รายงานผลการปฎิบัติงานคณะกรรมการสิทธิมนุษยชนแห่งชาติ ประจ�ำปีงบประมาณ พ.ศ. 2563 033 3) The NHRCT’s Human Rights Information 3.8 Management and organization Center is one of Thailand’s specialized libraries for development 3.8.1 Establishing the regional office in the South The NHRCT resolved to establish “the Southern Regional Office of National Human Rights Commission of Thailand” in Songkhla province to be the pilot regional office, to increase the efficiency in enhancing public accessibility to the NHRCT. The Southern regional office function would have the mandate to cover 14 Southern provinces, which are: Krabi, Chumphon, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Phang-nga, Phuket, Ranong, Surat Thani, Trang, Narathiwat, Pattani, Phatthalung, Yala, Songkhla, and Satun. The functions of the regional office include: (1) human rights promotion; (2) human rights protection; and (3) monitoring the human rights situation, which are human rights guarantees for the people in the region. 3.8.2 Affirming integrity and transparency 1) The Office of National Human Rights Commission of Thailand participated in the annual integrity and transparency assessment for state agencies, according to the guideline of the Office of National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC). Among criteria for the assessment, they included the agency’s performance, budget spending, the means to exercise of power, the use of property, corruption prevention, and information accessibility. In fiscal year 2020, the office of NHRCT received 94.06 points from the assessment, an A-rank with the highest score when compare with 5 Constitutional independent organizations. 2) The Office of the NHRCT intended to become a learning organization by means of knowledge management. An administrative committee was; therefore, appointed to serve the purpose, organizing series of activities such as creating informal learning space, self-learning education, and organizing knowledge archive and database system, etc. human rights as the NHRCT values the promotion of human rights knowledge and understanding to the general public. It aims to facilitate the accessibility to human rights resources, open to the public both domestic and international. Therefore, the 24-hour online channel to access the information without limitation was created, which also served the purpose of preventing the spreading of Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), as well as the needs of the digital age and the Thailand 4.0 policy. 4) The Office of NHRCT had policy to establish a human rights archive to gather and preserve human rights historical documents related to the establishment and the operations of the NHRCT and the Office. The materials will be collected according to the professional archival principles and the international standards. It aims to demonstrate good governance, to provide services and distribution of the archived documents to benefit towards education, research, and analysis of human rights within the country. 3.8.3 Personnel development Following the personnel development plan to improve the potential of its personnel, the Office of the NHRCT organized a number of activities including training courses for officers and new staff members. The subjects of training varied from administration skills to human rights knowledge organized by the Office of the NHRCT and other institutions. 3.8.4 Cooperation with other constitutional independent organizations The NHRCT placed importance on the integrated collaboration among the 5 constitutional independent organizations, namely; the Election Commission of Thailand, the National Anti-Corruption Commission, the State Audit Committee, the Ombudsman, and The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand.