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This article provides a corrective to the dominant celebratory narrative about the conditional cash transfer programme in the Philippines, the Pantawid, and its associated social registry, the Listahanan. Based on extensive documentary analysis and fieldwork in the Philippines in 2017 and 2018, we argue that the targeting system has in fact been unable to function according to its primary purpose of identifying the poor and providing them social protection, despite being celebrated precisely for this purpose. This has been partly – but not only – due to the increasingly obsolescent data of the registry, which the political system has been incapable of correcting, leading to stasis at a fairly low level of coverage, at a peak of about 19 percent of national households in 2014 and since subsiding to about 17 percent by 2020, with transfer amounts at a fraction of the food poverty line. This dysfunction has resulted in a quasi-permanent group of cash payment recipients, with little or no reflection of evolving poverty profiles. This revised reading of the Pantawid and Listahanan, in what might be considered as a strong case to examine social protection performance, brings us back to the perennial problems associated with poverty targeting in even best-case social protection programmes promoted by international donors and organisations.

Corporate Social Responsibility CSR must seek continuous improvement, in turn generating added value for all its stakeholders, because it must go beyond legal requirements, must be voluntary and seek a balance between the social, economic and environmental impact generated by the organization (Cajiga). The elements that establish the concept of CSR do not express obedience to a specific type of organization, no matter their rationale, all have interest groups and dimensions that make the concept become a reality, such as economic, social and the ecological one is internal or external, this leads to each company establishing its own strategies and acting according to its context.In Colombia, the EPM group incorporated into its CSR system, a model to improve the relationship with interest groups, defined in a new political position vis-à-vis the territory, seeking to support regional development, based on two factors, to better understand the environment and the leadership for the establishment of rules of the game regarding the interest groups that act in the region, finding that the tendency to remedy existing problems predominates instead of establishing preventive and local development actions ; La responsabilidad social empresarial RSE debe buscar la mejora continua, a su vez generar un valor agregado para todos sus grupos de interés (stakeholders), pues se debe ir más allá de las exigencias legales, debe ser de carácter voluntario y buscar un equilibrio entre el impacto social, económico y ambiental que genera la organización(Cajiga). Los elementos que establecen el concepto de RSE no expresan obediencia a un tipo de organización especifico, no importa su razón de ser, todas cuentan con grupos de interés y unas dimensiones que logran que el concepto se convierta en realidad, como la económica, la social y la ecológica sean internas o externas, esto lleva a que cada empresa establezca sus estrategias propias y actué de acuerdo a su contexto. En Colombia, el grupo EPM incorporó en su sistema de RSE, un modelo para mejorar la relación con los grupos de interés, definido en una nueva postura política frente al territorio, buscando apoyar el desarrollo regional, establecido en dos factores, conocer mejor el entorno y el liderazgo para el establecimiento de reglas de juego respecto a los grupos de interés que actúan en la región, encontrándose que predomina la tendencia a remediar problemas existentes en lugar de establecer acciones preventivas y de desarrollo local

El artículo presenta un análisis crítico de las transformaciones socioeconómicas a nivel mundial, su incidencia en las formas de producción y formas de vida que trasciende la esfera económica impactando las condiciones de gobernabilidad de nuestros países, según el modelo de desarrollo vigente. Estas transformaciones plantean la necesidad de repensar el bien común, la justicia social, el desarrollo, la familia, la persona humana, el Estado y las políticas públicas,como parte de lo social y redimensionar con ello, la cuestión social como ámbito natural de intervención del Trabajo Social. Se parte de entender que el Trabajo Social aporta a crear condiciones de justicia social, al buscar acciones necesarias para incluir y favorecer a todos aquellos sectores poblacionales que no han sido favorecidos por el sistema, creando oportunidades con fundamento en los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales. En el artículo también se plantean los principales retos para profesionales del Trabajo Social para recuperar y fortalecer sus expectativas por un mundo mejor, y vencer estereotipos y estigmas que le otorgan una visión de profesión subsidiaria a otras. Además, se afirma en la posibilidad de una nueva perspectiva de intervención social, en el ánimo de contribuir a la satisfacción de las necesidades auténticas.

International audience Web of Science (WoS) is a major citation database for scholarly literature. Green Technology is a dynamic area of research in which majority of research work takes place and includes the subjects like Renewable Energy, Green Chemistry, Ecology, etc. The citation data on Green Technology has been retrieved for a period from 2000 to 2015 from WoS, and aims to analyse the Indian contribution in the subject. A total of 16652 papers were downloaded and analyzed by using Hiscite™. This paper discusses on document type, year-wise, RGR & DT, country-wise, institution-wise, and also verifies the fitness of Bradford's law of scattering. The result shows that the research productivity of the educational and research institutions is much recognized in this subject.

Intro -- Praise for The Social Entrepreneur's Playbook -- Contents -- A Personal Note -- Introduction: The Creation of Social Wealth Out of Poverty -- Phase One--From Possible to Plausible: Pressure Test Your Start-Up Idea -- Chapter 1: Articulate Your Targeted Problem and Substantiate Your Proposed Solution -- Chapter 2: Specify Performance Criteria -- Chapter 3: Define and Segment Your Target Population -- Chapter 4: Understand the Beneficiary Experience -- Chapter 5: Analyze the Most Competitive Alternative -- Chapter 6: Identify Operations Realities -- Chapter 7: Address the Inevitable Sociopolitics -- Chapter 8: Develop a Concept Statement -- Phase Two--From Plausible to Probable: Plan Your Social Enterprise -- Chapter 9: Frame and Scope the Venture -- Chapter 10: Specify Deliverables -- Chapter 11: Establish Assumptions and Checkpoints -- Phase Three--From Probable to Plannable: Launch and Scale Your Social Enterprise -- Chapter 12: Launch Your Enterprise -- Chapter 13: Manage the Upside and Downside -- Chapter 14: Scale Up Your Social Enterprise -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- The Social Entrepreneur's Playbook Advisory Group -- Index -- About the Authors -- About Wharton Digital Press -- About The Wharton School

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This book utilizes cultural psychology as a cultural theory and psychological theory capable of explaining and improving social issues. In particular Vygotskys cultural-historical psychology, and Ratners macro-cultural psychology are invoked to explain racism and mitigate it. This explanation of, and solution to, racism are utilized as a framework for analyzing and refining contemporary movements for racial justice. Among the topics discussed: Macro cultural psychology and Vygotskys Marxist cultural-historical psychology Differentiating psychological racism from economic racism Historical examples of racism during American slavery which reveal their cultural and psychological features Cultural-psychological analysis and refinement of Black Lives Matter, racial capitalism, intersectionism, and Ta-Nehishi Coates work Cultural Psychology, Racism, and Social Justice will be of interest to the fields of social policy, social transformation, psychological theory, cultural theory, and history.

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to answer the question of how scientific excellency can be achieved. The origin of scientific excellency in Iran, national and international experiences concerning the subject has been investigated to review the literature. The authors also designed a process and then a model to test the course. Guilan University of Medical Sciences was selected as a case study for the research.


Design/methodology/approach
The approach used in this paper is from Future Studies, with emphasis on the "Participatory Learning and Action" method. It means that different stakeholders, including the strategic council members, managers, faculty members, students, alumni and non-academic staff, have been involved in different parts of the process.


Findings
After semantic analysis of scientific excellency in the theoretical field; the examination of national and international experiences in universities; the analysis of higher-level documents of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education as well as strategic documents of the university; the determination of the strengths and weaknesses of the Guilan University of Medical Sciences in online survey; the completion of the scientific excellency canvas in the expert panel and finally obtaining other stakeholders, a conceptual model was designed for achieving scientific excellency.


Practical implications
The study of the actions, policies and trends of pioneering universities indicates that it is important to consider issues such as the internationalization of education and research and the modification of university structures. To achieve a superior national and international status, the university must specifically enhance a range of different aspects, from intangible aspects, such as motivation of employees to tangible aspects, such as human resources, structure and facilities.


Originality/value
Scientific excellency is going to be one of main streams between universities to attract top students and researchers from all over the world. There has been little academic attempt on scientific excellency. In this research, first the authors examined the concept of scientific excellency, criteria and measurement in higher education, then based on that case study and participatory action learning method, a conceptual framework to achieve scientific excellency in Iran's higher education system was proposed.

Science is important in environmental regulatory systems for providing an authoritative source of environmental information and bringing legitimacy to decision-making processes. Public participation in scientific research (PPSR) can make science more transparent, accountable and responsive. This thesis analyzes the development of community science as one of the PPSR models and how this concept has been applied in Thailand through two case studies of mining pollution. It focuses on the implications of community science for environmental regulatory enforcement and addressing the legal barriers to more widespread use of community science. In the case studies, ineffective compliance assurance mechanisms and limited space for community engagement in the government's typical regulatory mechanisms pushed the affected community to initiate their own community science approaches. The case studies revealed that the degrees of public participation in scientific studies/environmental monitoring led by the government or government-hired experts are lower than the degree in the research collaboratively done by the community scientists and NGOs/public-interest scholars. The results of the studies between the former and the latter also differed considerably. The selection process for hiring professional scientists to conduct either government-led scientific studies or studies of non-profit groups is as significant as the level of public participation. Communities faced challenges at all stages, including information collection, availability and accessibility of related information, community scientists' ability to identify types of information they needed, and how to organize the information they obtained from authorities. One legal barrier to the effective use of community science, for example, is the lack of public participation mechanisms in mining-related project designs. Local communities thus have limited channels for gathering or providing information into the process, and must heavily rely on external sources of ...

The realisation of cross-border, multinational management of FAIR research data and the related participation of EU Member States in EOSC services require substantial efforts for legal reforms. As highlighted by a gap analysis, the European copyright and data protection legal frameworks present considerable flaws, which call for a prompt intervention by both EU and national policymakers. The issuance of a wide variety of calls for action and/or recommendations on the topic of Open Science, broadly intended, corroborates this need for policy guidance. Most of the existing recommendations focus on a sector, if not a case-specific perspective relating to the stakeholders advancing them. Taking stock and building on old and new developments of the European policy landscape on Open Access, Open Science and FAIR research principles, the recommendations presented in the following pages boast the added value of embracing a holistic perspective on both copyright and data protection laws. Thus encompassing a multi-faceted account of the legislative and non-legislative reforms needed to pave the way towards effective, open, and inclusive research environments in Europe. The recommendations presented here reflect a selection of the most relevant identified shortcomings of the current regulations, which have been operated based on three criteria: The relevance of the legal obstacles at comparative level (e.g., profound regulatory fragmentation and divergences across the five EOSC-Pillar Member States); The relevance of the legal obstacles to the guidelines issued for the benefit of individual stakeholders (e.g., specific needs to facilitate good practises); The urgency of intervention upon provisions, whose modernisation has been deemed to be long overdue. This is a digest of the recommendations included in Deliverable 4.6 "Legal and Policy Framework and Federation Blueprint" and was produced by the EOSC-Pillar project.