Joint Agenda Research Articles

Peran dan kontribusi dana zakat sebagai akselerasi penanggulangan kemiskinan masyarakat dhuafa kabupaten Bojonegoro

Poverty alleviation in Indonesia today must be a joint agenda for Indonesian Muslims so that it does not only demand the government to solve the increasing poverty immediately. The way to do that is by paying zakat because most Indonesians are Muslim. Zakat is said to be able to overcome poverty which is increasing because zakat is a collection of capital for people in need, which the government also legalizes. Capital management not only comes from using existing natural resources but also utilizes mandatory donations for people who can afford it. This research is a type of qualitative research using a descriptive approach. Sources of data used are primary and secondary data sources. Data collection techniques using research techniques of observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of this study indicate that the managed zakat funds are very beneficial for the community, especially the people in Bojonegoro Regency. Various programs have helped many people in Lazismu, Bojonegoro Regency. 
 Public interest statement
 Zakat plays a role in overcoming various problems, such as poverty, income inequality, and unemployment. Using zakat funds must be more beneficial for people in need; therefore, Lazismu Bojonegoro Regency must optimize the distribution of zakat funds for people who need them.

Talking about Meaning and Loss with Relatives of Persons with Dementia: An Ethnographic Study in a Nursing Home

Advance care planning (ACP) can help prepare for future losses and decisions to be taken. However, relatives of persons with dementia may wait for healthcare professionals to initiate ACP conversations which may not adequately address their individual information needs. To evaluate inducing and enhancing conversations about meaning and loss, we conducted an ethnographic study on nurse-led ACP conversations using a question prompt list (QPL) on six dementia wards of a nursing home in the Netherlands from January to September 2021. Staff received training in using the QPL, with information and sample questions to inspire relatives to ask their questions, in particular on meaning and loss. Thematic analysis was applied to transcribed interviews and memos of observations. Nursing staff in particular was concerned about having to be available to answer questions continuously. Relatives used the study as an opportunity to get in touch with professionals, and they saw the QPL as an acknowledgement of their needs. There was a mismatch in that staff wished to discuss care goals and complete a care plan, but the relatives wanted to (first) address practical matters. A QPL can be helpful to conversations about meaning and loss, but nursing staff need dedicated time and substantial training. Joint agenda setting before the conversation may help resolve a mismatch in the preferred topics and timing of conversations.

Scientific mobilization of keystone actors for biosphere stewardship

The biosphere crisis requires changes to existing business practices. We ask how corporations can become sustainability leaders, when constrained by multiple barriers to collaboration for biosphere stewardship. We describe how scientists motivated, inspired and engaged with ten of the world’s largest seafood companies, in a collaborative process aimed to enable science-based and systemic transformations (2015–2021). CEOs faced multiple industry crises in 2015 that incentivized novel approaches. New scientific insights, an invitation to collaborate, and a bold vision of transformative change towards ocean stewardship, created new opportunities and direction. Co-creation of solutions resulted in new knowledge and trust, a joint agenda for action, new capacities, international recognition, formalization of an organization, increased policy influence, time-bound goals, and convergence of corporate change. Independently funded scientists helped remove barriers to cooperation, provided means for reflection, and guided corporate strategies and actions toward ocean stewardship. By 2021, multiple individuals exercised leadership and the initiative had transitioned from preliminary and uncomfortable conversations, to a dynamic, operational organization, with capacity to perform global leadership in the seafood industry. Mobilizing transformational agency through learning, collaboration, and innovation represents a cultural evolution with potential to redirect and accelerate corporate action, to the benefit of business, people and the planet.

Discovering the forest in plain sight: a pop-up Symposium focusing on seasonally dry tropical forests.

Discovering the forest in plain sight: a pop-up Symposium focusing on seasonally dry tropical forests.

Implementation of Patient Engagement Tools in Electronic Health Records to Enhance Patient-Centered Communication: Protocol for Feasibility Evaluation and Preliminary Results.

BackgroundPatient–physician communication during clinical encounters is essential to ensure quality of care. Many studies have attempted to improve patient–physician communication. Incorporating patient priorities into agenda setting and medical decision-making are fundamental to patient-centered communication. Efficient and scalable approaches are needed to empower patients to speak up and prepare physicians to respond. Leveraging electronic health records (EHRs) in engaging patients and health care teams has the potential to enhance the integration of patient priorities in clinical encounters. A systematic approach to eliciting and documenting patient priorities before encounters could facilitate effective communication in such encounters.ObjectiveIn this paper, we report the design and implementation of a set of EHR tools built into clinical workflows for facilitating patient–physician joint agenda setting and the documentation of patient concerns in the EHRs for ambulatory encounters.MethodsWe engaged health information technology leaders and users in three health care systems for developing and implementing a set of EHR tools. The goal of these tools is to standardize the elicitation of patient priorities by using a previsit “patient important issue” questionnaire distributed through the patient portal to the EHR. We built additional EHR documentation tools to facilitate patient–staff communication when the staff records the vital signs and the reason for the visit in the EHR while in the examination room, with a simple transmission method for physicians to incorporate patient concerns in EHR notes.ResultsThe study is ongoing. The anticipated completion date for survey data collection is November 2021. A total of 34,037 primary care patients from three health systems (n=26,441; n=5136; and n=2460 separately recruited from each system) used the previsit patient important issue questionnaire in 2020. The adoption of the digital previsit questionnaire during the COVID-19 pandemic was much higher in one health care system because it expanded the use of the questionnaire from physicians participating in trials to all primary care providers midway through the year. It also required the use of this previsit questionnaire for eCheck-ins, which are required for telehealth encounters. Physicians and staff suggested anecdotally that this questionnaire helped patient–clinician communication, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.ConclusionsEHR tools have the potential to facilitate the integration of patient priorities into agenda setting and documentation in real-world primary care practices. Early results suggest the feasibility and acceptability of such digital tools in three health systems. EHR tools can support patient engagement and clinicians’ work during in-person and telehealth visits. They could potentially exert a sustained influence on patient and clinician communication behaviors in contrast to prior ad hoc educational efforts targeting patients or clinicians.Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT03385512; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03385512International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID)DERR1-10.2196/30431

Food Secure Metropolitan Areas: The Transition Support System Approach

Metropolitan areas are highly complex systems where a transition towards food security encompasses a systematic change in the whole food chain. Existing decision support tools that have been developed to inform policy-makers are mostly data-driven but hardly consider the activities and preferences of different stakeholders in the food system. The aim of this article is to contribute to urban food security by combining stakeholder participation with model-driven decision support. For this purpose, we developed and tested the Transition Support System (TSS) approach. In this TSS approach, decision support tools and participatory processes are mutually employed to promote urban food security in an ongoing, stakeholder-inclusive and reflexive process of governance. Our application of the TSS approach in two contrasting case studies highlights how this can contribute towards the development of new perspectives on urban food security, building a joint agenda towards the future and better (mutual) understanding of the issues at stake. We conclude that promoting a transition in the urban food system demands joint learning and reflexive evaluation in order to adapt governance, requiring researchers to play a supporting role in a broader process of change.

Positioning Each Other: A Metasynthesis of Pharmacist-Physician Collaboration

Abstract
 Interprofessional collaboration between different professions within health care is essential to optimize patient outcomes. Community-pharmacists (CPs) and general-practitioners (GPs) are two professions who are encouraged to increase their collaboration. In this metasynthesis we use a meta-ethnographic approach to examine the interpersonal aspects of this collaboration, as perceived by the professionals themselves. The metasynthesis firstly suggests that CPs and GPs have differing storylines about the cooperation between them. Secondly, CPs seem to position their profession in relation to the GPs, whereas GPs do not rely on the CPs to define their professional position. A successful collaboration between the two professions requires the CPs to reposition themselves through adopting a proactive approach towards the GPs. This proactive approach should comprise the delivery of specific clinical advice, as well as taking responsibility for this advice. In this way, they can build a more coinciding storyline of the joint agenda of improved patientcare.

Coordinating sustainability, globalization and urban intelligence with the Habitat III and 2030-SDG agendas: the challenge of sustainable urban development in cities

Currently, there are difficulties in coordinating the three determinants of urban development in cities: Globalization, Urban Intelligence, and Sustainability. This makes it difficult to implement the agendas of the Sustainable Development Goals and Habitat III. This article features an introduction, discussion on the tensions among the determinants of Sustainable Urban Development (SUD). The idea of a sustainable city, which is defended in this research, is proposed thereafter, which seeks to establish the degree of consistency between these three factors. The methodology is described next on: 83 cities were sampled and the simple and multiple correspondence analysis techniques were applied. Then, we move on to the results, which found that while the three phenomena are congruent, it is not the same in every city. It was also evidenced that the greater the urban intelligence of a city, the more sustainable it will be; and the less sustainable it will be if it is oriented only towards globalization. Finally, it is concluded that if a city wants to be sustainable, it must make efforts to coordinate a joint agenda with all three conditioning factors to balance them out and neglect none.

THE SOCIAL COMMUNICATION OF STATE ISLAMIC HIGHER EDUCATION BASED ON SOCIETY: A CONSTRUCTIVISM ANALYSIS

Global development resulting in the outcome document “the future we want” containing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a joint agenda of all world society. At least, there are three sustainable development issues highly required to develop: economic, social, and environmental issue. State Islamic Higher Education institutions has a strategic role to succeed the global development. Its role may not be separated from the existence of society and state. If social communication is not well managed, it may hamper higher education, state and society in achieving their goals. Thus, this paper will deeply analyze the social communication between the academicians of IAIN and the society in local, national and global context. The analysis is conducted using a constructivism approach to comprehensively explain the role of higher education within sustainable development. The research result shows that it is important to develop higher education by involving the society, both as partner and subject to mutually collaborate in developing the higher education quality and the surrounding community independence.

The orchestration process for emergence of clusters of innovation

Purpose Requalification of neglected areas in urban contexts is considered as one of the main challenges for smart cities. Business clusters stand out as mechanisms of innovation for not only the clustered firms but also the territory in which they are located. However, the cluster emergence process is complex and still unknown. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the orchestration process in the emergence of a cluster of innovation (CoI). Design/methodology/approach This study is a qualitative exploratory research in Porto Alegre, a State capital in Southern Brazil, in the region known as 4th District. Data were collected through documentary research, non-participant observation and face-to-face in-depth interviews. Findings Results indicate the importance of alignment among network members, possible difficulties caused by members’ heterogeneity and the need to disseminate information and interaction for the appropriability of knowledge and innovation in the emergence process of CoI. Coordination of actions and joint agenda as facilitators for the construction of a cluster identity emerge as crucial important. Besides, results also highlight that the entrepreneurial process and the perspective of global strategy are essential to build competitive advantage to the region. Research limitations/implications This paper brings a theoretical and managerial contribution to the application of the concept of orchestration to emergence of a CoI. The framework presents network components, orchestration components and the drivers to emergence of a CoI. Originality/value This study proposes a framework to link the orchestration process to the emergence of a CoI. The proposed framework could help policymakers and other actors to enhance the impact of a cluster on the development of the region.

AU–EU relations: Challenges in forging and implementing a joint agenda

ABSTRACTDespite continued engagement between the European Union (EU) and Africa, cooperation continues to present challenges. The EU is frequently viewed as ‘the donor’ and Africa as ‘the recipient’, creating an unequal partnership. This paper analyses EU–Africa cooperation on common priority areas, namely governance, democracy, human rights, peace and security, and migration. While the parties have developed joint frameworks for cooperation and concluded relevant agreements, overall implementation has been limited owing to differences in capacities, perceptions and priorities. The article seeks to analyse how these differences have hindered the implementation of EU–Africa policy frameworks for joint action. Often, solutions are seen as imposed instead of owned – especially in Africa. Building trust is thus essential, through redefining the basis for cooperation between the EU and Africa and analysing what has and has not worked in the implementation of their cooperation framework.

Who sets the agenda on student engagement?

The rise in UK university fees has prompted significant investment in the student experience, with increased emphasis on an agenda that promotes student engagement and partnership. Government papers, both white and green, have set out a policymaking agenda and have led to a reorganisation of the UK higher education funding structures, with the dissolution of long-standing funding bodies into the Office for Students. This enshrines chapter B6 of the QAA UK quality code for higher education with regard to student engagement and would appear to be a positive move forward. However, the Office for Students has limited student representation and this raises the question: ‘Who sets this agenda and who are the stakeholders?’ This opinion piece seeks both to highlight the necessity for a joint agenda-setting approach and to engage the community in developing a joint agenda on student engagement and partnership.

Interaksi interpersonal dan stres kerja dosen di STIKES X Bengkulu

Interpersonal interaction and lecturer work stress in private universityPurposeThis paper discussed how and why the weakness of interpersonal interaction can lead to lecturer work stress.MethodThis analytic survey research was conducted with a cross-sectional approach involving 36 permanent lecturers of a private university. The independent variables were the working period and interpersonal interaction, the dependent variable was the work stress.ResultsThis paper found 50% of lecturers still lack interpersonal interaction. The problem was in communication among lecturers and university leaders, and awareness to build interpersonal interaction in the work environment. Lecturers with good interpersonal interactions have lower stress levels. Social support is very useful to strengthen the psychological aspects of lecturers in their activities.ConclusionThis paper concluded the relationship between interpersonal interaction with work stress. University need to regularly facilitate joint agenda for all staff to encourage close interpersonal interaction.

Competitividad y desarrollo humano en el Eje Cafetero

En este trabajo, inicialmente se hace un análisis sobre los conceptos de desarrollo humano y competitividad a la vez que se muestra la inseparable relación entre ambos como bucle orgánico: si queremos competitividad necesitamos desarrollo humano y viceversa, si queremos desarrollo humano necesitamos competitividad. Luego se presenta el estado actual del desarrollo y la competitividad del Eje Cafetero; después se trata el tema de los indicadores de competitividad y las tendencias actuales para, finalmente, hacer una serie de hipótesis y preguntas orientadoras con el fin de proponer la elaboración de una agenda conjunta que vele por la calidad de vida de los habitantes del Eje Cafetero y la competitividad de la región

Healthy Urban Environments for Children and Young People: A Systematic Review of Intervention Studies

Background Policy makers, urban planners and practitioners have a significant role in implementing and influencing policies which enable people to live healthier lives, including interventions that support active travel. Systematic review evidence derived from cross-sectional or longitudinal studies has identified components of the built environment associated with physical inactivity. However, the evidence for intervention studies is less clear, in particular which changes to an existing built environment are good for health, and there is a dearth of evidence in relation to children and adolescents. Methods We conducted a systematic review. A comprehensive search strategy was applied to the following databases from inception to 29 October 2014: Embase; Geobase; Medline; PsycINFO; Transportation Research Information Services, and; ISI Web of Science & ISI Proceedings. Intervention studies (randomised controlled trial, controlled trial, controlled before and after, before and after, interrupted time series) were eligible if they: included a change to the built environment; reported outcomes in relation to children and young people's physical or mental health and well-being, or health behaviours; were undertaken in urban areas; were published in English, and; were undertaken in high-income countries. Results 7645 records were reviewed and 113 full text studies assessed for eligibility: 33 relevant primary studies in relation to 27 separate interventions were included in the review. Interventions were predominantly undertaken in the United States of America ( n =17) with others conducted in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom. The impact of changes to the built environment on road traffic safety measures was examined in three studies, and 15 studies examined built environment interventions to promote active travel. Evidence for effectiveness of such interventions is at present weak and compounded by the study designs which may be opportunistic, frequently incorporate non-randomised allocation of study sites, use subjective outcome measures, and do not incorporate follow-up of study participants. Although the majority of studies had a serious risk of bias, there was some evidence of effectiveness of in relation road safety measures and active travel. Conclusions Future research studies should involve collaborations between researchers, policy makers and planners, and consider using randomised controlled study designs which incorporate objective outcome measures. A joint agenda to generate and act upon the best available evidence will aid decision-making for those who must choose between, or prioritise, different options to improve the health and well-being of children and young people who live in urban environments.

New Horizons for Germany's Africa Policy

This paper deals with Germany’s new Africa policy. The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) presented a new Africa concept in January 2017. The BMZ wants to counter the further marginalisation of Africa with inclusive and sustainable growth. Chancellor Angela Merkel will explain her new policy for Africa at the G20 summit in Hamburg in July 2017, in an attempt to gain the approval of the other G20 members for focused cooperation with Africa. The paper argues that it remains solely the duty of African states to take their development into their own hands. Cooperation can support this process, but it cannot assume what is each state’s individual responsibility. The Marshall Plan with Africa aims to develop a joint agenda with the countries of Africa. Yet because the African countries did not participate in developing the concept, the plan derived so far is more of a plan for Africa, identifying which measures the BMZ would like to implement in order to contribute to sustainable and inclusive economic growth in Africa. Africa is becoming increasingly differentiated, and developing a joint strategy with individual countries or groups of countries that reflects the varying speeds at which changes are occurring would be a decisive step. The plan does not cover sufficient ground on this issue. In order to develop a coherent Africa concept for the German federal government, the participation of the most important ministries needs to be improved, and the chancellor needs to be in charge of the overall management. The paper concludes that Germany’s Africa policy needs to be redesigned. The Marshall Plan has generated a shift, but it does not provide sufficient guidance to new horizons and away from the well-beaten track of traditional development cooperation. The departure to a new age that is defined by increased cooperation with democratic African countries which are capable of reform, and by a courageous and consistent stance in relation to non-democratic countries, has not yet taken place.

Do International Health Partnerships contribute to reverse innovation? a mixed methods study of THET-supported partnerships in the UK

BackgroundInternational health partnerships (IHPs) are changing, with an increased emphasis on mutual accountability and joint agenda setting for both the high- and the low- or middle-income country (LMIC) partners. There is now an important focus on the bi-directionality of learning however for the UK partners, this typically focuses on learning at the individual level, through personal and professional development. We sought to evaluate whether this learning also takes the shape of ‘Reverse Innovation’ –when an idea conceived in a low-income country is subsequently adopted in a higher-income country.MethodsThis mixed methods study used an initial scoping survey of all the UK-leads of the Tropical Health Education Trust (THET)-supported International Health Partnerships (n = 114) to ascertain the extent to which the IHPs are or have been vehicles for Reverse Innovation. The survey formed the sampling frame for further deep-dive interviews to focus on volunteers’ experiences and attitudes to learning from LMICs. Interviews of IHP leads (n = 12) were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Survey data was analysed descriptively. Interview transcripts were coded thematically, using an inductive approach.ResultsSurvey response rate was 27% (n = 34). The majority (70%) strongly agreed that supporting LMIC partners best described the mission of the partnership but only 13% of respondents strongly agreed that learning about new innovations and models was a primary mission of their partnership. Although more than half of respondents reported having observed innovative practice in the LMIC, only one IHP respondent indicated that this has led to Reverse Innovation. Interviews with a sample of survey respondents revealed themes primarily around how learning is conceptualised, but also a central power imbalance between the UK and LMIC partners. Paternalistic notions of knowledge could be traced to partnership power dynamics and latent attitudes to LMICs.ConclusionsGiven the global flow of innovation, if High-income countries (HICs) are to benefit from LMIC practices, it is paramount to keep an open mind about where such learning can come from. Making the potential for learning more explicit and facilitating innovation dissemination upon return will ultimately underpin the success of adoption.

Boundary work for implementing adaptive management: A water sector application

Boundary work, defined as effort to mediate between knowledge and action, is a promising approach for facilitating knowledge co-production for sustainable development. Here, we investigate a case study of knowledge co-production, to assess the applicability of boundary work as a conceptual framework to support implementing adaptive management in the water sector. We refer to a boundary work classification recently proposed by Clark et al., (2016), based on three types of knowledge uses, i.e. enlightenment, decision-, and negotiation-support, and three types of sources, i.e. personal expertise, single, and multiple communities of expertise. Our empirical results confirm boundary work has been crucial for the three types of knowledge use. For enlightenment and decision-support, effective interaction among knowledge producers and users was achieved through diverse boundary work practices, including joint agenda setting, and sharing of data and expertise. This initial boundary work eased subsequent knowledge co-production for decision-support and negotiations, in combination with stepping up of cooperation between relevant actors, suitable legislation and pressure for problem solving. Our analysis highlighted the temporal dimension matters - building trust around enlightenment first, and then using this as a basis for managing knowledge co-production for decision-, and negotiation support. We reconfirmed that boundary work is not a single time achievement, rather is a dynamic process, and we emphasized the importance of key actors driving the process, such as water utilities. Our results provide a rich case study of how strategic boundary work can facilitate knowledge co-production for adaptive management in the water sector. The boundary work practices employed here could also be transferred to other cases. Water utilities, as intermediaries between providers and beneficiaries of the important water-related ecosystem service of clean water provision, can indeed serve as key actors for initiating such boundary work practices.

Integracja gospodarcza jako strategiczny atut: Euroazjatycka Unia Gospodarcza i Unia Europejska

The article analyses integration process in the post-soviet space as well as Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) as a product of Eurasian integration. The EEU as newly created integration structure has a problem of finding the suitable form of interrelations with the European Union – the biggest integration structure ever. The issue of finding common grounds between the EEU and the EU especially important given the fact that the Eurasian Union is a bloc led by Russia – one of the biggest European trade partner and long-standing political counterpart, which within a couple of years is at odds with the EU due to the political problems, connected with the Ukrainian conflict as well as the geopolitical tension between Russia and the West. The start of the dialogue between the EU and the EEU, which has the certain potential, seems rather unlike to place in short- and medium-term perspective. In order to start the dialogue both parties have to solve not only economic issues (institutionalization of relationship, harmonization of trade), but also improve political agenda by starting to elaborate a joint agenda. The main point for the time being: the interrelationship between the EEU and the EU could evolve within the co-existence scenario, which envisages maintenance of the current status-quo – noninstitutionalized relationship. In order to change it as well as to single out the appropriate approach for framing the future relationship with the Eurasian Economic Union the European Union should take into account many factors, putting the special emphasis on the Russia’s role within the EEU as well as conflicting nature of Eurasian project, which is only to prove its viability as integration structure.

Nursing and assistance to family planning at the primary attention: The contraception’s interface

Introduction: The familiar planning is represented as an essential component at the Primary Attention to health, in which conforms the entrance door to the acting promotion and health prevention. Above all, it is noticed that the care at this sphere is marked by action and service fragmentation, without programming the activities by the team, unavailability of contraceptive Technologies, as by the lack of permanent education turned to those professionals. Given the above, the objective was to analyze the assistance according to the familiar planning conducted by the nurse at the Primary Attention under the integral health attention perspective. Method: Qualitative Research, exploratory and descriptive, conducted with fifteen nurses at the primary care from Iguatu in Ceara, Brazil, in February and March 2015, through a semi-structured interview. The empirical data were organized through contents analysis. Results: The knowledge about the familiar program planning assumptions, however, in practice, the assistance turned to the behavior-complains principle, given that some units were restricted to the method delivery, with perpetuation of curative actions, over the Professionals joint agenda elaboration. Final Consideration: It is effective the need for union between the theory and practice at the nursing living at the familiar planning, when integrality, interdisciplinary and intersectoriality would justify the work process.