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
Sustainable fully
ecological poverty alleviation in rural and poor urban environments,
incorporating an innovative package of social, financial, and productive
structures, with basic services necessary for a good quality of life for all, a
leading role for women, and numerous renewable energy applications.
"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 14: 03
October 2007.
Summary.
This project is a practical working plan for the sustainable ecological
self-financing integrated development of (definition of the project area). The
package of financial instruments used and the specific sequence of actions
followed to set up the structures necessary for project execution are
particularly innovative. Capacities of the local people are fully exploited.
Advanced low-cost technologies for local productivity development are
recommended. The project covers many sectors of activity, including:
Social structures.
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The creation of (200) self-administered sustainable
Health Clubs, each one typically serving 40-50 families, designed to create a
platform guaranteeing full participation of women in the project.
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The creation of (200) self-administered sustainable
local development groups each one typically representing the same 40-50
families (200-300 persons). In this project they are referred to as tank
commissions.
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The creation of
(35) self-administered sustainable intermediate level development groups
each one typically representing the 300-400 families (about 2000 persons). In
this project they are referred to as well commissions.
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The creation of
a self-administered sustainable project-level development management
unit typically representing all of the (10.000) families (typically about
50.000 persons) in the project area. In this project the population in the
project area is (50.000).
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The creation of a self-administered sustainable
three-tiered social security structure for the protection of the elderly, the
sick, the poor and the handicapped in the project area, for both their formal
money and their local money needs.
Financial structures needed to set up a cooperative,
interest-free, inflation-free economic environment in the project area.
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The creation of self-administered sustainable
continuously recycling, interest-free, inflation-free cooperative local money
structures in the project area.
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The creation of self-administered sustainable
continuously recycling, interest-free, cooperative micro-credit structures for
productivity increase in the project area.
Productive structures.
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(Two) low-cost labour-intensive fully ecological units
for the production of items made for the project and for general purposes from
gypsum composites.
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(Thirty-five) units for the sustainable production of
mini-briquettes for locally produced high efficiency stoves.
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The creation of a complete, fully sustainable, three-tiered operative system for the
local recycling of organic and non-organic wastes.
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(400) sustainable initiatives for the local production
of bio-mass for mini-briquettes for high-efficiency cooking stoves.
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(One) local cooperative for the on-going sustainable
installation and maintenance of all
project structures.
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(Description of other productive structures the local
inhabitants may wish to include in the main project activities. Examples: a local radio station; a cooperative import-export structure for goods
exported from and imported into the project area; local milk shops for the pasteurisation
and distribution of milk; cooperative storage facilities for food, especially
for food for local consumption; a seed bank; draining and re-structuring of market
squares and public places. Many such poverty alleviation initiatives may
require some project-level formal money seed funds. Others such as sports
clubs, theatre groups, local consultants’ offices, communications
centres, plant nurseries, and reforestation activities can usually be carried
out under a combination of the LETS local money systems and the interest-free
micro-credit systems set up.)
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The creation of (4000- give real expected number)
sustainable productive jobs, being jobs for (10%) of the adult population in
the project area.
Service structures.
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The creation of (200) self-administered sustainable
solar powered distributed drinking water systems at tank commission level with
(35) reserve backup facilities at well commission level , together with (10.000) rainwater harvesting structures
at household level for extra water capacity.
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The installation of complete locally-built composting
toilet (sanitation) structures in every
home in the project area. In this project the installation of (10.000)
systems in homes is foreseen together with (50) multiple systems in schools,
clinics, and public places.
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The creation of a complete, fully sustainable, three-tiered structure for the local
recycling of organic and non-organic wastes.
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The construction of (200) study rooms at tank
commission level equipped with photovoltaic lighting structures for study
purposes, and (50) photovoltaic lighting structures in the schools and clinics in the
project area.
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The use of
(20.000) locally built high efficiency cooking stoves, two in each of
the (10.000) homes in the project area for the elimination of smoke hazards to
health, especially for the benefit of women and children, and the reduction of
carbon dioxide emissions in the project area.
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(Description of other service structures the local
inhabitants may want included in
the main project activities. Examples, where financial means are available at
tank commission, well-commission, or
project level, are centralised support services for local cooperative
purchasing of solar home systems and water heating systems using structures similar to
those of self-terminating building societies in industrialised countries; and
cooperative forms of insurance. )
Some of the typical improvements to the quality of
life of all the inhabitants in the project area.
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Distributed drinking water supply with (200) solar powered water points.
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Support to educational structures and adult
alphabetisation with (200)
structures and lighting for study purposes.
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On-going hygiene education through the (200) Health
Clubs and institutionalised hygiene
education courses for children in schools.
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Sanitation through the installation of (10.000)
systems in private homes and (50) collective sanitation structures in schools,
clinics, and public places.
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Environmental sanitation through local waste recycling
structures in the project area.
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Photovoltaic lighting and refrigeration for the conservation of medicines and
vaccines in clinics in the project
area.
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Use of (20.000) locally made high-efficiency cookers
and the elimination of smoke inside and around homes.
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Rational use of local bio-masse to eliminate the
consumption of wood and other “imported fuels” for cooking
purposes.
The project will give a strong thrust to sustainable ecological
productivity in the project area and offers the possibility of full employment
there through initiatives planned, executed, run, maintained, owned and paid
for by the beneficiary communities themselves.
The extensive and voluntary participation of the beneficiary populations
in the execution of the project, duly paid for by the population themselves under
the local money systems set up, helps ensure the personal involvement of all
the inhabitants in the project structures and the success of the project
activities.
The project creates a precedent for local economic development in areas
adjacent to the project area and for large-scale application of the concepts
presented for the preparation of a national local economy development plan in
(country where the project is to take place).
Forward: general information on
project background.
Executive summary of the Model.
Declaration of participation by
the local populations (example).
Environmental evaluation.(example)
List of keywords.
List of drawings and graphs.
Typical list of maps.
List of abbreviations used.
Information on the applicant.
Documents for funding
applications.
Powerpoint presentation.(Example)
Presentation of basic
concepts using transparents.
Published articles on specific
aspects of the Model.
Draft projects prepared in
english and french using the principles introduced by the Model.
Information needed to draft
a new project.
