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:
For
a drawing of the institutional structures foreseen refer to:
DRAWING OF
STRUCTURES.
CASH FLOW
DIAGRAM.
HOW THE ORIGINAL SEED
LOAN MONEY IS USED.
THE INTEREST-FREE LOAN
CYCLE .
Permanent
on-going procedures to maintain and administer the system will be worked out
with the users themselves during Organization Workshops to be run for this
purpose, (with the involvement of
the NGO Bakens Verzet through its director Terry Manning as consultant
for this first pilot project), the project coordinator, the tanks and wells
commissions, and the maintenance and inspection
cooperatives.
The purpose is to create a "maintenance
culture".
Structures
to be created include:
social
structures,
being the Health Clubs, the tanks commissions, the well commissions and the
project management;
financial
structures,
including local money systems and interest-free micro-credit structures for
productivity development;
service
structures
for a good basic quality of life, including systems for installation and
maintenance of the drinking water supply system, sanitation and waste recycling
structures;
and
productive structures,
including gypsum composite production units, structures for the production of
bio-mass and mini-briquettes for cooking, not to forget the local radio station.
Diagram showing the
main project structures.
The
users themselves are responsible for the creation of the project structures and
their the execution, running and maintenance. They pay for and own the
structures.
The
users will create the structures during a series of organisational workshops
following the method developed by the Brazilian sociologist Clodomir Santos de
Morais.
Bibliography of the work of de
Morais.
Information on
the work of de Morais.
The
project will try to put at the disposal of the often very large groups involved
in the workshops, but ONLY ON REQUEST, the consultants, materials and equipment
necessary for the services and structures in question. The groups organise
themselves (often with great difficulty), set up their administrative
structures, procure the necessary authorisations and permits, proceed with the
construction of factories, and to the production and sale of their products and
services as they consider fit.
Key
to the formation of the structures foreseen in the project is the order in which
the workshops are held. It is not possible to hold workshops to set up the tank
commissions (the key project structures) until a suitable platform has been
created to enable women to organise themselves, express themselves at meetings
and actively participate in the project structures. This is done during the
organisation workshop setting up the health clubs. It is not possible to set up
structures for the manufacture of articles for sanitation purposes if the local
money LETS systems making their production, distribution, sale and installation
under local money LETS systems without the need for formal money until the LETS
systems have been established.
The
order or sequence for the execution of the workshops is the following:
Social
structures.
5.12 Health
clubs.
5.13 Tank
commissions
5.14
Well
commissions
5.15
Project
management structure
5.16
Social
security structure.
Financial
structures.
5.21
LETS
systems.
5.22 Micro-credit
systems.
Productive
structures
5.41 Gypsum composite
production units.
5.42 Units for the
production of min-briquettes.
5.43 Production of bio-mass
for mini-briquettes.
Service
structures
5.31
Drinking water structures.
5.33 Recycling
systems.
5.34 Lighting
etc.
5.35
Smoke hazards.
5.36 Education.
5.37
Rainwater harvesting.
5.38
Reforestation.
Other
productive structures as listed in section 5.40 of the index.
The
workshops represent a general mobilisation of the population, with an active
participation of at least 4000-5000 people out of a total of 50.000,
representing about 10% of the active adult population.
Forward: list of
participating parties.
Back: five
conditions precedent.
List of drawings and
graphs.
Typical list of maps.
List of key
words.
List of
abbreviations used.
Documents for
funding applications.
