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01. E-course :
Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip. Int.Dev.)
Edition
01: 06 December, 2009
Study points
: 05 points out of 18
Minimum study
time : 125 hours out of 504
The study
points are awarded upon passing the consolidated exam for
Section C : The Model.
Seventh block:
Regional and national plans.
Study points : 01 point out of 18
Minimum study time: 24 hours out of
504
The study
points are awarded upon passing the consolidated exam for Section
C : The Model.
Seventh block: Regional and national plans.
Section 4: Plan proposal for the
integrated development of your country.
Minimum study time: 5 hours out of 504
02.00 Hours : The information needed.
02.00 Hours : Preparation of the plan.
01.00 Hour : Report.
Exam Block 7
Time allowed: 3 hours out of 504
Section 4: Plan proposal for the
integrated development of your country.
The information needed. (At least 2 hours)
For regional plan structures
refer to part 07. Sketch
for national plans in section 1 anthropological
analysis of the third block solutions to the problems ot the course.
The creation of local economy networks at regional level was discussed extensions to national level
plans in section 1 of this seventh block : National and regional plans.
The relationships amongst regional-level system were analysed in relationships with other projects at national level in section 2 of this
seventh block..
In this
Section 4 our purpose is to develop a national
integrated development plan.
The Model makes the drafting of fully detailed national or regional integrated
development plans to meet nearly all of
the Millennium goals quick, easy, and cheap. How quickly the plans are
prepared depends on the number of people (usually students or active members of
grass-roots NGOs) and the number of individual projects (about 20 for each
million inhabitants) involved. The maximum period for plan preparation is about
three months, the minimum period one month.
In Section 3 of this seventh block regional level plans were developed..
Obviously,
cor countries with small populations, the regional plans drawn up under Section
3 are
already sufficient to meet requirements at national level.
An
example (in French) of a national plan for a country with a small population is
the Plan for the integrated development of
Gabon .
Many countries have larger populations. An example (in French) of a
national plan for a country with a larger population is the National plan for Niger , a country with a population of 13.500.000
habitants. Countries like Niger
For countries (like
a) To make several regional plans and collate the documentations to make
a National Plan, or
b) Jump the Regional Plans and make a single National Plan, which in
practice contemporaneously set up a series of regional plans.
For countries with large populations, if may be better
to prepare plans at regional level and then collate the regional plans to form
a single national plan. This is the solution discussed here.
The information needed.
The information
needed described in Section 3 is necessary for each region in the
country. If regional plan proposals have been prepared, all the information
needed for the national plan has already been assembled.
In some cases,
regional plans for some regions may be available, but not for other regions. In
that case, regional plans for the « missing » regions should be
prepared.
The national plan.
The regional plans are grouped together (collated) to
form a national plan.
The National Plan therefore comprises a section where
basic statistics are assembled at national level, a very short section
indicating the priorities for the execution of individual and/or regional
plans, and, finally, the various regional plans themselves. The priorities for
the execution of the plans is a
political decision.
All individual (or regional) plans can be executed
contemporaneously since the project coordinators for them have already been
trained during the execution of the regional plan proposals. In principle, each
individual project follows its own route. It is quite possible to have
hundreds, if not thousands, of individual projects in execution at the same
time.
Where financial means are available to carry out all
of the individual plans at the same time, then politicians do not need to set
up a list of priorities. Where the means available insufficient for the
realisation of all of the projects contemporaneously, an order of priorities
will have to be decided.
A possible order of priorities for the execution of individual projects.
Taking the primary need to stop migration from rural
areas to urban slums and large towns in general, the following may form one
possible solution :
Poor rural areas in the poorest regions..
Poor rural areas in other regions.
Less-poor rural areas in the poorest regions.
Less poor areas in other regions.
Poor urban areas, secondary town in the poorest regions.
Poor urban areas in the secondary towns in other regions.
Poor urban areas in the largest towns in poor regions.
Poor urban areas in the largest towns in other areas.
Personnel needed
Once the regional plans have been prepared, the national plan can be drawn up by one
person with a single computer in the course of one month.
The nature of on-going monitoring and management of the National Plan
will depend on the political decisions taken.
For the on-going management of a national plan, a small office with 4
(possibly 5) people should be
enough :
-one person for the collection (receipt) of information supplied at
regional (and individual project) levels
-one person for the coordination of the information and the creation de
statistics.
-one person for the physical reproduction of the information
(brochures ; reports etc)
-one person for external relations (government ; press ; requests for information ;
communications with those responsible at regional level : etc).
- (optional) one person for on-going analysis of developments.
Financing the preparation of the national plan and its follow-up.
In principle, the regional systems cover the costs of the preparation of
a National Level project.
Most on-going maintenance costs fall under the local money systems.
However, some costs may need to be paid in formal money.
The contributions made by regional systems to the
national one will most probably be
decided on the des basis of the number of individual project areas in each
region. For example, a national level
project with 200 individual projects
split up amongst 4 regions, one region
with 90 individual projects, a second
one with 60 projects, a third one with
30 projects, and a fourth one with 20 projects, the contributions made
by the regions would be 45%, 30%, 15% et
10% respectively.
The government may wish to participate in the
management of the system. In principle,
however, efforts should be made to keep
the system of local economies independent of the formal economic (formal-money)
structures.
Profound economic consequences for the national government.
The introduction of local economic systems throughout the national
territory makes it easier for governments to manage their affairs. Above all,
after the period of tax-franchise conceded to each individual integrated
development project, the tax base the government can rely on will be vastly
extended, while at the same time, formal money outgo of the government will be
greatly reduced.
1. Opinion.
You are taking part in an international
congress on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. You explain to the participant show it is that
the preparation of a national integrated development plan is practically
without cost. On one page, give a summary of your presentation.
2. Opinion.
On one page make a list of the questions
your listeners put to you at the end of the presentation.
3. Opinion.
Set out on one page how you answered the
questions.
4. Research.
Set out on one page how the contributions made to the cost and follow-up of
national-level projects are covered at
individual project level through the regions. Do you think the system foreseen
is simple, just and efficient ?.
In the example of a national system with
200 projects given above, the national population would be about
10.000.000 Provision is made for the
management of the whole system by a qualified team of four (optionally five) people. Since the four
(or five) members of the team do qualified work, they may earn, say, 14 local
units per hour. Suppose each one works 1800 hours a year. That would mean that a team of 5 would in the
aggregate work for 9000 hours a year,
for a total of 126.000 local
money units. The cost of 126.000 local
money units would be divided amongst the
200 local money systems, producing a cost of 630 local money units per
local money system per year.
Each of the local systems has more or less 200 tank commissions. That
means that the 630 units for the individual project area must be divided by
200, producing 3,15 local money units for each tank commission per year.
Supposing each tank commission serves 150 adult members, 3,15 local money units
divided by 150 produces 0,021 local
money units per person per year. The systems are based on an average of 10 local money units for each hour´s
work.. That means that for each
individual person , the cost of the management of the national system would
represent 10 units multiplied by 0.021 hours of work. This is
1/476 of an hour, or 7.5 seconds
a year.
5. Opinion.
Give a one/page analysis of this
calculation..
◄ Seventh block : Section 4: Plan proposal for the integrated development
of your country.
◄ Seventh
block : Regional and national plans.
◄ Main index for the
Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev.)
"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,
“Poverty is created scarcity”
Wahu Kaara, point 8 of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th
annual NGO Conference, United Nations,
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