Developing Performance Assessment Instruments For Local Organizations in Ecological Restoration As Part of The Cross-Cutting Capacity Development (CCCD-UNDP) Project In Indonesia

Using the CCCD project as the locus of study, this paper reconstructs the empowerment process to reveal and arrange the instruments used at each empowerment stage. The performance measurement instrument was used to measure whether the organization involved in the project was related to project activities directly or indirectly. These two activities helped us compile criteria for the various organizations involved and conceptually draw the pattern of organizational relationships. Findings showed three main processes: (1) the process of identifying and selecting organizations, (2) the process of mentoring and facilitation, and (3) the process of evaluation and follow-up plan. The organizations or groups were divided into primary, secondary, and tertiary groups. Primary groups were directly related and involved in the project. Secondary groups could be involved and did not depend on funding and assistants. Tertiary groups did not need to be involved unless they had such political consequences to influence other groups. The group itself took part in decision-making about management patterns. The pattern could not be separated from the dynamics of policies, markets, and local village and supra-village politics. Based on these findings, the CCCD project confirms that a group empowerment approach must focus on the substantive aspect of achieving project goals, while the procedural aspect merely supports the administrative arrangement so objectives can be achieved more efficiently.

Reflective Practices to Study Group Dynamics: Implement Empowerment and Understand the Functioning of Groups

Introduction: Individual and group reflection practices are qualitative methods useful in a group context to develop group skills and more awareness of the dynamics that take place within the group to which one belongs.Aim: The aim of this work is to highlight how individual reflective practices and group reflections contribute to the development of group skills. More specifically, the effectiveness of relevant group dynamics is investigated, with the aim of creating a space for reflection, and activation for individual and group empowerment.Participants: The participants were 130 university students (86% female), resided in northwestern Italy, and had a mean age of 27.5 years (SD = 7.52). They were randomly divided into 23 groups (ranged from four to nine members).Method: The participants engaged in several online training activities and at the end of every activity they completed individual reflection practice in which they presented both positive and negative aspects related to the group experiences. Then they participated in online group reflections that allowed them to reflect on the group dynamics, particular attention given to factors such as climate, participation and roles played by each participant in a variety of training activities. This study analyzes 130 individual reflective practices and 23 group reflections. The data collected through individual reflective practices and the transcripts of the group reflections were analyzed using grounded theory. Two independent judges analyzed and categorized the data and then identified the main common categories that emerged by the support of Nvivo software.Results: From the analysis of the content, it is determined that the participants, based on the construction of the individual and group reflections, paid greater attention to the dynamics that occurred within the group during the various activities in which they participated, thus allowing them to be more aware of the various factors that affected the importance attributed to the different roles, the climate, and their active participation.Conclusion: Combined, these factors allowed participants to strengthen their relationships with each other and enhance the cohesion of the group.

Community Health and Public Health Nurses: Case Study in Times of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has given more relevance to identifying the common and specific competencies of specialized nurses in community health and public health, presenting and characterizing their interventions, relations with health indicators in the population, identifying factors that facilitate their performance, and their respective regulations. A qualitative case study was undertaken with 31 nurses from a group of health centers and data collection by interviews, direct observation, and documents analysis. The flow model and an interpretive matrix, with two strategies and two techniques, was used for the analysis and discussion. The majority of participants were female, who were aware of and familiar with the specific and defined competencies, which they put into practice. They recognize their activities as important and feel happy where they are and doing what they do. They have good a knowledge of the regulations that concern them. They consider themselves well prepared and available to intervene in many dimensions, such as epidemiological surveillance, management, and group empowerment, contributing to good health indexes and health sustainability. Expected changes are related to their potential contributions to advance the nursing profession, which this pandemic has highlighted.

Social Entrepreneurship, Nila Satria Banyumas Cooperative, Canvas Perspective on Islamic Business and Economic Models

The need for Muslim entrepreneurs / prospective entrepreneurs to be involved in solving the problem of poverty. One of them is by building social entrepreneurship that is in line with the principles of sharia economics and in accordance with the conditions of society's problems. In the field, there are various models of social entrepreneurship. With the conditions of dynamic community and organizational problems, it is possible to produce new social entrepreneurship models that can enrich existing social entrepreneurship models, especially those related to the context in Indonesia. However, studies related to social entrepreneurship models in Indonesia are still limited. Meanwhile, the discussion of social entrepreneurship with Islamic economics is only at the conceptual level. So that it does not provide an overview of the application of both. This study focuses on providing an overview of the social entrepreneurship model in the Nira Satria cooperative based on the business model canvas in the Indonesian context and the principles of Islamic economics. The research method is qualitative using literature data sources. The Nira Satria Cooperative Model is a community based social enterprise because 1) the user segment is members of the Nira Satria Cooperative as beneficiaries and consumers who use sugar ants, 2) Social value proposition is group empowerment in the form of individuals 3) managed by volunteers who come from cooperative members (farmers sugar) and NGOs. 4) the revenue comes from social / grants from the government and social institutions, and comes from mandatory membership fees. 5) Ownership and control schemes, namely collective and democratic. 6) has a sustainability goal. The description of the business model is in line with the principles of sharia economics.

African American Sculpture and Sculptors

Beyond monographic texts dedicated to single artists, it is rare to find book-length studies that solely focus African American sculpture—or, sculpture made by African Americans. The reasons for this are many and complex. Although sculpture was a mainstay of 19th-century arts education in Europe and the Americas, in the latter half of the 20th century sculpture was newly questioned as a stable category of production. Between the 18th century and today media-specific practices have been broadly replaced with multimedia ones. This begs the question: what constitutes sculpture in any history or reference text that purports to span a number of centuries? An artist like Renée Green (b. 1959), for example, creates sculpture—discrete, three-dimensional objects—but also multi-part environmental installations, sound works, videos, architecture, and websites, as well as photography and prints. In light of these historical shifts, this bibliography takes a broad view of sculpture, and includes the work of self-described sculptors, such as the 19th-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis, as well as those with pluralistic practices like Green. Similarly, the category of “African American” has come under scrutiny, as the various signifiers of such an identity (for example, phenotype and/or ancestry) shift with broader social, economic, aesthetic, and political systems. Terminology has also changed a great deal since the 18th century—with popular linguistic designations moving from “negro,” to “colored,” to “black,” to “Afro-American,” to “African American,” and back to “black” again. Each contains historical political import, tied to both in-group empowerment and extrinsic, sometimes derogatory, uses. The visual arts are uniquely positioned to approach, understand, question, and challenge these changing social and semiotic conditions, and the anxieties and pleasures of black identification are often registered in nuanced and multifaceted ways within the realm of the visual. It would be a mistake to assume that the term “African American” encompassed the full political force of all artists included here, many of whom experience(d) the reality of intersectional identities and oppressions attached to gender, race, ability, class, and sexuality. For a more complete accounting of the visual arts beyond sculpture, see the separate Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies article Visual Arts.

Structural Relationship of Factors Affecting the Performance of Oil & Gas Company: Case Study of Adnoc

This paper presents the development and analysis of Structural Equation Model (SEM) on factors affecting the performance oil & gas company. The model was constructed based on the model framework where it involved 5 groups of independent factors affecting the performance of oil & gas company and one group of dependent of the performance. Data collected from the 100 respondents of questionnaire survey among employees of the company were used in the model development. Assessments at measurement level of the model found that for the 5 most important groups of factors affecting oil & gas company are effective support system (J-group), empowerment (L-group), supporting employees (M-group), creativity and innovation (C-group), and training regularly (T-group). Assessment at structural level involved omitting one group for each iteration to evaluate the effect size and also involved bootstrapping process. It was found the model has achieved the overall model of fit known as GoF with the value of 0.436 indicating large validating power. Hopefully the study contributed either directly or indirectly to the academic and practitioners related to oil & gas industry.

PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT MELALUI PENINGKATAN KETERAMPILAN USAHA OLAHAN HASIL PERIKANAN

ABSTRAK Tujuan utama kegiatan pengabdian ini adalah 1) Meningkatkan sikap peduli, empati mahasiswa terhadap kondisi perekonomian masyarakat melalui penerapan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi (IPTEKS) dalam olahan hasil perikanan serta memberikan pelayanan keilmuan praktis dan bantuan teknologi riil yang sangat dibutuhkan masyarakat. 2) Mengembangkan semangat entrepreneurship dengan berpikir kreatif dalam memecahkan masalah dan persoalan kelompok masyarakat dengan mengembangkan pola kemandirian usaha perikanan melalui penerapan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi (IPTEKS) dalam olahan hasil perikanan. Metode yang diterapkan dalam kerangka pemberdayaan kelompok masyarakat pada program pengabdian adalah antara lain: kegiatan observasi, wawancara, focus group discussion (FGD), penyuluhan, pelatihan,pendampingan, pembimbingan, monitoring dan evaluasi. Hasil evaluasi kegiatan pengabdian menunjukkan bahwa capaian program utama dan program tambahan pengabdian di Desa Modelomo Kecamatan Kabila Bone Kabupaten Bone Bolango dapat dilaksanakan dan terealisasi 100% sesuai dengan rencana dan kesepakatan semua pihak termasuk aparat desa, masyarakat dan tim pengabdi. Hasil evaluasi tingkat pemahaman tentang penguasaan materi pengabdian diperoleh hasil bahwa masyarakat sekitar 85 % terjadi peningkatan wawasan, pengetahuan dan pemahaman tentang penerapan ilmu dan teknologi dalam pembuatan olahan hasil perikanan berupa krupuk cakalang dan sosis ikan. Kata Kunci : Pemberdayaan, masyarakat, olahan hasil perikanan ABSTRACT The main objectives of this dedication activity are 1) Improving students' caring and empathy attitudes towards the economic conditions of the society through the application of science and technology (IPTEKS) in processed fishery products and providing practical scientific services and real technology assistance that is needed by the society. 2) Developing the spirit of entrepreneurship by thinking creatively in solving problems and problems of society groups by developing patterns of independence of fisheries businesses through the application of science and technology (IPTEKS) in processed fishery products. The methods applied in the framework of society group empowerment in the service program include: observation activities, interviews, focus group discussions (FGD), counseling, training, mentoring, guidance, monitoring and evaluation The evaluation results of society service activities show that the main program achievements and additional service programs in Modelomo Village, Kabila Bone District, Bone Bolango District can be implemented and realized 100% in accordance with the plans and agreements of all parties including village officials, the society and the service team. The results of the evaluation level of material understanding obtained that the society around 85% there was an increase in insight, knowledge and understanding of the application of science and technology in the manufacture of processed fishery products in the form of cakalang crackers and fish sausages. Keywords: Empowerment, society, processed fishery products