Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener
50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The
Tel:
0031-227-604128
Homepage:
http://www.flowman.nl
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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:
-
A
general manager (chosen for leadership qualities and vision – need not be
literate)
-
A
general accountant (some technical background) and
trainee.
-
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.