about 170 tons of waste was taken to 40 acres-landfill which located out of the city and has been using for disposing garbage for more than 40 years. Three years ago, this landfill was overload and communities nearby affected by environmental impacts. The mayor of Hatyai Municipality raised this issue to get support from higher level. The Electricity Generation Authority of Thailand (EGAT) assisted to find out the private company named GDEC to invest on waste to energy facility for Hatyai City. In 2015, GDEC started to operate the gasification ash melting system to generate 6 MW of electricity from 250 tons per day of solid waste. Therefore, Hatyai Municipality now has environmental friendly waste disposal facility as well as it has a plan to improve old landfill site to be new green public area.

• Start year: 2011
• Type: Organizational / Governance
• Status: Completed

The cost of the energy is the burden of the municipality.It is not easy for municipality to save on electricity consumption because it may effect to the service. Anyways, municipal office has realized that we must use energy more efficiently to be a good example for the people. Therefore, municipality has initiated a campaign to raise awareness about energy savings in municipal offices, and has appointed a working group to track performance, and uses this measure as the basis for determining bonuses for units that reduce the energy usage. The project has received support from the staff.

• Start year: 2012
• Type: Assessment/Research
• Status: In operation

This project is the collaboration between Meteorological Department, Royal Irrigation, ACCCRN Programe, and Hat Yai municipality. Flood forecasting will use the mathematical model to predict flooding including rain forecasting by radar data, development of hydrological model by IFAS, Hydraulic model by HEC-RAS. The project aim to cooperate in developing a system to predict floods in Hat Yai and to evaluate a 3-day weather forecast and flood forecast in Hat Yai, as well as to acknowledge community and schools about flood forecasting.

• Start year: 2013
• Type: Regulatory
• Status: Completed

"Support House" is a priority of the administration to prepare a disaster response plan, provide the house, warning house in risking areas (10 communities), and also database of vulnerable groups (children,patient, disable person, the elderly, and pregnant women), handbook for the flood response, and provide necessary equipments, including life jackets, rope, and radio, and the practise of disaster response plan in each community. So communities can help themselves in the event of flooding.

• Start year: 2013
• Type: Education/Awareness Raising
• Status: In operation

As flooding was the disaster that Hat Yai are the most vulnerable, we must prepared to cope with flooding by emphasis on community-based. Municipality has addressed the concept of flood response to a local program by integrating this into 4 primary school learning units including house worrking, health education, social, and science to cultivate knowledge of the actual experience in dealing flooding.

• Start year: 2013
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: In operation

This project aims to improve the principal city planning of Hat Yai and to provide a framework for local development which will be the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015 in accordance with the growth of population, employment, economic, social and environmental resources. Implementation of the project will focus on the participation of all sectors, especially local people. For the result (at present), the the vision for the city planning was set as "green city: development of economic and a better quality of life "as well as the integration plan to cope with the effects of climate change.

• Start year: 2012
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: Completed

Our city is located in Uthapao river basin. In 2000 and 2010, the city was faced the flooding and cause the damage to life and properties. Municipal had cooperate with Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network: Hatyai City in order to integrate various communications to public i.e. flood warning system, website, disaster response plan at community level, radio network, flooding reports via SMS, LED signs (VMS), hot line 1559 (24 hours), and a radio station (FM 96.0 MHz) .

• Start year: 2013
• Type: Assessment/Research
• Status: In operation

Lessons Learned From theflooding in 2010, the floods have caused huge damage because public support is delay due to lack of infomation of external agencies about the area, route, and the location of vulnerable groups. Municipal has developed the data base of vulnerable groups (children,patient, disable person, the elderly, and pregnant women)who may need help as the first priority. The data base will show on Google map with the gps location in UTM unit. This information will help external agencies work more easily, which will make the rescue more effectively and timely.

• Start year: 2013
• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status: In operation

The growth of the economy, making the municipal area became an expensive commercial area. So, the city people do not prefer doing agriculture in the area. The foods mostly are export from other cities and lead to risk of chemical contamination and risk of food security in unpredictable disaster such as flooding. Municipality has endeavored to revive the concept of urban agriculture to contribute to food security toward Resilience City by encouraging people to grow their own vegetables at home or any space in the city, developing the bio-gas, organic fertilizer, bio-fermentation, and household products from plants such as dishwashing soap, shampoo, insect repellent, etc.