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01: 12 November, 2009
01. E-course : Diploma in
Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev.)
SECTION B : SOLUTIONS TO THE
PROBLEMS.
Value: 06
points out of 18 .
Expected work
load: 186 hours out of 504.
The points
are finally awarded only on passing the consolidated exam for Section B :
Solutions to the Problems.
Fourth
block: The structures to be created.
Value : 03 points out of 18
Expected work load: 96 hours
out of 504
The points
are finally awarded only on passing the consolidated exam for Section B :
Solutions to the Problems.
Fourth block:
The structures to be created.
Section 2: Social structures. [16 hours]
13.00 hours : Social
structures.
03.00 hours :
Preparation report.
Section 2: Social structures. [16 hours]
Social structures :
analysis. [13.00 hours]
1. Health clubs. [
3.00 hours]
2. Tank commissions.
[2.50 hours]
3. Well commissions.
[2.50 hours]
4. Central committee.
[2.50 hours]
5. Three-tiered social
security structure. [2.50 hours]
03.00 hours :
Preparation report.
Social structures :
analysis. [13.00 hours]
2. Tank commissions.
[ At least 2.50 hours]
The anthropological justification for the choice of the tank commission as social structure was
discussed in section 01. First level : hunters-gatherers
of the section on anthropological analysis of the three levels of project
structures of the third block :
solutions to the problems.
The tasks of the 03. tank
commissions were analysed in Section
2 division of responsibilities of the third block : solutions to the problems.
This section refers to the formation of the tank
commissions.
One or more Moraisian workshops will be held to set
the Tank Commissions up. The tank commissions form the basic project structure.
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).
+/- 200 (mostly female) persons interested in participating with responsibility
for the management of projects structures as members of the Tank Commissions.
The participants will
be invited on indication of the Health Clubs which will already be in
operation. This means that the Health
Clubs must have been formed and be in operation before the tank commissions can
be formed.
Since a (large)
majority of the members of the Health
Clubs are women, it is expected that
most of the persons nominated to participate in the workshops will be women. On
the other hand, there is no problem with the nomination of male
representatives.
Purpose of the
workshop is the training of at least one
person for each (future) tank commission area for the organisation of
the formation of the tank commissions. The trainees will then explain to the
250 inhabitants (+/- 150-175 adults) of their tank commission areas what the
tasks and responsibilities of the tank commissions are. Hey will organise the
elections of the tank commission members. It is likely that the workshop
participants themselves be elected to the tank commissions. It is possible they
become the first chairperson of their commissions. On the other hand they may
choose not to be a candidate at the elections for the tank commission and/or
that another tank commission member be nominated chairperson.
Where Health Clubs cannot decide on one person
to represent them at the workshop, they are free to send two or more delegates.
There is in principle, no limit to the number of people participating in the workshop.
Duration
of each workshop: about four weeks.
The Workshops will be expected to produce the
following structures:
a) The organisation of the workshop itself.
b) Definition of the social form of the tanks
commissions and the well commissions.
- statutes
- rules
- financial aspects
- definition of the tasks
c) Organisation.
- meetings
- use of tanks and well areas
-payment of the tank
commission members once the local money systems have been formed.
d) Coordination.
- with project coordinator
- (future) local 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
- the formation of a social
security structure for the benefit of the poor, the sick, the handicapped and
the elderly.
e) A communications
structure.
-with the project
coordinator (during execution)
- vertical, at project level (coordinator)
- horizontal, with the +/- 40 local families
- with the +/- 40 households
served by the tank commission
f) Individual initiatives.
-Each tank commission
operates independently of the others. The people can decide the number of
commission members. The commissions can organise the management of meeting and
take any initiative they may consider useful.
g)
Economic aspects.
- Once the local money system in each project area is
up and going, the local populations are
free to decide on the payment (under the local money systems) for community
members helping the populations served, starting with the members of the tank
commission and passing to members responsible for other structures created.
- The tank
commission will organise the collection of the monthly formal money
contributions of the families to the Cooperative Local Development Fund.
These will usually be between Euro 0,60 and Euro 0,75
per person per month.
The importance of social control for the good operation of project
structures has already stressed, for
instance in section 02. Second level: groups of
clans with chief. This social control operates reciprocally between
the tank commission members on the one hand and the populations served on the
other, and amongst the individual members of the community.
1. Opinion.
Make a single page analysis of the social
control in question and the responsibilities it brings with it.
Base level management by elected tank commissions
brings a form of direct democracy to every tank commission area, and, through
+/- 200 tank commissions and +/0 35-45
well commissions throughout the project area.
2. Research.
A village
chief who is (eventually) chosen as local tank commission member would have to
answer for his actions to the local population. Explain on one page the changes
this form of responsibility would bring
with it.
3. Opinion.
On one page, set out your personal
opinion on the new freedoms and limitations that the formation of tank
commissions would bring to the local populations. Why would the local tank
commission be accepted, or, if applicable, refused, by the local populations in
your project area ?
4. Opinion.
A tank
commission which takes initiatives and works well will serve as an example to
others in surrounding areas. On one page explain hw you as project coordinator would
seek to encourage the tank commissions in your project area to work well. Who
would make the decisions in question ?
5. Research.
On the basis
of your personal experience in your chosen area, explain on one page whether
you think it likely that conflicts
between one tank commission area and another might arise ? Which
ones ? For which reasons ? What would you do to solve them ?
The graph showing costs for the creation of the social structures (item 301)
gives an idea, quarter by quarter, of expenditure on the formation
of the social structures for an integrated development project.
6. Research.
Make a one page description of the graph
in so far as it refers to the creation of the tank commissions.
◄ Fourth block : Section 2 : The social structures.
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