Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener 50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The
Tel:
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Homepage:
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Incorporating
innovative social, financial, economic, local administrative and productive
structures, numerous renewable energy applications, with an important role for
women in poverty alleviation in rural and poor urban environments.
"Money is not
the key that opens the gates of the market but the bolt that bars them"
Gesell, Silvio The
Natural Economic Order
Revised English
edition, Peter Owen, London 1958, page 228
Edition 11:
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Project management structure.
Women play a basic role in the management of the structures set up.
There are three management levels:
The tank commissions. The tank
commissions are the administrative heart of the project.
The well commissions.
The well commissions have specific tasks, including the election of the central
management structure.
The central management structure, which is chosen by the well
commissions, usually but not necessarily from amongst their own members.
The form and tasks of the project management structure will be decided
during the Moraisian workshop where the social structures of the project are
planned and set up. It is a permanent structure subject to reconfirmation by
election on a yearly, two-yearly or three-yearly basis. It can normally be
expected to have about seven to nine members.
The first management structure will usually be set up during the third
quarter, after the formation of the well commissions and the financial
structures. The members of the management structure will be paid under the
local money systems. The structure will, however, also have formal money costs
to meet, and an allowance, usually about Euro 15.000 per year, is made
available through the Cooperative Local Development Fund for this purpose. This
is part of the standard on-going
formal money expenditure covered by the monthly contributions made by the
inhabitants.
The central project management will initially be supported during the
first two executive years by the Project Coordinator, with the help of the
General Consultant. The Project Coordinator, or his successor, will continue to
assist the central management of the project until the initial seed capital for
the project has, where applicable,
been repaid at the close of the first ten years’ project cycle. Since
the Project Coordinator remains formally legally responsible to the NGO
responsible for the project until loan repayments have been made, the central
project management answers to the Project Coordinator.
While the Project Coordinator retains a right of veto, especially on
financial issues, until all loan repayments, where applicable, have been made
at the close of the first project period of ten years, the project management
will be expected to operate autonomously from the moment of its taking
office.
Amongst its tasks:
Ownership and management of the central project offices and depot.
Coordination of ownership
and management of decentralised project structures.
Coordination and management of all issues for which neither the tank commissions
nor the well commissions are directly responsible.
Liaison at project level with, and support for, the local social,
financial, service, and productive structures set up.
Settlement of project-related conflicts.
The central project management is responsible by default for any
project-related service or obligation for which no specific provision is
available in the project organisation.
The central management will normally comprise:
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A general manager (chosen for leadership
qualities and vision – need not be literate)
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A general accountant (some technical
background) and trainee.
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A computer specialist (system controller) and
trainee.
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Secretarial staff (2) including at least one
person with (some) knowledge of English or French
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Store-persons/drivers (2)
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Gardner (optional)
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Guards, two or more, as required.
Cleaning services, gardener, guards can be supplied externally through
cooperatives operating within the local money systems set up.
Forward: environmental impact study.
Back: Project management structure.
List of drawings and graphs.
Typical list of maps.
List of key words.
List of abbreviations used.
Documents for funding
applications.