07 - Period report to 30/6/2009
Report to the board under
article 5 of the Director’s
rules (document in Dutch) dated
25/10/2005.
This is the seventh report on
the activities of NGO Stichting
Bakens Verzet (Another Way). The report covers activities from 1/1/2009 to 30/6/2009.
The organisation has
continued work on its Model for self-financing,
ecological, sustainable local integrated development projects for the
world’s poor.
Starting the first week in
January 2009, work was started on the drafting of a full year’s
e-learning course at post-master’s level for the Diploma in Integrated
Development. A contract was signed
with University Sorbonne III in Paris and Master’s student Mr Victor
Onadja of Niamey Niger for a nine-months’
internet internship for this purpose. The course is being drafted in French. At
the end of June 2009, work on block
4 of the course was nearing completion.
The course is expected to be ready by the end of September as planned.
Writing the course is a massive undertaking. To be able to do it, the Director
has had to close himself off from the outside world for the whole period.
On 30th January 2009 a letter was received from the Foreign
Affairs Department refusing the second-round application for financing of the Vivons
Makalondi project in Niger.(in french). The project was re-submitted with
variations to meet the requirements of the Department after refusal during the
first round. He director applied under the
Dutch law on access to public documents to get a list of the projects
financed under the Schokland funds. He had even more difficulty obtaining the
list of the members of the evaluation committee, as the first request was
refused. Projects were supposed to
be innovative, potentially applicable on a large scale, and without possibility
of finance from other sources. Winning projects included a project by Heineken
for the “local transport of
raw products to local breweries.” Cordaid (one of the major
state-subsidised Dutch development groups) received more than Euro 5.000.000
for a “cluster of activities relating to reproductive health”. A
bank received more than Euro 3.000.000 for “financing sustainable
development chains”. Two projects involved food fortification. One for
the promotion of fortification of food with folate (foliumzuur) and one
for Euro 6.000.000 for the
“certification and financial instrumentarium for food
fortification.”
In February and March 2009
a plan proposal for the integrated development of the
Uvia-Fizi area in RD Congo was drafted. This involved setting up a local
consortium of 14 local NGO’s which would be responsible for the plan. For
information refer to Proposed plan – Regional
Plan for the Uvira-Fizi area, South Kivu, Dem. Rep. of Congo (in French).
In March 2009 support was
given to the local NGO Women Action for Development and Solidarity of Ujiji,
Kigoma province, Tanzania,
in relation to a project entitled “Responding to female mutilation in
refugee camps” which was submitted to a Dutch donor for financing.
In April and May 2009 a plan proposal for the
integrated development of the North, Mouhoun and Centre West regions of Burkina Faso was drafted in cooperation with the
NGO Association de Lutte Contre la Pauvreté
(ALCP) in Ouagadougou.
For information refer to Proposed plan -
Regional Plan for the North, Mouhoun and Centre West Regions of Burkina
Faso. (in French).
In May 2009 a national plan proposal for the
integrated development of Gabon
was prepared in cooperation with a group of Gabon
nationals living in the Netherlands.
For more information refer to Proposed plan – National Plan for Gabon (in French).
The website homepage www.flowman.nl was re-written to try to ensure that no more than three
clicks are needed to reach any major part of the website material. Work on
L.F.Manning’s debt model of the financial system was first posted on the website in May 2009.
(Ondertekend, Amsterdam, 21/7/2009)
De Directeur
T.E.Manning