Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener
50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The
Tel:
0031-227-604128
Homepage:
http://www.flowman.nl
E-mail:
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Incorporating innovative
social, financial, economic, local administrative and productive structures,
numerous renewable energy applications, with an important role for women in
poverty alleviation in rural and poor urban environments.
"Money is not the key that
opens the gates of the market but the bolt that bars them"
Gesell, Silvio The Natural
Economic Order
Revised English edition, Peter
Owen, London 1958, page 228
Edition 11:
The
three main lines of information flow foreseen under the project are:
- Vertical, from project coordinator (who
would also liaise with external sources involved, such as education authorities,
schools, health authorities, clinics) to well commission level to tank
commission level to individual user and return back up the line
-
Horizontal, for instance within the LETS groups and between LETS groups, between
tank commissions, and between well commissions
- Combination of both -
through a project-level radio station
- Project website mainly as a source
for b) and for information sharing in general for (c) below
-Through
local consultants with small businesses set up under interest-free micro-loans
under the projects, who help local people choose crops to grow, instruct on
agricultural methods, give professional advice on productivity questions etc.
-Local translation bureaus set up under interest-free micro loans under the
projects to put material into a form the local people can understand.
-Activity groups working under the LETS systems with any of the parties in
a), such as the Health Clubs foreseen, groups of actors etc.
-Local schools,
information and courses for children and, eventually, adults.
-
Incoming through information shops set up as private businesses (as in b) "
local consultants") under the projects. These would have telephones, faxes,
computers.
- Outgoing, through cultural and economic websites ( recent
experiments in India), where individual interest groups make their cultural
activities and their wares known to the outside world, either independently or
through the information shops.
Within
each of the above specific sectors, rather complex interdisciplinary
relationships can arise. Just to cite one typical example, to make the
integrated sanitation system foreseen work, users need to be advised on the
benefits of better hygiene (Health Clubs) then practise what they have learned
and install their new toilet (and, eventually, water harvesting) systems. A
system of cooperative inspection then needs to be put in place. A home
inspection report has to be developed. Local women nominated by the tank
committees have to be trained to apply the report system and to advise and help
users where they are doing something wrong. Women nominated by the well
commissions have to be trained to monitor the work of the local inspectors. A
woman nominated by the (unified) well commissions will have to check the work of
the well commission monitors. Information and experiences would need to be
exchanged both vertically and horizontally under a).
The
same users will at the same time need separate instruction on how best to
recycle their urine, and later, their composted faeces. Basic recommendations
will be developed under the projects for this, although single users, the local
tank commissions, or the project coordinator could also obtain consultancy under
b). Where the project supplies recommendations, cooperative structures similar
to those described for hygiene would need to be developed to make sure they are
applied properly.
List of drawings and
graphs.
Typical list of maps.
List of key
words.
List of
abbreviations used.
Documents for
funding applications.