Philippine Social Science Center Don Mariano Marcos Avenue, UP

. \ - • • • • • • • •••• • • • • • • , • ••• . - • • • • • • / , Office Address: Philippine Social Science Center Don Mariano Marcos Avenue, U.P., Diliman, Quezon City P.O. Box 205, U.P. Post Office, Diliman, Q.C. 3004, Philippines Cable Address: PHILSOCSCI, Manila AULIR>Ir£ &X:IAL SCIOCE COU((I~ IOC. ANNUAl REPORT CALENDAR YEAR 1986 Submitted to the EXecutive Council During its Annual Meeting on December 13, 1986 CAROLINA G. HERNANDEZ, Ph. D. Chairman. Executive Board .I Quezon City, Philippines I take pleasure in submitting the annual report of the pssc for Calendar Year 1986. This report aovers the PSSC's main thrusts and aacomplishments in advocacy, institutional development, research, training, information dissemination~ ooZlaboration and linkage~ administration and management, and general financiaZ status. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page CHAIR~1AN'S REPORT Main Thrusts and Accomplishments: An Overview •• • ••••.• . ..... .. 1 The Year in Retrospect Advocacy .. .. ... .. .. 10 InstitutionaZ DeveZopment .. .. 19 Research ••••••••••••••••••••• 24 Information .Dissemination . ... 30 Co Zlaborairion and Linkage • • 0 • • • • • • • 37 Administpation and Management .. ·. 50 Future Undertakings . ..... ....... 55 Problems and Prospects ..... .. 73 TREASURER'S REPORT 80 Audi ted PinaneiaZ Repopt ... .. .. 90 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .. .. · . 101 APPENDICES Appendix A - List of Affiliate Organizations of the Resources for People Program (RPP) •••••••••• 104 Appendix B - List of Social Scientists Who Have Volunteered to the RPP · . 106 Appendie C- PSSC Representation in Con Com Regional Public Consultations ••••• . .. 108 Appendix D- PSSC Discretionary Research Awards Program Grantees, First to Third Quarter, _ 1986 •••• •••••• 110 Appendix E- Distribution of DRAP Grantees by Discipline, 1972 to Third Quarter of 1986 • 114 Appendix F- List of Book Suppliers of the PSSC Central Subscription Service (As of October 1986) •••••• ••• .. 115 Appendix G - Social Science Representatives to the Three-country Consultative Meeting, Manil~4-8 July 1986 ••••••• 116 Appendix H Participants in the First I Southeast Asian Committee Meeting of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies •• . ... 117 Appendix I - Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development Asian Fellow- ship Program Fellows,1986 • • • • • 118 Appendix J- List of Participants to the Winrock International Ministry of AgriCUlture and Food Asian Study Tour .••... .. 121 Appendix K- Activities of Regular Member Associations, January to September 1986 • • • • • • • • ... .. 122 Appendix L - Brief Reports of PSSC Associate Member Organizations ••• .. ... 124 Appendix M - Important Functions Held at the PSSCenter, CY 1986 •••••• 136 Appendix N - Library Acquisitions by Discipline, as of 1986 •••••• 142 Appendix 0 - PSSC Regular, Associate and Research Network Members, CY 1986 . .. • • • 143 Appendix P- List of Regular Members' Sets of Officers for 1986 • • • • • • • • • • • • • 146 Appendix Q - List of PSSC Executive Board Members (Calendar Years 1968 to 1986) ••• ••• 150 ,.f ANNUAL REPORT CALENDAR YEAR 1986 MAIN THRUSTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS: AN OVERVIEW The events of the past year have dictated that the Philippine Social Science Council intensify its efforts to maximize the impact of the social sciences on the national life. New needs and new demands which have evolved as a result of these even~s have necessarily shaped the Council's activities under the rapidly changing conditions of a steadily growing Philippine society. Thus, for a start, the Council reviewed its programs and assessed its directions in the light of the objectives set in a major document it drew up for the decade, Agenda for the 80's. The mid-decade assessment basically reviewed the COuncil's directions, performance and accomplishments from 1980-85, vis-a-vis the objectives set in the Agenda for the 80's. More importantly, the document identified the areas that have to be strengthened by the Council and the existing challenges that have to be tackled for the rest of the decade. Thus with a clearer grasp of its past and its present, the Council surged forward in 1986 and accomplished what are now basically contained in this annual report. The PSSC Annual Report, CY 1986 2 In the area of advocacy, the most noteworthy accomplisll- ments are the Resources for People Program (RPP) and the creation of a Task Force to assist the Constitutional Commission. The RPP was conceived out of the felt need 'of Filipino social scientists to deviate from an elitist tradition and to be relevant and useful to people's organizations and community groups. Since its launching on March 8, 1986, this program has already made available various forms of services to people's organizations and the general public in the form of administra- tive or secretariat support, referrals for information needs, support for mobilization , lobbying and other forms of social actions on issues pertinent to the drafting of the Constitution, organization of dialogues or fora to thresh out vital concerns, and facilitation for the use of the PSSCenter's facilities. The ConCom Task Force was the Council's direct response to President Aquino's call for support and involvement in the drafting of the New Constitution. It was created to serve as a resource base for the individual Commissioners and the pertinent Constitutional Committees. The Task Force submitted consolidated studies, position papers and resource statements on issues that are within the expertise of tlle Council. It also fielded volunteer social scientists to serve as facilitators or resource coordinators in public consultations held in various parts of the country. Furthermore, aside from manpower assistance, building facilities of the Council were offered as venues , ,. The PSSC Annual Report, CY 1986 3 for the public consultations. In addition to the two aforementioned activities, the Council continued to organize symposia or fora whereby issues of vital concern can be discussed and possibly resolved through a dialogue of the various pUblics. The second phase of the Research Consortia Program (RCP) which was launched in July 1985, remains to date, the Council's most visible accomplishment in the area of institutional development. The year in review was marked by the decentralization of social science resources and expert i se in the regions. For the research component of the program, the Visayas Research Consortium (VRC) started preparations for a study on "The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Visayan Households: Focus on Women and Children." The Eastern Hindanao Area Research Consortium (EtffiRC) on one hand, concentrated on a study on "The Impact of the Shift r in Current Development Strategies on Rural Households in Eastern Hindanao. 1l A significant event of the RCP in early 1986 was the book II launching of PSSC's "Faces of Philippine Poverty: Four Cases fron: the Visayas" on May 23, 1986. The book is a compilation of research reports on regional poverty which were done by the VRC under the first phase of the RCP. The book was successfully produced through the collaboration of four academic institutions in the Visayas. The PSSC Annual Report, CY 1986 4 The Council, however, did not only strive for the strength- ening of its linkages with regional social science institutions to decentralize social science expertise. Conscious of its· primary objective of promoting professional development among Filipino socinl scientists, the Council also revived its exchange program with che Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences (CASS), as part of a cultural agreement signed between the Philippines and the People's Republic of China (PROC). The program is aimed at fostering more collaborative and dynamic exchanges between the two cultures, particularly in the area of the social sciences, by giving scholars the opportunity to have a first-hand experience of the current conditions of the host country. For this year, Prof. Edgardo B. Maranan of the UP Asian Center was unanimously selected as the Council's exchange scholar to PROC. In the area of research, the Council released to the - public its first survey under the Measuring the Public Pulse (~~P) project. The MPP is a series of quick-count sociopolitical polls intended to gauge the people's perceptions on issues affecting not only their lives but Philippine society as well. The first survey of the l4PP series (MPP.1) was conducted for three months and was completed in December 1985. It contained interesting and useful findings on:: 1) people's views on the government and the forthcoming elections; 2) their voting preferences; 3) their level of trust in government institutions, leading The PSSC Annual Report, CY 1986 5 government officials and opposition figures; 4) the prevailing economic crisis; 5) the US military bases, 7) the multinational corporations; 8) the NPAj and 9) divorce. .' As~'def rom th e MPP, the Counc~'lhas al'so g~ven extens~veI. attention to its Discretionary Research Awards Program (DRAP) which is making its steady contribution to the development of ...' future generation Filipino social scientists. As of Septembe~ 1986, 28 grantees were added to the list of DRAP beneficiaries, bringing the total number of DRAP grantees to 297. To respond to the increasing need for effective information dissemination, the Council laid the groundwork for the PSS Information Network (INFONET) in order to provide adequate and -timely social science information to the academic, government and private sectors in the

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