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:
The
project is centred on basic hygiene education, on the installation of
sustainable sanitation, distributed clean drinking water, PV lighting for
study for all of the people without
exception in the project area, and on the supply of efficient stoves for
cooking, the production of bio-mass to fuel them, and recycling at local level
and disposal of non-organic waste.
The
project includes setting up Community Health Clubs for hygiene education and
hygiene education courses in schools; provides sustainable toilet and wastewater
facilities, wells (wherever necessary), pumps, and water tanks; establishes
local exchange trading (LETS) systems to promote local exchange of goods and
services; and implements a
revolving interest-free micro-credit system to pay in formal currency for
items and services originating outside the local communities.
The
project also refers to PV (photovoltaic) lighting for study and in clinics, and
PV refrigeration for medicines. Any PV lighting needed for separate local
production initiatives will be included in the micro-credit scheme. PV operated
TV sets for education can be included at the decision of the local tank
commissions. Private Solar Home Systems (SHS) may be financed through
interest-free cooperative purchasing
funds where users are able to sustain their obligations both to those
funds and their normal monthly contributions to the Cooperative Local
Development Funds.
High
efficiency stoves for cooking will be produced with 100% local value added as
will the bio-mass necessary to fuel them.
Where
daytime cooking is not in conflict with local customs, local manufacture of
solar cookers from gypsum composites will be set up under the LETS systems.
Recycling
centres will be set up to recycle non-organic refuse within the local currency
systems.
Harvesting
rain-water to increase agricultural production and the general quality of life
is promoted.
The
project cost is about Euro 5.000.000, which can be 75 financed through a grant
or through an interest free loan with a 10 year repayment time. The remaining
25% is contributed by the people themselves in the form of work carried out for
the execution of the project paid for under the local money systems set up in an
early phase of the project.
The
project will be continued for at least a further 8 years beyond the initial two
years' start-up period. After the initial two years, further development will be
generated by the communities themselves under the supervision of the Project
Coordinator.
The
initial project will take 24 months from the date funding is approved, more
particularly:
-
Phase 1 : preparation and submission of the basic project.
- Phase 2 : final
project preparation, arrangements with tax authorities; final project approval;
formation of Health Clubs and starting hygiene education; setting up the social and the financial
structures (local currency LETS
groups and micro-credit structures): 6 months.
-
Phase 3 : continuing hygiene education; installing wells hand-pumps and washing places; starting
the organisation of gypsum composite production units;
tank
installations; start building the sanitation services; starting cooker
production, organising bio-mass production, setting up the recycling centres :
18 months.
- Phase 4 : installing water purification units and PV lighting
systems for study purposes; continued production of cookers and of bio-mass to
fuel them. Rain-water harvesting.
Forward: long term
goals of the project.
Back: description of
habitat and homes in the project area.
List of drawings and
graphs.
Typical list of maps.
List of key
words.
List of
abbreviations used.
Documents for
funding applications.