NGO "ANOTHER WAY" (STICHTING BAKENS VERZET), NETHERLANDS, SUSTAINABLE INTEGRATED SELF-FINANCING DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES

Look at group 1 of the budget. Column 5 shows a total contribution of 41.600 hours’ work. Column 6 shows a converted formal money value for that work.

1. Research.

Explain on one page to a donor why group 1 contains both formal money amounts and indications of hours of work. [ The issue is when local activities come within the local money system ; therefore when the local money systems become operative.]

2. Research.

Item 3040101 provides for a formal money payment by donors, and 4.000 hours of work for the preparation of furniture for the workshop buildings, but no converted amount for it in column 6. Items 4020201-4020205 provide for formal money payment by donors and 38.000 hours of work without any formal money equivalent in column 6. On one page, explain why. [ Use is made of local artisans, but the local money system is not yet in place.]

3. Research.

The (small) item 40403, on the contrary, provides for 400 hours of work, and an equivalent of Euro 150 i column 6, without any payment in formal money. On one page, explain why. [ It is assumed that maintenance activities will take place AFTER start-up of the local money systems.]

4. Research.

Each group 6 activity is about the creation of one of the planned structure. Each activity is split up into several sub-items.. The actions are mostly local. The purchase of external goods and services is covered by way of reference to group 7 of the budget. However, some formal money expenditure is provided for in section 6 activities. On one page explain the reason for this. Bear in mind, for example, that a locally built workshop hall may need some items produced outside the project area. Similarly, some planned structures in Groups 6 may make use of smaller «external » items purchased locally.

The hours of work linked to the management and maintenance of some structures may be considered very high. For example, item 60704 allows for 160.000 hours’ work,. This allows for just 800 hours for each of the 200 tank commission level operators. This is 400 hours a year, or +/- 8 hours a week, or +/- 1 hour a day. Each operators makes a round of the 40-50 households at least one a day, collecting a recipient with waste and replacing it with a clean recipient. It is a question of the management of organic waste (not that of toilets !) and the maintenance of the recipients.

5. Research.

Taking into account that each project sets up some 200 hygiene education groups, 200 multi-member tank commissions, 35-45 well commissions ; three-tiered structures of the ’administration of the local money and micro-credit systems etc. On one page justify to donors the number of working hours allowed for at least three of the main items in section 6 of the budget.

The budget provides only for local work carried out during the first period of 24 months, which is the period allowed for the «execution » or creation of the project structures. During the course of each project, each structure, once it is created and in operation, is passed over to the Permanent Cooperative for the ongoing management of the Project Structures (See part 06. The permanent cooperative for the management of the structures of the section on the Division of tasks in the third block the solutions to the problems.) The vision concerning the period between the creation of a structure and the formal expiry of project execution after 24 months is that of a period of training.