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Edition
01: 03 November, 2009.
Edition
01 : 18 June, 2012.
01. E-course : Diploma in
Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev.)
SECTION B : SOLUTIONS TO THE
PROBLEMS.
Value : 06
points out of 18.
Work
foreseen: 186 hours out of 504.
The points are awarded only
after passing the consolidated exam for Section B : Solutions to the problems.
Third block : Solutions to the problems.
Value : 01 point our of 18.
Work foreseen: 36 hours out of
504.
[16.00 Hours] Section
1 : Anthropological analysis of the three levels of project structures.
(Value 0.5 point)
[16.00 Hours] Section
2 : Division of responsibilities amongst the three levels of structures.
(Value 0,5 point)
The point is awarded only
after passing the consolidated exam for Section B : Solutions to the problems.
[16.00 Hours] Section
2 : Division of des responsibilities amongst the three levels of
structures. (Value 0,5 point)
Division of
responsibilities. [14.00 Hours]
01. The chain of responsibilities.
02. Illustration of the
division of responsibilities.
06. Permanent cooperative for
the management of the project structures.
07. Cooperative for project
execution.
[02.00 Hours] Report on
Section 2 of Block 3.
Third block : Exam. [ 4 hours per attempt]
Division of
responsibilities. [14.00 Hours]
03. Tank commissions. (At least 2 hours)
This
section refers only to the division of tasks. For the creation of the
structures see Section 2 : Social structures of Block 4 :The structures to be created.
For the
anthropological justification of the tank commissions see Section. 1 : Anthropological analysis of Block 3 :Solutions to the
problems.
David Korten writes :
“Earth’s
biosphere, the product of 3.5 billion years of trial-and-error learning, is
global in scale yet truly local everywhere, and organizes from the bottom up.
With its continuous repurposing and recycling, nothing is wasted. As a system,
it has an extraordinary capacity to adapt to local conditions and optimize the
sustainable capture, exchange, storage, and recycling of energy, water, and
nutrients. This is the key to its impressive resilience and productivity. It
meets the needs of all the world’s living organisms, without any equivalent of
money, global corporations, central authority, or the destabilizing use of
fossil fuels.
“Because
each local subsystem balances its consumption and reproduction with local
resource availability, the global system maintains a healthy, dynamic balance
with Earth’s total water, energy, and nutrient resources.
“Providing
for our human needs while bringing ourselves into balance with Earth, our
living home, depends on creating a New Economy that works in symbiotic
partnership with the biosphere’s structure and dynamics to optimize the health
and well-being of all. This economy would consist of a planetary system of
resilient, locally rooted, self-reliant bio-regional economies. They would be
comprised of human-scale, locally owned enterprises that work in symbiotic
partnership with their individual local ecosystems, meeting local needs with
local resources. As each local economy comes into balance with its own place
on Earth, the global economy will in turn come into balance with Earth itself. ”(Rio+20 : A defining Choice,
YES !
Magazine,
The basic administrative unit under integrated development projects,
after that of the individual households is called the tank commission. It may
also be referred to as a local development commission. Tank commissions usually
represent between 200 and 350 people, or 40-50 families, all of which are
served by a local drinking water tank.
Tank commissions have many important tasks. Together, they form the hub of integrated
development projects.
An active role of women at this level addresses the problems concerning
women’s participation in the development process. The hygiene education structures are used to ensure a majority participation
of women on the tank commissions.
All
tank commission activities are carried out by the inhabitants themselves.
Details of the structures are worked out by the participants a Moraisian
workshop in the course of the early phases of execution of the project in
question.
For
information on Moraisian workshops see annexes
09.11 Information on organisational workshops
and 09.12 Bibliography on
organisational workshops.
For clarity, each tank commission receives a small monthly formal money
contribution (to the order of Euro 5 per month) that it can utilise at its
discretion, for example to subsidise the monthly contributions of the poorest
families to the local development funds.
Bear
i n mind that all public activities at tank commission level are monetised
under the local money system set up in an early project phase. Everyone is paid
for what he/she does for the benefit of the community. No-one is asked to work
without payment. Obviously everyone s free to decide how to split his /her time.
No-one is blocked from carrying out voluntary un-paid work should he/she wish
to do it.
Here
are a few of the tank commission’s
tasks :
Illustration of the tank commission’s tasks.
Some of the tasks relate to the democratic participation of the
inhabitants in te projects.
Others are connected to the ownership in the physical structures.
Others are linked to the management of physical structures.
Others are linked to the financial management structures.
Others again are linked to the management of social structures.
1. Research.
On one page.
List the activities under each of the five groups named. The activities given
apply to all of the tank commissions. Other activities can be organised by individual
tank commissions by most of them, of by some of them. Feel free to add other activities you think are
relevant in your project area to the list. For example the property in primary
schools, homes/centre for nursing help,
and sports activities. Think of
the ownership and management of
bicycle paths, solar public lighting, plantations, the management of
gypsum deposits .....There will usually be a cooperative insurance system
without any formal money costs ; cooperative purchasing groups.....
Some tasks can in principle be delegated by the tank
commission to other members of the population served by the commission. For
example, the practical organisation of
the local money system or the management of interest-free micro-credits, or the
organisation of the waste recycling systems.
2. Opinion.
On one page
express your vision of the (eventual) delegation of tasks at tank commission
level in your project area. Do you consider the delegation of tasks a good
idea?
Some structures may be shared by two tank commission
areas. For example, the population served by a given tank commission may be too
small to support a primary school or other structures of its own.
3. Opinion.
On one page
describe how you would manage structures common to more than one tank
commission area.
Suppose that a tank commission structure be used by
persons resident in another tank commission area or by persons residing outside
the project area. For example where the tank commission area has boundaries
with a territory where there is not integrated development project.
4. Opinion.
On one page
write two paragraphs each with +/- 250 words explaining how you would resolve
these problems.
The activities of a tank commission are multiplied by
+/- 200 times according to the number of tank commissions active in a given
integrated development project. Each tank commission is autonomous. It develops
and manages its services as it likes. The total of all of the activities at
project level resembles +/- 200 plates
of spaghetti. On each plate, the spaghettis are in movement amongst each other,
but they are not in contact with the spaghettis on the other plates. Each spaghetto on a plate leads its
own life. Some will succeed better than others. Some may not work very well at
all.
5. Opinion.
On one page
describe how positive and negative experiences could be shared amongst the
different tank commissions.
