Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener 50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The Netherlands.
Tel:
0031-227-604128
Homepage:
http://www.flowman.nl
E-mail:
(nameatendofline)@xs4all.nl : bakensverzet
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: 02
October 2006
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.
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