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 12:03 November
2006
Refer
also to:
TANK COMMISSIONS - THE
KEY STRUCTURES.
WELL COMMISSIONS
All
activities will be carried out by the users themselves. The structures are
worked out during the organisational workshops foreseen. The following is what
might expect to result from the workshops.
The
basic administrative structure foreseen by the project is the Tank Commission.
The
tasks of the Tank Commission are numerous and include, by way of example,:
-
Analysis of the local situation (200 people - 40 families)
- Definition of
the local issues and problems
- Liaison with the Health Clubs already
established
- Liaison with the local currency LETS systems about to be
formed
- Organisation of monthly users' meetings
- Identification of the
best projects for Micro-credit development loans
- Setting priorities for
Micro-credit loans
- Deciding the priorities for positioning the wells and
washing places, with special input from women's groups
- Deciding the
positioning of tanks and water pipeline routes
- Deciding priorities for the
positioning and installation of sanitation units
- Deciding the pot sizes
for stoves and solar cookers
- Liaison with the compost collection and
recycling network
- Liaison with the grey water/urine collection and
recycling network
- Planning what can be done by the local people themselves
at the normal ruling daily rate of pay (which is usually about Euro 3 per person
per day) and what can be done in the local LETS currency
- Systematically
monitoring project progress and on-going administration with the users'
commissions (comprising mostly women)
- Organising daily maintenance of the
tank areas, rules of use
- Managing any local disputes relating to the
project
- Collection of the monthly contributions to the Cooperative
Development Fund
- Nomination of participants to various organisational
workshops
- Proposals for the support of families with difficulty in making
their contributions
MORAISIAN
WORKSHOPS : LOCAL SOCIAL STRUCTURES
(One,
two or three) Moraisian workshop(s) will be held. The Tank Commissions form the
basic project structure and the workshops can involve up to 2000 people.
Indicative
participation (all workshops together) .
The
Moraisian trainers.
The project coordinator.
General Consultant.
Representative of the NGO.
Representative of the Finance Ministry.
Representative of the Rural Development ministry.
At least 5 observers
(possible coordinators for future projects).
1750 (mostly female) persons
interested in participating with responsibility for the management of projects
structures as members of the Tank Commissions. 35% of these people might be
indicated by the traditional chiefs, 65% by the local Health Clubs.
Duration
of each workshop: about four weeks.
The
Workshops will be expected to produce the following structures:
a)
Definition of the social form of the tanks commissions and the well commissions.
- statutes
- rules
- financial aspects
- definition of the tasks
b)
Organisation.
- meetings
- use of tanks and well areas
-payment
of the tank commission members once the local money systems have been
formed.
c)
Coordination.
- with project coordinator
- (future) local SEL-LETS
system
- between local tank commissions and the well commission
- with
local schools
- with local clinics/hospitals
- with (future) recycling
systems
- with (future) micro-credit structures
d)
A communications structure.
- vertical, at project level (coordinator)
-
horizontal, with the +/- 40 local families
e)
Individual initiatives.
Back:
hygiene education structures.
List of drawings and
graphs.
Typical list of maps.
List of key
words.
List of
abbreviations used.
Documents for
funding applications.
