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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]
4. Central committee.
[ At least 2.50 hours]
The anthropological justifications for the choice of a central committee
as a third level for the social structures are set out in 03. Third level : states in the anthropological analysis
at three levels part of the third block :
solutions to the problems.
The tasks of the Central Committee and
of the general management were discussed in Section 2 division of the responsibilities of the third block :
solutions to the problems.
This section
is about the creation of the central committee.
The central
committee is the
«parliament » of each project. It represents all the +/-
50.000 inhabitants of the project area, in so far as the permanent management of the project
structures is concerned. Every inhabitant resident in the project area is
automatically a member of the Permanent Cooperative for the management of the
project structures.
Read the 05.07 Statutes of the Cooperative for the on-going
management of the project structures once
again.
The central
committee is formally the legal owner of the project structures. Property at
central level is held in the name of
"central committee". Property owned by individual well
commissions is held by the central committee as [name of the cooperative] "the central committee for and on behalf
of the [well commission in question]" . Property owned by individual tank
commissions is held by [name of the cooperative]
" the central committee for an don behalf of the [tank commission in question]".
Where there are parallel structures for specific services such as the
local money system, the micro-credit system, or collective health and education
structures, the central committee holds property as [name of the cooperative] " the central committee for and on
behalf of the [local money
structure]" ; for and on behalf of
[the micro-credit structure]" etc.
This construction
has been preferred to the pluralisation of possible legal subjects. For
example, each of the +/- 200 tank commissions
and each of the +/- 35-45 well
commissions could in fact qualify for legal personality. This form of legal
pluralisation would add to costs and bureaucracy and could, in cases of
conflict, have effects on the unity of the project structures.
1. Opinion.
Give a one-page explanation of why a
single management cooperative has been preferred. Consider aspects such as
legal and administrative costs deriving from a proliferation of legal
entities, possible consequences for
project unity, lack of qualified personnel.
The Central
Committee is made up from one member chosen by each well commission in the
project area. The number of members of the central committees will therefore
vary from one project area to another. The Central Committees are expected to
have between 35 and 45 members.
This means that the
project «Parliament » is selected through a second level of indirect
representation. The first level is the election of the members of the well
commissions by the tank commissions. The second is the election of the Central
Committee members by the well commissions. All the inhabitants in a given
project area are automatically members of the Cooperative for the Management of
the Project Structures. The tank commissions are elected by the members. The
well commissions and the Central Committee are chose by way of indirect
representation. While the people themselves can decide on the term of office at
each administrative level, it is expected that Central Committee members be
chosen for three year terms.
2. Opinion.
Follow up your work on the well
commissions by explaining on two pages the reasons for the choice in favour of
indirect representation for the election of the members of the Central
Committee. Remember the role reserved for women, the simplicity and the
stability of the structures, the education
on and familiarisation with
political and administrative procedures in general and the factors mentioned in
section 03. Third level : states in
the anthropological analysis of the three administrative
levels of the third block: solutions to the
problems. Open your work with
a short introduction and end it with
your conclusions.
The 05.07 Statutes of the Cooperative for the Management
of the Project Structures provide for a general management for the
day to day running of the project’s central structures. The general management
is nominated by the central committee, usually for a one-year term. It is
therefore a third level of indirect representation that is subject to revision
on a yearly basis.
3.
Opinion.
Make a single-page analysis (you can be
as critical as you wish ! ) on the democratic and auditing control the general management is subjected
to.
The third
Millennium Development Goal is 03. Promotion of gender equality and the empowerment
of women which was reviewed in Section 1. Analysis of the Millennium
Goals in block 2 of the course.
In
section 03. Promotion of gender equality and
the empowerment of women in Section 2: Relate the Millennium Goals to the
Services described in section 2 of the first block an analysis was
made of how the services provided under integrated development projects meet
the requirements of the third Millennium Goal.
4.
Opinion.
Make a two-page analysis on how the
formation of the social structures themselves contributes to the achievement of
the third Millennium Goal.
Formation of the Central Committee.
An organisational workshop will be held for the training of the first members of the Central Committee of each project.
Probable
participants:
Moraisian trainers.
Project coordinator.
General consultant.
1 Representative of the
Finance Ministry.
1 Representative of the Ministry of Rural Development.
5 Observers (possible coordinators of future projects)
+/- 50-100 persons (mostly women), indicated by the well commissions, who have
expressed interest in becoming Central Committee members.
Participants are invited on indication of the well commissions, which will already be in operation. That means that all the Well Commission in a project area must be operative before the first Central Committee can be formed.
The well commissions are invited to choose people to send participate in the workshop for the training of Central Committee members. Since the well commission are expected to have a majority of women members, most of the people attending the workshops should also be women. Participation of men is, at the same time, always welcome.
Purpose of the workshop is to train at least one person (there is no limit to the number of workshop participants) from each well commission area in the project area. The workshop participants will explain the tasks and the responsibilities of the central committee both to the other well commission members and to the 1500-2000 inhabitants served by the well commission.
The well commissions elect their member to the central committee. It is likely that the trainees participating in the workshop be chosen. The central committee will then choose one of its members as first chairperson of the central committee. Workshop trainees are of course free not to seek nomination to the central committee. Each well commission may choose either the person (or one of the persons) who participated in the workshop as its representative, or any other inhabitants in the well commission area, to represent it on the Central Committee.
The workshops should set up::
a) The practical organisation of the workshop itself.
b) The final definition of the social form of the Management Cooperative.
- Review of the statutes of the Cooperative.
- Rules for running the cooperative (if applicable).
- Financial organisation.
- Specific responsibilities of the participants.
c)Organisation :
-
Central Committee meetings.
d) Choice of the General Management.
e) Task by task analysis of the duties of the General Management.
f) Communications.
- With the NGO cooperative responsible for project execution (temporary).
- With the project coordinator
(temporary).
- Vertical : with the well commissions.
- Horizontal : With Management Cooperatives of other projects.
- With formal public administrative organs.
g) Finance.
-
Operation of bank accounts.
- Operation of the local money system.
- Operation of the micro-credits system.
- Management of mutual funds.
h) Management of services.
- Drinking water services.
- Sanitation services.
- Waste recycling services.
- Project health services.
- Project education services.
- Ecological services.
etc
i) Management of productive structures.
- Gypsum quarries.
- Production of articles made from gypsum composites.
- Production of mini-briquettes and bio-mass.
- Ecological structures.
<- Sports structures.
Etc.
5.
Opinion.
You are a woman and member of a well commission. An applicant claiming to be qualified to represent your well commission on the central committee comes along. You are not in favour .On one page to your colleagues of the well commission why you think the applicant should not be accepted. (With this exercise you are being asked to reflect on the eventual negative factors to watch out for when selecting representatives to the central committee. For example, a “traditionalist” view of local society, autocratic precedents, corruption, intolerance towards people newly arrived in the community, tense personal relations with other members of the community.
◄ Fourth block : Section 2 : The social structures.
◄ Main index for the Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev.)
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