Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener
50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The
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 12:
New
Horizons for (project area) : Sustainable integrated development in the (project
area) in the (region) of (host country)
Incorporating
hygiene education, drinking water supply and sanitation through the formation of
local self-managed social, financial and productive
structures.
Villages |
Inhabitants |
Litres/day |
Boreholes/wells |
Hand-pumps |
Solar
pumps |
Watts
installed |
|
27071 |
0781 |
19 |
057 |
120 |
036000 | |
|
20424 |
0515 |
13 |
039 |
069 |
020700 | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
47495 |
1296 |
32 |
96 |
189 |
56700 |
Total
eligible cost of the action :< EUR 5.000.000 >
Contribution requested
from (name of funding agency or donor): < EUR 3.707.150 >
% of the
total eligible cost of the action requested: 74,143 %
Duration
of the action:
24 months.
Global
objectives:
Sustainable
integrated development through the formation of innovative social, financial and
productive structures and services for the benefit of all of the inhabitants in
the project area, including but not limited to the provision of hygiene education,
drinking water and sanitation facilities.
Specific
objectives:
An
entire range of self-managed social, financial, and productive structures and
services, including but not limited to 200 Health Clubs and on-going hygiene
education courses in the schools in the project area, 200 local social
structures, 35 intermediate social structures and one management unit for the
supply of distributed clean drinking water; 10000 eco-sanitation systems
installed in users’ homes; 200 study rooms with photovoltaic lighting for study
purposes; 20000 improved cooking stoves for the elimination of smoke
hazards in and around homes and structures for the production of mini-briquettes
to fuel them; waste recycling structures; cooperative local money and formal
money financial structures the project area, etc. etc
Partners:
(Usually
partners are not required).
Target
groups:
The
entire population in the project area, being officially (number – usually about
50.000) , estimated for the project to be (number).
Final
beneficiaries:
The
entire population in the project area, being officially (number – usually about
50.000) , estimated for the project to be (number). Success of this pilot
project in (host country) should lead to the adoption of national development
strategy in (host county) on the basis of the principles applied for the first
time there in this project.
Planned
results:
200
tank commissions with solar powered distributed drinking water systems; 35 well
commissions with back-up drinking water installations and washing places; 1
local money LETS structure; 1 interest-free micro-credit structure for
productivity increase (on an average
Euro 1500 per family over ten years); 200 Health Clubs for hygiene
education and hygiene education courses in the schools in the project area;
10000 eco-sanitation systems installed in users’ homes (of which 1000 delivered
by the close of the 24 months’ executive period); 200 photovoltaic lighting
systems for study purposes; 1 complete system for waste recycling; 1 complete
system for the manufacture and installation of 20000 improved cooking stoves in
users’ homes (elimination of smoke hazards) and for the manufacture of
mini-briquettes for them; elimination of the consumption of wood for cooking;
10000 systems for (non potable) rain-water harvesting for personal uses (the
first systems to be delivered before the close of the 24 months’ executive
period) ; creation of about 4000 jobs.
Main
activities:
Formation
through a series of Moraisian workshops of the necessary social, financial, and
productive structures necessary for the creation of a cooperative interest-free
inflation-free local economy; activities of the 200 Health Clubs set up;
on-going hygiene education lessons in the schools; the production, installation
and management of 200 distributed drinking water structures for the entire
population in the project area; the production, installation and management of
10000 independent dry composting eco-sanitation systems in users’ homes; and all
of the basic services necessary for a good quality of life in the project area,
including but not limited to the elimination of smoke hazards in and around
homes, waste recycling, and interest-free cooperative local money and formal money
micro-credit structures for productivity increase.
Describe
the general goals and the specific goals of the action.
Long
term goals:
a)To
sustain on-going improvement of the general quality of life well-being and
health of the local people.
b)To
stop financial leakage from the project area.
c)To
free more human resources for local production and development.
d)To
reduce water-borne diseases so that medical staff and financial resources can be
re-directed to other health objectives such as vaccination programmes and
preventive medicine.
e)To
decrease infant mortality and promote family planning.
f)To
increase literacy levels.
g)To
eliminate dependency on fuels imported from outside the project area.
h)To
help reduce deforestation and global warming.
i)To
create value added from locally recycled non-organic solid waste.
j)To
create a "maintenance culture" to conserve the investments made.
k)To
increase the local pool of expertise so that local people can improve their
sustainable well-being and development by identifying and solving problems,
including erosion, with a minimum of outside help.
l)To
create full employment in the project area.
m)
To halt the migration of young people from the project area to shanty towns in
the large cities.
Short
term goals contributing to the attainment of the long term
goals:
a)
To carry out a basic hygiene education programme by establishing 200 Community
Health Clubs in the project area and promoting hygiene education courses in 40
schools.
b)
To install 10000 technically appropriate sanitation systems for the people in
the project area.
c)
To provide 200 permanent safe drinking water supply structures in the project
area with back-up to cover all foreseeable circumstances.
d)
To make safe drinking water available within a radius of 150-200m from users'
homes.
e)
To contribute to the fight against water-related diseases through hygiene
education, the supply of appropriate sanitation and clean drinking water
systems.
f)
To reduce the work load on women including but not limited to elimination of the
need to fetch water and firewood.
g)
To provide for the continuity of health, sanitation and drinking water systems
by establishing appropriate institutional management and maintenance structures.
h)
To enable students and others especially women who wish to study in the evening
to do so in 200 study rooms with photovoltaic lighting.
i)
To avoid the need to import wood into the local system and reduce CO2 emissions
in the project area and qualify for CER certificates under the Kyoto treaty.
j)
To introduce 20000 efficient bio-mass fuelled means of cooking to eliminate
smoke hazards in users’ homes and solar cookers for daytime applications.
k)
To create added value through recycling of organic and non-organic waste.
l)
To keep available financial resources (LETS money and formal money) revolving
within the beneficiary communities.
m)
To stimulate on-going local industrial and agricultural development through the
use of local currency (LETS) and micro-credit systems.
n)
To create large-scale, indicatively 4000, job opportunities.
o)
Eliminate the importation of fertilisers into the project area through the local
recycling of organic wastes.
(Supply
the following information: )
(a)
relevance of the action in relation to the objectives of the fund or programme
under which the application for finance is made.
This
proposal refers to decisions taken in connection with ( example : Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) adopted in 2000 with a purpose of reducing the part of
the world population without sustainable access to clean drinking water by 50% by 2015) and the decisions taken
during (example: the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) held in
Johannesburg in 2002 with a purpose of reducing the part of the world population
without sustainable access to sustainable sanitation by 50% and promoting
efficient integrated structures for the management of water
resources.)
(Name
of country hosting the proposed project) is recognised as being one of the
poorest countries in the world. The number of people there with access to clean
drinking water and sanitation facilities is very low, particularly in rural
areas, where the proportion of people with access to clean drinking water is
less than (10%), and that with access to sanitation facilities is less than
(2%).
(Give
a short paragraph of not more than 10 lines, describing the National Plan for
Access to Clean Drinking Water and Sanitation in:
(The
host country)
(The
region where the project area is situated)
(The
project area)
It
is clear from the foregoing analysis, that so long as traditional concepts of
development are followed, the task of supplying clean drinking water and
sanitation facilities to the people in the project area and of promoting their
general development so as to ensure them a good quality of life is a very
difficult, if not impossible one. New integrated development concepts are needed
to ensure that the people enjoy a complete range of services essential to a good
quality of life. A powerful local general mobilisation of the people in the
project area is needed. The formal money cost of the mobilisation must be very
low.
The
project (New Horizons for (name of project area)) will have a pilot function.
Acceptance of the concepts applied in the project as basis for a strategic plan
for sustainable integrated development at national level in (name of host
country) would involve setting up about (number, being the population of the
host country divided by 50.000) . The importance of this first project in (name of country)
is then evident. If successful, poverty could be eliminated in (the host
country) within a few years, in any case by 2015.
(b) relevance of the action in relation
to the priorities of the Fund or programme under which the application for
finance is being made.
The
proposal is based on the improvement of the quality of life of all of the
inhabitants in the project area, without exclusion, and in particular of that of
women, children, and the poorest. The people themselves, and in particular the
women, are mobilised to create thousands (about four thousand) of sustainable
jobs. They set a full range of local social, financial and productive
structures. The project is therefore not limited to drinking water supply and
sanitation. It also covers, by way of example, structures for hygiene education
for women and in schools, autonomous recycling at local level of organic and
non-organic wastes, local money
systems, interest-free micro-credit structures productivity development,
structures for the local production of most of the items necessary for the basic
services in question, communication systems, lighting for study purposes, local
production of high efficiency stoves to eliminate smoke and health hazards in
and around users’ homes, and the production of mini-briquettes for use with the
stoves, and structures at household level for the harvesting of rainwater. The
drinking water structures are the ones requiring the highest formal currency
investment, as they contain elements which are not susceptible to local
manufacture under the structures set up by the project.
The
proposal responds to the goals of and the principles behind the tender in a
particularly innovative way. It provides for the development of numerous
permanent physical and sustainable social, financial, and productive structures
which all become the property of the inhabitants themselves, in the management
of which women play a dominating role. The inhabitants participate in the planning, execution and management
of the project structures. They sustainably organise, run, and maintain all of
the structures set up at their own cost. The monthly contribution (usually Euro
0,60-0,75 per person) paid by each family into the Cooperative Local Development
Fund covers the entire range of services offered, and is affordable even to the
poorest families, who benefit from a three tiered social. Security system itself
integrated into the project structures. Sustainable hygiene education, drinking
water, eco-sanitation systems at household level and structures for the
recycling of organic and non-organic waste and for the elimination of smoke
hazards inside users’ homes improve the conditions of health in the project
area, and in particular that of women and children. Elimination of the use of
wood for cooking leads to a reduction in CO2 emissions and to the protection of
forests and the environment in general. The project sets up a complete,
voluntary, cooperative, interest-free, inflation-free local economic environment
entirely managed by the community itself.
(c)Identification of the perceived needs
and limitations in the host country.
The
people in (the project area) do not enjoy adequate hygiene education, sanitation
or clean drinking water and. In this respect the situation in the project area
is critical.
In
rural areas in (the host country), most people (percentage) use up to 30 litres
per person per day of surface waters from rivers or ponds. Some people
(percentage) have open wells. A few (percentage) have access to boreholes. Water
from the same source is used for all applications (as drinking water for washing
clothes, cooking, animal watering etc). (Percentage) of child deaths are due to
diarrhoea- related infections. (Describe water –related illnesses and their
incidence in the project area, quote where possible national health and/or World
Health Organisation statistics).
Women
and children often have to carry water over several (how many) kilometres from
contaminated sources to their houses. Much time is wasted fetching dirty water
which is then usually drunk with all its pathogens without treatment and without
being boiled. The way water is provided has other social implications too. The
time and effort spent by women on fetching water could be used to improve the living conditions
of their families in other ways.
Drinking
water bought from water sellers costs (price) for a bucket containing (15)
litres. Poor families cannot usually pay this amount, and are forced to fetch
water from contaminated sources, if they exist. Water is stored in (describe
jars or jerry cans) generally without lids. These containers are often badly
maintained. The water in them is replaced (times per week) using (instruments
and their cleanliness).
Poor
water quality throughout the project area spreads diseases such as (name the
diseases). The cost of the fighting often deadly water-related diseases takes up
a large slice of the family incomes. A goal of the project is to reduce
water-borne disease so medical and financial resources can be re-directed to
other health objectives like vaccination programmes and preventive medicines.
Resulting diseases also affect the quality of life and the productivity of the
people.
Supply
of readily accessible clean drinking water for personal and household use should
improve the health of the whole population and ease the pressure of work on
women.
The
project includes gypsum composite
production units whose first job will be to make water storage tanks and
well linings for the project. The project will provide at least 25 litres of
distributed clean drinking water per person per day, plus a back-up supply of
another 25 litres of clean drinking water at the (40) well sites, plus up to 25
litres per person per day of non-potable water for personal uses from rain-water
harvesting systems placed in users’ houses.
(d) List of target groups and the
estimated number of direct and indirect beneficiaries.
All
of the inhabitants in the project area, estimated to be 50.000, are both direct
and indirect beneficiaries of the project.
The
monthly contribution made by each family into the Cooperative Local Development
Fund amounts to about Euro 0,60 to Euro 0,75 per person per month. It is enough
to cover the full range of services offered by the project and is within the
reach of even the poorest families in the community. For them, the elderly, the
sick and the handicapped, a three-tiered social security support structure
integrated is provided, both in relation to payments of their local money
obligations and of their formal money obligations under the project. Health
conditions, in particular those of women and children, are improved through the
hygiene education clubs and hygiene education courses in schools, the supply of
clean drinking water and eco-sanitation facilities at household level, the local
recycling of organic and non-organic waste, and the elimination of smoke hazards
in users’ homes. Elimination of the need to use wood for cooking brings with it
a strong reduction in CO2 emissions and to the sustainable protection of forests and
nature reserves in the project area. The project sets up a complete voluntary
cooperative interest-free inflation-free local economy system which is managed
by the community itself. The local economy systems does not act as a substitute
for the existing formal money system. It operates peacefully and in harmony with
the formal money system. Users choose whether they prefer to conduct a given
transaction under the framework of the local money system set up, or under the
formal money system.
(e) Reasons for the choice of the target
groups and proposed activities.
The
concepts of integrated development adopted in this project do not provide
selection of target groups. The project area for this action has been chosen
because of the poverty of the inhabitants and the known presence in the project
area of extensive gypsum deposits. The number of beneficiaries is sociological
in nature. It is determined by the basic relationship of an individual with a
group. The group must be large enough to offer a good choice of local products
and services to the consumers, and a market which is large enough to allow for
specialised production of goods and services. At the same time the size of the
group must remain comprehensible to the individual, who must be able to
associate with and feel an integrated part of the group. The individual should
be able to personally know the administrative organs of the group and to
participate personally in their activities. These conditions are best met in
areas with populations between 50.000 and 75.000 inhabitants. (The limitation of
this project to an area with 50.000
inhabitants is determined by the maximum amount allowed under the Fund or
Programme under which this application for funding is made.)
(f) Relevance of the action to the target
groups.
a)To
sustain on-going improvement of the general quality of life well-being and
health of the local people.
b)
To stop financial leakage from the project area.
c)To
free more human resources for local production and development.
d)To
reduce water-borne diseases so that medical staff and financial resources can be
re-directed to other health objectives such as vaccination programmes and
preventive medicine.
e)To
decrease infant mortality and promote family planning.
f)To
increase literacy levels.
g)To
eliminate dependency on fuels imported from outside the project area.
h)To
help reduce deforestation and global warming.
i)To
create value added from locally recycled non-organic solid waste.
j)To
create a "maintenance culture" to conserve the investments made.
k)To
increase the local pool of expertise so that local people can improve their
sustainable well-being and development by identifying and solving problems,
including erosion, with a minimum of outside help.
l)To
create full employment in the project area.
m)
Create opportunities for youth in the project area to stop migration of the
population from the project area to shanty towns in the large cities.
(g)Description of the value added aspects
of the proposal.
The
proposed project is fully integrated in an innovative way and represents a
world-wide precedent. Poverty can be eliminated in the project area over a
period of 4-5 years at a cost of about Euro 100 per person through the supply of
a full range of basic structures necessary to a good quality of life, with the
creation of several thousand individual and cooperative jobs (in this case about
4.000) and local money systems enabling
limitless exchanges of locally produced goods and services in the project
area. Each family receives on an average at least Euro 1500 in interest-free
micro-credits for productivity increase over each period of 10 years. The
success of this first project in (name of host country) should lead to the
formation of an integrated development strategy at national level, and to pilot
projects in other countries.
General
preparation.
Formalities
for permits. Personnel necessary: coordinator and secretariat. The consultant
provides advice. The cooperation of the national and local authorities is
necessary. No specific problem is foreseen.
Purchase
of land and permanent offices, in the name of the project and on behalf of the
inhabitants in the project area. Actions : coordinator and secretariat;
consultant. Cooperation of the local authorities is necessary. No specific
problem is foreseen.
Preparation
and editing of detailed project specifications. Personnel : coordinator;
consultant, secretariat. Activities include the general definitions of the
future tank commission areas, most probable sites for wells and boreholes, as
well as important administrative aspects such as the rules for the correct
notation of names of persons and places.
Construction
of the workshop hall and associated drinking water, kitchen and sanitation and
nursery services. The contributions of the local populations is expected to be
38400 work hours. Drilling of a borehole. Equipping the borehole with pumps and
solar panels. Construction of temporary dry composting dry toilets. Garden for the recycling (by
way of example) of waste materials. Organisation of the workplaces for the
Project Coordinator and the general consultant. Execution of activities by the
coordinator and his secretariat.
Once
the Moraisian workshops have been completed, the workshop hall will be used as
the permanent central project depot.
Health
Clubs.
Activities
for the formation of 200 Health Clubs. Purchase and preparation of material for
the Clubs. Training of the 200 Health Club leaders.
This
is the most critical phase of the entire project.
Should these activities not succeed the first time, they will have to be
repeated until the Health Clubs are fully operational. Success of the workshop
is not so much a question of hygiene education but of the practical organisation
in groups of the women in the project area, to enable them to play the important
role assigned to them in the formation and management of the social, financial
and productive structures to be set up.
Execution
by way of a Moraisian workshop. About 220 participants for about 3 months.
Nomination of participants at village level. Social organisation enabling the
nominee women to participate in the workshops.
Execution
of activities : coordinator + secretariat + consultant + specialist workshops +
specialist hygiene education.
The
contributions of the local populations for the formation of the Health Clubs is
120.000 working hours. The cooperation of
about 15 Ministry of Health public health officials is preferred. These
officials are then expected to offer technical support the Health Clubs are
required.
The
workshops should produce the following structures:
-A
system coordination structure: with
the project coordinator, at a level of the local authorities involved; with the
Ministry of Health; between the Health Club leaders and Ministry of Health
officials; for the statutes and the rules of the Health
Clubs.
-A
materials structure; discussion with potential members of the Health Club
groups; definition of the content of the hygiene education course in accordance
with local requirements; adaptation of the material according to local cultures
(illustrations, languages etc.) using artistic styles accepted in the project
area; actual preparation of the course materials; distribution of the
materials.
-A
methodology structure; how to use the materials; the role of the Health Ministry
officials; the role of the Health
Club leaders; practical exercises; how to call and run the individual lessons;
monitoring the work of the groups after the conclusion of the
courses.
-A
communications structure;
-A
tank commission level structure; payment of locally responsible persons;
relationships between those responsible locally and the future Tank
Commission; relationships between
those responsible locally and the Ministry of health official for her area;
discussions with persons interested in participating in the (future) tank
Commissions ;registration of the course participants ; practical
organisation of the lessons and the meetings.
Transport
participants. This is the most important logistical problem. For this
purpose, two buses will be purchased. At the close of the series of workshops,
the buses will be passed on the a public transport cooperative under the
framework of the interest-free micro-credit system set up.
Material
editing of the course material by the women participating; preparation of course
material by the participating women. Nomination of participants at village
level. Social organisation to ensure participation by the women in the
workshops. Where necessary, a nursery to be run by women themselves is foreseen.
Hygiene
education courses in the schools.
Organisation
of the workshop : duration about three months. Contribution by the
population : 34.000 working hours.
Editing,
production, and distribution of course material in the schools.
The
cooperation of about 15 Ministry of
Health public health officials is preferred. These officials are then expected
to offer technical support the teachers in the schools.
The
cooperation of the Ministry of Education authorities is required. The
participation of a large delegation of teachers (200-250) is hoped for. The
participants must decide on the content of the courses for each different
teaching level and according to the age of the students. Efforts will be made to
cover issues related to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and to measure of voluntary birth
control. Local social structures.
The
tank commissions.
The
tank commission are the heart of the planned project
structures.
A
Moraisian workshop will be held. Workshop activities:
Local
social structures (formation three levels of management, being 200 tank
commissions, 35 well commissions;
one central management unit.). Participation : 200 persons (mostly
women) who will have indicated
their interest in taking general responsibility for participation in the tank
commissions for the local administration of the project structures. The
candidates will be indicated by the Health Clubs, who will already be in
operation, eventually in cooperation with existing village development
committees where there are any.
Definition
of the social form of the tank commissions, the well commissions; organisation ,
coordination, communication.
Once
the workshop has been completed, the women participating in it organise, in
cooperation with the members of the Health Clubs, the election of the tank
commissions, who then together choose the members of the well commission to
which they refer. These then choose the central management unit. commissions.
Personnel :
coordinator, secretariat, general consultant, workshops specialist. The local
populations contribute 724.000 hours of work during the first two executive
project years. Once the workshops and the elections have been held these
important activities are organised and run by the populations themselves.
The
transport of participants is an important logistical problem. For this purpose,
two buses will be purchased. At the close of the series of workshops, the buses
will be passed on the a public transport cooperative under the framework of the
interest-free micro-credit system set up.
Once
the local structures are in place, the financial structures foreseen can be se
up. Most of the project activities are covered within the framework of these new
financial structures.
Local
money systems
(One,
two or three) Moraisian workshops will be held, (one for each planned local
money LETS system. )
Indicative
participation (all workshops together)
The
Moraisian trainers.
The project coordinator.
General Consultant.
2
representatives of the NGO.
Representative of the Finance Ministry.
Representative of the Rural Development ministry.
At least 5 observers
(possible coordinators for future projects).
200 persons, indicated by the
well commissions, who will have indicated their interest in registering
transactions.
200 persons (men and women) indicated by the Tank Commissions
interested in taking responsibility for the management of the LETS systems at
tank commission level.
140
persons who have indicated willingness to register local money transactions at
well commission level.
Duration
of each workshop: about six weeks.
The
Workshops will be expected to produce the following structures:
a)
Definition of the social form of the LETS structures
- statutes
- rules
- professional and administrative structures
- financial aspects
-
relationships with other non-formal local money systems
b)
Structure for the registration of transactions
- physical working space
(offices)
- adaptation of environments against weather and dust
- safety
and back-up procedures to protect information
- purchase of computers,
printers, equipment for registration of members et electrical connections
eventually using PV
- distribution of physical structures: LETS boxes,
notice boards
- preparation of cheques or other instruments of exchange to
be used
- publication of the services available within the system
c)
Coordination with users
- preparatory meetings with users at tank commission
level
- presentation of the local coordinator
- registration of members
- distribution of cheques or other instruments of exchange
- starting
transactions
d)
A communications structure
- vertical, at project level (project
coordinator, transaction registrars, those responsible at tank commission level,
users)
- horizontal, with the various persons responsible at the same level
(amongst transaction registrars, amongst tank commission level operators)
-
horizontal, amongst local money systems
- commercial, radio, website
Personnel :
coordinator, secretariat, general consultant and workshops specialist. The local
populations will contribute 576.000 hours of work during the first two executive
years of the project.
The
organisation and the construction of accommodation for the registration of local
money transactions is the responsibility of the well commissions, who own them..
The cost of computers and equipment is charged to the project’s formal money
fund and is itemised in the budget.
The
transportation of workshop participants represent an important logistical
problem. For this purpose, two buses will be purchased. At the close of the
series of workshops, the buses will be passed on the a public transport
cooperative under the framework of the interest-free micro-credit system set
up.
When
the workshops have finished, all local system finance activities are organised
and managed by the populations themselves.
The
management of the local financial structures is subject to the cooperation of
the fiscal authorities. An agreement on the taxation of activities conducted
under the local financial structures set up has to be reached before the project
formally starts. A general moratorium on taxation of these activities for a
number of years (at leas 10 years) followed by the application a few simple rules is preferred. These
rules are set out in detail in the project documentation. The transaction can
take place anywhere in the project area. At least one transactions assistant is
formed during the workshops to help people in each tank commission area who are
unable to read and write. Similar facilities are provided for market places and
places where commercial transactions are done. A collateral voucher system will
be introduced to cover frequent, repetitive small-scale
transactions.
The
micro-credit system structures workshop.
The
Cooperative Local Development Fund set up by the project will manage formal
currency funds necessary for running the project, acting on instructions of the
project coordinator given on receipt of the indications received from those
responsible at tank commission level. The funds do not belong to the Fund, which
will intervene only in the practical management and transfer of the funds. The
decisions are taken by the users' structures set up under the project. Where
seed money for the project is supplied by way of interest-free ten year loan,
the funds formally belong to the users until the expiry of the 10 years'
interest-free credit term. The interests of the financing parties are protected
by their representatives nominated to the board of the NGO and/or to the
auditing commission, who will be invited to participate in the workshop.
The
Cooperative Local Development Fund
will be constituted during the workshop.
The
services of the Fund will be paid in local LETS monies at a fixed rate per
transaction to be set during the workshop. If it wishes, the Fund can then use
its LETS credits to purchase goods and services inside the project area and sell
them for formal money outside the project area.
One
Moraisian workshop will be held to prepare the Bank structures.
Indicative
participation:
The
Moraisian trainers
The project coordinator
General Consultant
2 Representatives of the NGO acting
on behalf of the financing parties.
Representative of the Finance Ministry.
Representative of the Rural Development ministry.
At least 5 observers
(possible coordinators for future projects).
At least 6 qualified persons, 3
indicated by the NGO and 3 by the project coordinator.
200 persons,
indicated by the tank commissions, interested in participating with
responsibility for credit arrangements at tank commission level.
Duration
of the workshop: about four weeks.
The
Workshop will be expected to produce the following structures:
a)
Definition of the social form
- statutes
- rules
- professional and
administrative structures
- financial aspects
- relations with the LETS
local money systems
b)
Physical aspects
- land
- office
- safety
- communications
c)
Financial aspects (Definition of initiatives at each structural level. How much
money is to be distributed at each level?)
-
funding of initiatives at general project level (recycling structures, important
productivity initiatives, public works)
- funding of initiatives at
intermediate, well commission, level
- funding of initiatives at local tank
commission level
- funding of socially based initiatives (clubs, interest
groups etc)
- traditional banking activities
a)
Central structure
b)
De-centralised structure
- Preparation operators
- Meetings at tank
commission level
c)
Coordination
- With LETS structures
- With tank commissions
- With
project coordinator
d)
Financing of specific projects
- Relations with financiers
e)
Communications structure
-Vertical, at project level (project coordinator,
transactions operators, tank commission level operators, end users)
Commercial, radio, website
Personnel :
coordinator, secretariat, general consultant, workshops specialist. The
populations contribute 236.000 hours of work. Computers and equipment are
charged to the formal money project funds as a separate item in the budget.
The
transportation of workshop participants represent an important logistical
problem. For this purpose, two buses will be purchased. At the close of the
series of workshops, the buses will be passed on the a public transport
cooperative under the framework of the interest-free micro-credit system set
up.
No
specific administrative problem is expected with the micro-credits system, which
is independently entirely managed through the internal project structures set up
for the purpose. On-going operational costs are covered under the local money
LETS systems.
Productive
structures.
1)
Gypsum composite production units.
Usually
two or three Moraisian organisational workshops will be held, one for each
production unit planned. These production units are in principle 100% ecological
with high manual labour content, zero energy input, and up to 100% of local
value added.
Indicative
participation (all workshops together)
The
Moraisian trainers
The project coordinator
The general
consultant
Gypsum
composites consultant.
At least one representative of the applicant NGO.
Representative of the Ministry of Health.
Representative of the Rural
Development ministry.
At least 5 observers (possible coordinators for future
projects).
200 persons (men and women), indicated during meetings held at
Tank Commission level, interested in participating in the activities of the
factories. Where opportune, according to local political structures and
traditions, up to 25% of the people could be indicated by the local chiefs.
Duration
of each workshop: about four weeks.
The
Workshops will be expected to produce the following structures:
a)
Definition of the social form of the production units.
- statutes.
-
rules.
- professional and administrative structures and formation.
-
financial aspects.
- relationship with the local LETS systems.
b)
A structure for the supply of materials.
- geological research for gypsum
and/or anhydrite deposits.
- quality control of the gypsum
deposits.
-
formation of cooperative for exploitation of the quarries.
-
locations of gypsum/anhydrite quarries, permits.
- activities preparatory to
exploitation.
- logistics.
- coordination of materials depots with the
factories.
c)
Definition of the items to be made (tanks, toilets, stoves, solar cookers etc).
- coordination with the other production units (specialisation).
-
contacts with families.
- definition of requirements : articles and
specifications.
- definition of requirements : design, productive capacity.
- definition of the necessary procedures.
- preparation of forms and
moulds, training of participants.
- tests.
- decision on priorities to
be given to the various items.
d)
A structure for the factories.
- land and necessary structures.
- design
of factories.
- construction of factories.
- purchase of necessary
equipment.
e)
A production structure.
- organisation of the production.
- commercial
organisation.
f)
A structure for the installation of the items produced.
- Relationship
factory-installers.
- Preparation of the installers.
- Installation.
- Siting of boreholes/wells.
- After sales backup and service.
g)
A structure for communications.
- Vertical, at project level (project
coordinator, factory manager, factory commissions, installers, end users).
-
Horizontal, between production units.
- With the local money LETS systems.
- Commercial, radio, website.
h)
Environmental evaluation reports.
The
amounts of gypsum required for
project execution are very small, to the order of a few hundred tons per year.
No specific problems are expected in relation to the quarries and their
exploitation. Quarry exploitation rights will be held on behalf of the
inhabitants of the villages or of the tank commissions where the deposits are
situated. The people will decide what they want to do with the used quarry
premises. In particular, it is not expected that inhabitants will need to
abandon their homes as a result of the quarrying activities.
Some
fine gypsum powder can be dispersed into the environment in and around the
quarries and the gypsum composite production units. The use of protective masks
and glasses in the quarries and the production units should be
enforced.
The
exploitation of the quarries and the production of articles made from gypsum
composites are both cooperative in nature, and run by the local people
themselves. Their first priority is the protection of the local people and of
the environment they live in. All necessary steps will be taken for their
protection.
2.
Drinking water structures.
Usually
one Moraisian workshop will be held in a given project area.
Indicative
participation:
The
Moraisian workshop specialist.
The project coordinator.
The general
consultant.
The gypsum composites consultant.
At least one representative
of the applicant NGO.
Representative of the Health Ministry
Representative of the Rural Development ministry
At least 5 observers
(possible coordinators for future projects)
30 persons indicated by the tank
commissions interested in the systematic maintenance of the structures
100
persons indicated by the tank commissions, interested in drilling boreholes,
drilling wells and building the associated civil and associated works
Duration
of the workshop: about four weeks.
The
Workshop will be expected to produce the following structures:
a)
A coordination structure
- definition of the social form
- statutes
- rules
- professional and administrative structures
- financial
aspects including payments
- relations with the local money LETS systems
b)
Analysis of requirements
c) Hydro-geological research
d)
Preparation of maps showing:
- sites of boreholes and wells
- tank sites
- feed-pipe installation lines
e)
Specifications
- Work bases/depots
- Boreholes/wells
- Solar pumps
- Hand pumps
- Washing areas
- Solar panels
- Panel supports
- Borehole/well surroundings
- Laying of pipelines
- Installation
tanks
- Eventual installation of UV purification units
- Training of
well commissions
- Training of tank commission
f)
Permits
g)
The civil works
- Base for storage of equipment and materials
-
Formation of teams
- Planning of works
- Logistics
- Equipment and
materials
35
wells/boreholes diameter. 8" (wells dug using the local money system).
35
Washing points(local money system).
35 Hand-pump platforms (local money
systems).
Installation of 200 solar pumps.
Construction of 200 panel
supports (local money systems).
Installation of solar panels (200*300 W = 60
kW).
Installation de 100 back-up hand-pumps being 30 triple groups and 10
single units.
Purchase accessories being cables, pipes for the well/borehole
installations.
Feed-pipes from well sites to tank installations (200km).
Laying of 200000 metres feed-pipe (local money system).
Construction of
200 water tanks (local money system).
Construction of 200 water tank bases
(local money systems).
Supervision of installation and training of
maintenance.
Setting up spare parts stocks/store.
Equipment for the
water quality control.
h)
Formation
of a cooperative for installation and maintenance.
i) Structure for the management and
monitoring of statistics and on-going daily operations at tank commission and
well commission levels..
Participants
: coordinator, secretariat, general consultant, workshops specialist, (where
applicable) drilling company. The
local population participates with 392.400 hours of work.
The
gypsum composite production units produce tanks, plat-forms, washing places,
panel supports etc.
Formal
money capital investments for the drinking water structures form a large part of
the formal money seed funds as many of the materials and some of the services
are not available locally.
3.
Recycling structures for organic and non-organic
materials.
A
special fund is included in the budget to cover the costs of setting up the
recycling structures, which have priority. The funds will be repaid by the
beneficiaries in the same way as those made available to the gypsum composite
factories. They will take the form of interest-free credits repayable according
to the real possibilities of those involved as decided during the organisational
workshops during which the structures are set up. The repayments will be
financed by sale of materials such as fertilisers and compost outside the
project area and by the "exportation" of solid non-organic waste which are not
recyclable within the project area itself. For an illustration of a possible
general structure for the integrated recycling of waste in project areas refer
to:
The
work of the recycling structures will be carried out within the local money LETS
systems already set up. One of the more interesting features of LETS systems is
that, in contrast with what happens in the western monetised economies, work
considered as "dirty" and/or "heavy" is usually better paid than "clean" and/or
"light" work as the rates charged will normally be related to the perceived
value of an hour's work in the foreseeable normal working situation.
Usually
at least two Moraisian workshops will be held. Often, one workshop for each LETS
local money system.
Indicative
participation (all workshops together).
The
Moraisian trainers.
The project coordinator.
General consultant.
At
least one representative of the applicant NGO.
Representative of the Finance
Ministry.
Representative of the Health Ministry.
Representative of the
Rural Development ministry.
At least 5 observers (possible coordinators for
future projects).
200 persons (male and female)indicated by the tank
commissions, interested in participating in the recycling of organic waste.
100
persons indicated by the well commissions interested in the recycling of
inorganic waste.
Duration
of each workshop: about four weeks.
The
Workshops will be expected to produce the following structures:
a)
Definition of the social form of the structures
- statutes
- rules
-
professional and administrative structures
- financial aspects including
relations with the Micro-credit institution
- relations with the local money
LETS systems
b)
Analysis of requirements
c)
A structure for the recycling centres
- Definition of the land requirements
and the physical structures necessary
- formalities and permits
- design
of the centres
- construction of the centres
- purchase of the necessary
equipment
d)
A structure for the collection/deposition of waste
- urine
- composted
excreta
- waste water
- other organic waste
- non organic solids
- special industrial wastes
- medical wastes
- who will do what
- definition of individual zones
- definition of specialisations
e)
A commercial structures
- definition of the tariffs applicable to the
various types of material
- distribution of urine and composted excreta
- direct recycling of certain materials
- contacts for the exportation
of materials not recyclable locally
f)
A monitoring structure
- sanitary conditions
- ecological conditions
- safety conditions
g)
A communications structure
- vertical, at project level (coordinator, centre
managers, collection structures, end users)
- horizontal, between centres
- relations with local money LETS systems
- commercial, radio, website
Contribution
of the local populations 576.000 working hours.
The
local gypsum composite production units produce tanks, toilets , san-plats and
building support structures within the framework of the local money
systems.
Cooperation
of local authorities and of the Ministry of Public Health is needed for permits
and concessions for depots and environmental clearance certificates.
4.
Structures for energy autonomy.
20000
high efficiency stoves are to be built in the gypsum composite production
units.
The
structures foreseen are for the production of mini-briquettes for the stoves to
be made by the gypsum composite production units and for the production of
bio-masse to make the mini-briquettes.
Usually
just one Moraisian workshop will be held in a given project area.
Indicative
participation.
The
Moraisian trainers.
The project coordinator.
General consultant Terry
Manning.
Gypsum composites consultant.
At least one representative of the applicant NGO.
Representative
of the Health Ministry.
Representative of the Rural Development ministry.
At least 5 observers (possible coordinators for future projects).
100
persons indicated by the well commissions interested in the production of
mini-briquettes.
400 persons indicated by the tank commissions, interested
in producing bio-masse for the mini-briquettes.
Duration
of the workshop: about four weeks.
The
Workshop will be expected to produce the following structures:
a)
A coordination structure.
- definition of the social form.
- statutes.
- rules.
- professional and administrative structures.
- financial
aspects including payments.
- relations with the local money LETS systems.
b)
Analysis of requirements.
- detailed analysis of the present systems.
-
demand in the project area.
- demand outside the project area.
c)
Analysis of the bio-masse resources available.
d)
Definition of the recipes (mixtures) socially acceptable.
e)
Creation of the physical structures for briquette production.
f)
Logistics.
- Assembly and stocking of materials.
- distribution of
mini-briquettes.
g)
Organisation of the cultivation of bio-mass.
h)
Commercial.
- Availability of micro-credits for growers.
- Availability
of micro-credits for briquette makers.
- Prices for briquette distribution
according to the various mixtures.
The
contribution of the local
populations is 228.800 working hours.
5.
Structures for water purification.
40
Installations for the purification of water in clinics and schools.
Goal
: to redouble the safety of clean drinking water for children and the
ill.
Personnel :
coordinator, secretariat, general consultant ;
Contribution
of populations 2.800 working hours.
No
workshop is required for this.
Formation
of structures for the collection and the analysis of water quality.
Purchase
of equipment.
Installation
by the installation and maintenance cooperative already in place.
On-going
monitoring of activities and statistics.
6.
Structures for lighting for study purposes at tank commission level and in
schools and clinics.
200
photovoltaic lighting systems for study purposes.
No
workshop is required for this.
Purchase
of the systems specially covered under separate budget
items
Purchase
PV television for study purposes depends on local circumstances and the
decisions of the local tank commissions.
PV lighting for 40 schools.
PV lighting for the (number) of clinics in the project area.
PV
refrigeration for the (number) of clinics in the project area.
Construction of 200 study rooms
at tank commission level.
Installation
and maintenance by the installation and maintenance cooperatives for water
services already set up.
Personnel :
coordinator, secretariat, and general consultant.
Contribution
des populations for the construction of the study rooms : 99.200 working hours.
The
agreement of the ministries of Public Health and Education is necessary for the
installation of systems in schools and clinics.
7.
Structures for rain-water harvesting at household level.
No
workshop is required for this.
Construction
of the first 200 of 10000 rain-water harvesting systems by the gypsum composite
production units.
Installation
and maintenance by the installation and maintenance cooperatives for water
services already set up.
Personnel :
coordinator, secretariat, and general consultant.
Contribution
des populations for the construction of the first two hundred pilot systems and
monitoring them : 36.400 working hours.
(This
item is included in the productive
structures, and space is allowed for it in the balance sheet. However cost
coverage for it has not been
included in the balance sheet. This is because it may not always qualify for
inclusion in integrated drinking water, sanitation and hygiene education
structures under tenders issued by donor organisations. )
The
establishment of a local radio station is an integral part of the project. The
station is a part of the management of communications concerning the project.
Since
most people in the project areas possess a radio, radio is an excellent way to
spread information on the project developments and the management of the
structures set up. It also enables users to discuss initiatives taken and to be
taken, and to express their criticisms. It can also become a vehicle for local
commerce.
The
station will usually be placed in a location in the centre of the project area
so as to limit the transmission radius. A PV operated station may be preferred
to one running on "imported" electricity, as this increases the autonomy of the
station and reduces long term financial leakage from the project area.
The
management of the station will be completely autonomous.
(a) Transmission of information on
project activities (news bulletins).
- Convocation of meetings for
structures (tanks commissions, LETS systems etc) .
- Information on decisions
taken during meetings.
- Information on progress made with the
installation/setting up of the various structures.
- Information of
interest-free micro-credits conceded.
(b)
Transmissions by interest groups.
- Initiatives the groups wish to take.
- Information on initiatives under way.
(c)
Information on cultural and sporting activities in the project area.
(d)
Emergency services.
(e)
Promotion of the project towards the outside.
Financing.
The
setting up of the station is covered by a separate item in the indicative
balance sheet. How can the station reimburse this interest-free credit?
-
Work is carried out under the local LETS money systems - Expenses in formal
currency (electricity?, equipment and the costs of running it) would need to be
paid back over 3 or 4 years. How:
-a) Collection of a small (formal
currency) contribution at household level?
-b) Payments for services
rendered to people living in the areas surrounding the project area.
-c)
Advertising by producers in the project area towards people living in the
surrounding areas Usually just one Moraisian workshop will be held in a given
project area.
Indicative
participation.
The
Moraisian trainers.
The project coordinator.
General consultant.
At
least one representative of the applicant NGO.
Representative of the
Ministry of Communications.
At least 5 observers (possible coordinators for
future projects).
20 persons indicated by the tank commissions interested in
participating in the management of the station.
50 persons indicated by the
tank commissions, interested in producing programmes for the station.
Duration
of the workshop: about three weeks.
The
Workshop will be expected to produce the following structures:
a)
A coordination structure.
- definition of the social form.
- statutes.
- rules.
- professional and administrative structures.
- financial
aspects including payments.
- relations with the local money LETS systems.
b)
Analysis of requirements.
- detailed analysis of the communications needs of
the individual structures created under the project.
- demand in the project
area.
- demand outside the project area.
c)
Material structure.
- Land.
- Permits.
- Office/studio.
-
Transmission equipment.
- Equipment for production and storing of
programmes.
d)
Logistics.
- Transport.
- Storage of materials.
- Organisation of
network.
The
action will last 24 months.
N.B.:
Note: The indicative action plan should not mention actual dates but simply
indicate, month 1 ; month 2 ; etc. Applicants should allow a margin of security
in their plan. The plan should not include detailed descriptions of the
activities, but just their headings. Months without activities should be
included in the action plan and in the total duration of the action.
Activity plan, month by
month and year by year.
N.B:
for each expected result provide verifiable indicators (refer also to the logical
framesheet ) which enable the progress made to be identified, described and
measured.
Maximum
2 pages. Indicate how the action will improve:
(a)
the situation of the target groups and final beneficiaries.
All
50.000 inhabitants, without exclusion, benefit from all of the social, financial
and productive structures and services set up during the
project.
Inhabitants
will have 25 litres of clean drinking water per person per day at a distance
which should not exceed 200 metres from their homes, a reserve supply of 25
litres of clean drinking water per
person per day next to 35 well sites, and a supply of a similar amount of non potable water for personal purposes
from rain-water harvesting at household level. During all seasons, and in
particular during the dry season.
A
complete appropriate dry composting eco-sanitation system will be installed in
each of the 10.000 homes in the project area.
A
contribution to the fight against water-borne diseases will also be made through
hygiene education through the formation of 200 Health Clubs for women (however
the Clubs will also be open to the participation of men), and the introduction
of institutionalised hygiene education courses in the 40 schools in the project
area together eco-sanitation and drinking water supplies
there.
Students
and other persons, especially women, who wish to study in the evening will be able to do so under acceptable
lighting conditions in 200 study rooms built under the project and fitted with
photovoltaic lighting equipment.
The
introduction of high efficiency
bio-mass stoves made in the project area will lead to a reduction (and
later, to the elimination) of the importation of fuels for cooking into the
project area.
The
work load on women will be reduced through the elimination of the need for them
to fetch water and wood for cooking purposes.
Local
value added will be increase by the local recycling of non-organic waste in the
project area.
Available
financial resources (both local money under the LETS structures set up and
formal money) will be constantly recycling interest-free within the community in
the project area.
Local
industrial and agricultural production will be increased through the use local
money LETS systems and interest-free revolving micro-credit
systems.
Ecological
and sustainable exploitation of (name the areas concerned) natural and tourist
resources in the project area will be promoted in cooperation with the (name the
Ministries involved) and local flora and fauna protected.
About
4000 jobs will be created.
Young
people will be trained to repeat and multiply this innovative pilot initiative
in other parts of (host country) and in other countries.
(b)Describe where applicable the
responsibilities and technical and management capacities of the various partners
involved in project execution.
(This
is not usually applicable to projects under the Model. )
(c)Describe
the situation with the ACTION in relation to the situation WITHOUT THE ACTION.
The
project supplies basic structures necessary to an acceptable quality of life,
including but not limited to hygiene education, supply a clean drinking water,
and sanitation facilities to all of the 50.000 people, without exclusion, in the
project area. At the same time the project makes a complete range of
self-managed social, financial and productive structures available to the
inhabitants. All these structures should be put in place during the first 15
months of project execution. However, some specific initiatives will only begin
towards the end of the 24 months’ executive period of the project. The
production of items necessary for
eco-sanitation and for rainwater harvesting, and of improved cooking stoves
and mini-briquettes for them will continue beyond the 24 months’
executive period.
Improvement
in the quality of life of all the inhabitants in the project area and in
particular that of the women and children there should have become a reality by
the close of the first period of 24 months. However, several more years will be
needed to totally eliminate poverty fro the project area. During the first 24months about 4000
jobs will have been created, contributing to the reduction of unemployment in
the project area. Women will no longer be fetching water over long distances and
will be participating actively in the operation of the social, financial and
productive organs set up. Each family will on an average have been
able to benefit from an interest-free micro-credit for about Euro 100-250. Over
the first ten year project cycle, each family will receive interest-free
micro-credits for productivity increase for on an average about Euro 1500. The
entire population should be actively participating in the local money systems
set up. A beginning will have been made to the reduction of financial leakage
from the project area and the liberation of more human resources for local
production and development.
A
contribution will already have been made to a reduction in the incidence of
water-borne diseases through the formation of 200 Health Clubs and hygiene
education courses in the schools, the supply of clean drinking water, clean
conditions around boreholes wells and water tanks, the improvement of drainage
in public places, the operation of waste recycling structures, and a start to
the installation of 10.000 structures sanitary structures in each home in the
project area, to be completed over a period of about 4-5 years.
Fight
against smoke hazards to health, especially of that of women and children, will
have begun with the introduction of improved cooking stoves and mini-briquettes
for them. Reduction on the dependence of the population in the project area on
imported fuels for cooking and lighting
will have commenced. Some of the families will no longer have to fetch
wood for cooking. Over a period of
4-5 years, distribution of the 20.000 stoves necessary will have been
completed, and production of the mini-briquettes necessary for their operation
under way.
The
following social structures will be in place :
200
structures for basic hygiene education for women, and on-going systematic
hygiene education courses in the schools.
200
tank commissions.
35 well commissions.
1 project level management unit.
A three-tiered social security system for the elderly, the sick and the
handicapped.
The
following financial structures will be in place:
A
self-run cooperative interest-free, inflation-free local money system enabling
limitless transfer of locally produced and consumed goods and services to take
place.
A
self-run cooperative, interest-free micro-credit system for local productivity
increase.
The
following productive structures will be in place :
Two
structures for the production of articles made from gypsum composites, such as
those for sanitation purposes, the
high-efficiency stoves, rain-water harvesting.
200 structures for recycling
of organic waste, and 35 structures for the recycling of n on-organic waste.
35 structures for the
manufacture of mini-briquettes for the improved stoves ;400 sources for the
growing of bio-mass for the mini-briquettes.
200 structures enabling
students (including women) to study in the evening.
(d)
Describe in detail steps to be taken to monitor the given
indicators.
Most
of the social, financial, and productive structures set are by the project are
physically quantifiable. Since the services are placed at the disposition of all
of the inhabitants without exclusion, control and systematic monitoring are simple to organise. The structures are
concentrated in a clearly drawn territory. In particular, clean drinking water
and sanitation structures are
physically present following a systematic and known pattern..
According
to the new development principles applied in this project, the basic task of the
applicant is on-gong control over project execution. This control is continuous,
with the participation of a team including (an executive director, an economist,
a civil engineer, a sociologist, a secretariat all or any of whom may physically
attend meetings project execution.
In
more detail :
For
the 200 Health Clubs, the following information is available. Workshop reports;
presence at the workshop; reports
on the activities of the clubs; presence at the meetings held by Health Clubs chosen at random. Copies of
printed material for the courses. Research enquiry amongst women. The same
applied for the Hygiene education courses in the schools.
For
the 200 Tank Commissions, heart of the project, the following information is
available: Workshop reports; presence at the workshop; reports on the activities of the
commission; presence at the meetings held by Commissions hosen at random. Statistics
on the activities of the Commissions. Inspection of the physical structures run
by the commissions and checking their operation. Enquiries amongst the
populations served by specified tank commissions. The same is applicable to the
work of the well commissions.
In
particular, with regard to clean drinking water services, physical execution of
the works according to the project plan,
starting with the well digging or drilling and their equipment, the
photovoltaic installations, the presence of guards; works for the installation of feed
pipes. Information on progress made with the construction of tank production
units, tank supports, panel
supports and designs for the preparation of moulds for their manufacture.
Subsequently, monitoring their production and installation. Monitor the distance
between the tank sites and the homes served. Then actively actual supply of
drinking water to the families and the action taken to control water
quality.
With
regard the sanitation structures, monitor the physical execution of works for
the construction of the production units foreseen, and for the exploitation of
the gypsum quarries. la suite,
Monitor progress made on the design and preparation of forms and moulds for the
manufacture of the sanitation systems and their installation. Check installation
statistics and statistics on system operation.. Monitor operation amongst
random-chosen households. Organise surveys amongst the
population.
With
regard to the operation of the local financial structures set up : the applicant
can carry out a comparison between financial activities at the time of the
survey and those applying at the start of the project. Surveys amongst users can
be held. A list of activities started after project start-up can be held. Study
information and statistics on the operation of the micro-credit systems.
Participate in meetings of the management organs of the funds. Physically check
the work and operation of the local money transaction registration centres.
The
35 recycling centres can be checked by physical observation of the cleanliness
of the environment in the project area. Surveys amongst users can be held. The
recycling centres can be visited. Liaison can be set up with the Ministry of Public Health and with
Public Health inspectors charged with supervision over the recycling
centres.
With
regard to the introduction of 20.000 high efficiency stoves, the production of
mini-briquettes for them, and the elimination of smokes hazards in and around
the homes, the physical presence of the stoves in the homes can be checked,
surveys held amongst users; visits made to the mini-briquette production units;
the books and accounts of the production units checked ; the physical presence
of bio-mass in the fields checked..
(e)
Level of implication of other
participating organisations.
Execution
: local populations with the support of the project coordinator and a small team
of specialists “the project government”.
Permanent structural monitoring of
project execution : the task of the applicant, as “project parliament” .
Auditing commission checking applicant’s books.
Independent
audit.
(Associate :
NGO Bakens Verzet, Netherlands, will make the author of the Model for
Sustainable Integrated Development on which this project is based available as
General Consultant.. Bakens Verzet will also be responsible for the
participation of Mr. Eric Frans Meuleman, Haarlem, Netherlands, expert in
technologies for the working of gypsum composites.)
(Associate :
NGO Africa AHEAD, author of the favoured hygiene education
course.)
(Associated : (Local NGO’s with an indication of how
they might be able to contribute where necessary. One or two might supply
members for the auditing commission).
(f)Justification
of partners’ roles.
Not
usually applicable to projects under the Model.
(g)
Team proposed for the execution of the action (describe for each function: do
not include the names of individual persons involved).
The
project mobilises and/or employs
about 4000 permanently, being about 10% of the target adult population. Here are
some examples of permanent jobs. Figures vary from one project to another and
are indicative.
200
Health Club leaders;
1000 tank commission members;
200
well commission members;
10 members of the central management unit;
100
person for the registration of local money transactions;
200 local money
transaction assistants;
200 local recycling system members;
100
well-level recycling members;
200 guards for structures;
400 farmers for
bio-mass for mini-briquettes;
100 mini-briquette manufacturers;
100
manufacturers of gypsum composite products such as tanks, stoves, sanitation
systems;
50 installers;
20 maintenance staff;
10 people for water
quality control.
Les
following professional services are foreseen :
Project
coordinator and a team comprising:
1.
1.
1
general consultant for the application of the principles on which the project is
based. (24 months)
2.
2.
1
expert in Moraisian workshops. (12 months)
3.
3.
1
hygiene education course expert. (6 months)
4.
4.
1
gypsum composites expert. (24 months)
Auditing
commission : seven members. The commission has investigative powers and can view
all project documents and actions at any moment.
Independent
audit.
3.1 Appropriateness,
practicability, and coherence of the proposed activities.
The
project sets a cooperative, non-profit, interest-free, inflation-free economic
environment up in the project area for the benefit of all of the inhabitants
there, where individual initiative and true competition can flourish. It
produces direct employment for about 10% of the adult population and powerfully
influences the economic development of the remaining 90%. All of the social and
economic structures and services set up are sustainably created, run owned by
and paid for by the people themselves without the need for any financial
assistance after their formation.
These local economic and management structures are set up during
capacitation or organisation workshops run following the concepts presented by
the Brazilian sociologist Clodomir Santos de Morais. The order in which these
workshops are held is critical.
The
new integrated sustainable development principles applied for the first time in
this project call for a pre-determined sequence of activities offering an
optimum guarantee to donors and funding organisations as to how their funds are
used. First, the social structures, being the health clubs or the hygiene
education structures (they constitute a platform for women’s participation, the
tank or local development commissions, the well or intermediate level
development commissions, and a central management structure are set up.
Secondly, the financial structures, being the local money systems and the
self-financing interest-free micro-credit systems are set up. Finally,
productive structures are set up for the local production, using the financial
systems created, of most of the articles necessary for the range of basic
services foreseen, such as the distributed drinking water and eco-sanitation
structures.
3.2 Participation of partners and of
the beneficiary population.
First,
about 200 Health Clubs, each based on 40 families (200-300 people) are set up.
They form a platform for women, to make sure they can organise themselves in
groups and participate en bloc at
local development meetings and to play a dominant role in the various social,
economic, service and productive structures set up.
Once
the Health Clubs are in operation, about 200 tank or local development
commissions are set up. They are based on the same groups of 40 families
(200-300 people). The commissions each have 3 - 5 members, all or at least most
of whom are women. These commissions are the heart of the project. They in turn
elect about 35 intermediate of well commissions, which in turn choose a central
management unit.
Once
the tank and well commissions and the central management unit are in place, it
is possible to set up the local money systems which offer the inhabitants in the
project area means for the transfer of all locally produced and consumed goods
and services. The art is at this point to identify and use technologies enabling
most of the goods and services necessary to local development and a good quality
of life in the project area to be produced with 100% local value added. Such
goods and services can then be produced, installed, maintained and paid under
the framework of the local money systems set up, without the need for any formal
money at all. An example applied in this project is the possibility to produce,
install, manage, and maintain a complete dry composting eco-sanitation structure
through out the project area without the need for a cent of formal money. The
costs of running the local money systems are covered under the local money
systems themselves.
Once
the LETS local money systems are in place, a distinction can be made between
what can be done under the local money systems and what must be “imported” into
the project area. Goods and services needed for basic urgently needed
services such as clean drinking
water supply, use is made of the project’s seed funds to cover the formal money
(Euros) cost of imported goods and services. For other initiatives cooperative
interest-free micro-credit structures are put in place. These recycle the users'
monthly contributions (usually between Euro 0,60 and Euro 0,75 per person) to
the Cooperative Local Development Fund interest-free for credits for sustainable
productivity purposes, for the purpose of purchasing goods for productivity
increase not locally produced. The micro-credit systems will allow at least Euro
1500 of interest-free micro-credit per family during the first ten years of the
project. Probably more, as the Euro 1500 is conservatively based on an average
two-year pay back time. The Cooperative Local Development Fund is set up as a
project structure. It belongs to, and is run by the people themselves, at the
beginning with professional support through the project Coordinator.. The costs
of running the micro-credit structures are covered under the local money
systems.
Once
the cooperative micro-credit structures and the LETS local money systems are in
place, the production structures can be set up, and in particular units for the
production of articles from gypsum composites. Amongst the priority items for
manufacture in these factories are products necessary for the water supply
project such as water tanks, well linings, water containers, etc. When capacity is available they can
start making the planned ecological sanitation systems, and other necessary
items such as high efficiency stoves, rainwater harvesting systems, construction
components. Since cheap gypsum or anhydrite deposits are (usually) present or
near the project area, no formal money is needed either for the raw materials or
for production. Installation and maintenance.
3.3 Sustainable
impact.
Apart
from structures basic to poverty alleviation and an improved quality of life,
such as hygiene education at home and in the schools, water supply, sanitation
in the homes at schools and in clinics, solar lighting for study purposes, solar
refrigeration for medicines in clinics, improved cooking stoves etc, no attempt is made in this project to list
all of the initiatives which could take place, as these are as varied as the
minds and wishes of the people.
However,
any services the local people may consider of special importance can always be
included in the project and itemised in the budget. Some examples are the
setting up of a local radio station, setting up local milk shops for the
pasteurisation and distribution of milk, the creation of cooperative storage
facilities for food, especially for food for local consumption, the creation of
a seed bank and the draining and re-structuring of market squares and public
places. Many such poverty alleviation initiatives may require some project-level
formal money funds. Other initiatives, for instance, creating sports clubs,
theatre groups, local consultants’ offices, or communications centres, plant
nurseries, reforestation etc would typically be done under a combination of the
LETS local money systems and the interest-free micro-credit systems.
The contributions made by users into
their Cooperative Local Development is sufficient to finance and repay an
interest free formal currency loan for up to Euro 3.750.000 over a period of 10
years, taking the various reserves and loan repayments into account. Should
payments out of reserves be higher than expected, the project administration may
choose to increase the monthly contribution of the families after four or five
years, as their standard of living improves. Interest-free loans for various project
structures transferred to private persons or cooperatives are paid back into the
Cooperative Local Development Fund over a period of 3-5 years. These loans
include those for the gypsum composites manufacturing units, the briquette
manufacturing units, public transport cooperatives (buses), and the maintenance
and installation cooperatives (vehicles). At the end of the ten years' period,
on repayment, where appropriate, of the ten year interest-free loan, large
capital reserves will again be built up during the following ten years for use
in Micro-credits and, subsequently, for the extension and renewal of the capital
goods. In case of loan repayment after ten years, funds available for
interest-free micro-credits will be reduced to zero. Since the families continue
to make their monthly payments to the Cooperative Local Development Fund, the
capital in the Fund for micro-credits will gradually build up again as it did
during the first period of ten years. Where the original seed funding was by way
of grant, the large amount of capital in the Fund at the close of the first
period of ten years will continue to circulate and accumulate.
The
principles of sustainable integrated development on which this project is based
are such that all, or at least a part of
users’ monthly contributions
to the Cooperative Local Development Fund can be covered by savings in their
current expenditure which are a direct consequence of the use of the project structures set
up. For instance, users no longer need to make formal money payments for
drinking water, for wood for cooking, or for rubbish collection. Some
sustainable applications under the project reduce CO2 emissions. The main one is
through the use of locally-produced high efficiency cooking stoves, others are
the substitution of the use of kerosene lamps by solar home systems, and of some
pumping systems by solar or advanced hand-pump technologies, and the reduction
of the use of non-rechargeable batteries. They therefore qualify under the Kyoto
treaty for the issue of CER certificates, which can be traded to industrialised
countries. The value of these certificates will contribute to covering the cost
of the projects and may, over time, cover all their costs, enabling the seed
capital to be recycled for other poverty alleviation initiatives.
3.4 How is the action linked to earlier
projects which have already taken place? (As applicable).
Not
applicable to this project.
3.5 Internal control and evaluation procedures.
The
integrated development concepts applied in this project are different from those
traditionally adopted. The local populations are themselves responsible for the
execution of most of the project works. They are prepared for their tasks during
Moraisian workshops. Their work is
carried out under the social and financial structures set up by the project. The
project coordinator, sole responsible for the execution of project activities
and his consultants give support and advice to the populations. The work and
services carried out by local inhabitants are effectively paid for by the local
population under the local money systems set up. Every transaction is duly
registered. A conversion rate of 3 Euro per eight-hour working day has been
applied to determine the formal money co-financing by the populations of the
project.
One
aspect of the tasks of the three levels ( tank commission, well commission and
central management) of operational structures put in place is to report on their
meetings and activities. These reports are put at the disposal of the
coordinator, the applicant as monitoring body, the on-going auditing commission,
and the independent auditor.
The
role of the applicant NGO and the project coordinator are very specific. The
applicant NGO is responsible for permanent on-going on site monitoring of project progress and of the
operation of the project coordinator and his team. The applicant is the controlling
organism, or the “parliament”. The project coordinator plays the role of the
executive, or the “government”. Following these concepts, the executive must
always remain entirely independent
from the applicant NGO, so as to avoid all risk of conflict of interests.
The applicant NGO, responsible for the project vis à vis funding agencies
exercises on-going continuous control over project execution and over the
activities of the project coordinator. The applicant NGO, once he has approved
the project at the start, may always express its opinion but may not intervene
directly in project execution. The monitoring activities of the applicant NGO
are in turn subject to control by the independent auditing commission. The work
of the auditing commission is in turn submitted to the control of an independent
auditor.
For
its activities as first level monitoring (“parliamentary control”) the applicant has many sources of
information available.
Most
of the social, financial and productive services set up by the project are
physically quantifiable. Since they are the services are put at the disposal of
all of the inhabitants in the project area, without exclusion, monitoring them
is relatively easy. The structures are concentrated in a limited territory. In
particular, drinking and sanitation structures are physically present following
a systematic known pattern.
For
the Health Clubs, reports on the workshops setting them up are available. The
applicant NGO participates in the
workshop activities. Reports on the activities of the individual clubs are
available. The applicant NGO may
attend meetings of Health Clubs chosen at random. Copies of the materials
prepared for the courses are available. The applicant NGO can carry out surveys
amongst the women in the project area. The same principles apply to the hygiene
courses in the schools.
For
the Tank Commissions, the heart of the project, reports on the workshops setting
them up are available. The applicant NGO
participates in the workshop activities. Reports on the activities of the
individual commissions are available.
The applicant NGO may attend monthly meetings of Tank Commissions chosen
at random and can inspect the physical structures they are responsible for and
check their operation. The applicant NGO can carry out surveys amongst the women
served by the tank commission concerned. The same applies to monitoring the
activities of the well commissions.
In
particular, the physical execution of clean drinking water facilities according
to the project plan can be physically inspected, starting with the
wells/boreholes, their equipment, the photovoltaic installations installed, the
presence of guards; pipe-line laying activities. He can check progress made on
the construction of the gypsum composite production units for the production of
tanks, tank supports and panel supports, and the designs for and the preparation
of forms and moulds for their manufacture. Subsequently he can monitor their
production and installation. He can check the physical distances between the
tank installations and the homes served and the activities for monitoring water
quality.
In
relation to sanitation, the applicant NGO can carry out physical on-site
inspection of the construction of the planned production units, and the
exploitation of local gypsum deposits. He can then check the design and
preparation of forms and moulds for the manufacture of the eco-sanitation
systems and their installation and operation. He can carry out surveys of
operation and monitoring at household level with households chosen at
random. He can organise general
surveys amongst the populations.
In
relation to the financial structures set up, the applicant NGO can make a
statistical comparison between the level of economic activity in the project
area before the start of the
project and the level of productivity after the start of the project. He can
carry out surveys amongst users; make a list of activities start after the
commencement of the project; study information and statistics on the number of
and value of the micro-credits made available. He can check the operation of the
local money LETS systems by on-site random surveys, by viewing the number of
transactions at each tank commission, well commission and project level and
their value; he can calculate the rate at which the local money credits are
recycling in the project area.
The
recycling network can be monitored by making random checks on the cleanliness of
the environment in the project area, by way of surveys amongst users, and by
physical visits to the individual recycling stations.
The
introduction of high efficiency cookers can be monitored by checking the
accounts of the stove production units, by checking the actual on-site
production of the stoves; by visiting and checking the mini-briquette production
units and their statistics and
books, by checking the
physical presence and use of the stoves in the homes of users chosen at random, and the
elimination of smoke inside and around the households. He can carry out surveys
amongst
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