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                                                                                    01. E-course : Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip. Int.Dev.)

 

Edition 01: 09 December, 2009

 

 

Tekstvak:         Quarter 3.

 

 

 

 

Tekstvak: SECTION C : THE MODEL.

 

 

 

 

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.

 


 

Block 8 : Economic aspects.

 

                            [Study points 03 out of 18]

[Minimum study time: 85 hours out of 504]

 

The study points are awarded upon passing the consolidated exam  for  Section C : The Model.

 


 

Block 8 : Economic aspects.

 

Section 1 : Project costs.[40 hours]

 

01.  General introduction. (02 hours)

02. General sketch of the financial structures.(02 hours)

03. Short budget analysis. (02 hours)

04. Budget organisation. (02 hours)

05. Description of the local contributions. (02 hours)

06. Method for calculating local contributions. (02 hours)

07. Relationship between local money and formal money.(02 hours)

08. The budget (02  hours)

09. The budget in a form requested by donors/financing parties. (02 hours )

10. Annual expenses (budgets per year). (02 hours )

11. Quarterly budgets. (02 hours )

12. Excel spreadsheets for the preparation of the budget.(02 hours )

13. The sustainability of the system.(02 hours )

14. Tenders. (02 hours )

15. The bank structures with limitations imposed on the project coordinator.(02 hours )

16. Auditing structures. (02 hours)

17. Protection of donors and financing parties.(02 hours )

 

Section 1 report :  (06 hours) .

 

 


 

Section 1 : Project costs.[40 hours]

 

11. Quarterly budgets. (02 hours )

 

Graphic presentations of  the activities typical of each quarter are to be found in 07.11 Quarterly expenditure of the Model. The information for the graphs can be found in  07.13 The Excel spreadsheets for the preparation of the budget (technical document).

 

The formation of each of  the structures always follows its own rhythm, and varies from project to project, from well commission to well commission and from tank commission to tank commission. The graphs showing expected quarterly expenditure should however give a good vision of the progress made in project execution.

 

Warning !  The information in the graphs reflects formal money expenditure. It does mot necessarily reflect the amount of work being carried out.  For instance, the formation of the local money system has a budgeted amount of just € 37.500 , but involves some 100.000 hours of work by the populations.

 

The Excel file with the total expenditure per quarter  makes it possible to calculate the total of all quarterly activities. Working from this file, graphs can be made showing quarterly expenditure for each individual budget item.

QAURTERLY ACTIVITIES

Activities first quarter.
Activities second quarter.
Activities third quarter.
Activities fourth quarter.
Activities fifth quarter.
Activities sixth quarter.
Activities seventh quarter.
Activities eighth quarter.

 

1. Research.

 

Take each of the quarterly graphs in turn  and in one paragraph for each graph (eight  paragraphs together ) describe their main features. Be concise. Your work should not exceed two pages, including a very short introduction and your conclusion.

Quarterly graphs for the different groups of items can be developed working from the Excel file for the budget .
Division into the main groups of items is the most useful one for an analysis of the activities, especially for the creations of the structures in group 6 of the budget. It provides a clear indication of the periods when the structures are created, and of their subsequent operation and management.
ACTIVITIES PER GROUP AND PER QUARTER.

Personnel, items 1010101-20201.
Equipment, items 30101-3040104.
Vehicles, project offices, items 40101-40404.
Formalities, items 5010-50901.

Health clubs, items 60101-60105.
School hygiene courses, items 60201-60203.
Social structures, items 60301-60304.
Local money systems, items 60401-60409.
Micro-credit structures, items 60501-60505.
Units for the production of articles made from gypsum composites, items 60601-60606.
Waste recycling, items 60701-60706.
Elimination smog, items 60801-60806.
Drinking water and sanitation, items 60901-60923.
Eco-sanitation structures, items 61001-61006.
Other structures, items 61101-62301.
Supply contracts, items 70201-70223.
Consultants, items 70301-70306.

 

2. Research.

 

Take each of the quarterly graphs in turn  and in one paragraph for each graph (eight  paragraphs

together ) describe their main features. Be concise. Your work should not exceed three pages, including a very short introduction and your conclusion.

 



 Eighth block :  Economic aspects. 

 Eighth block :  Project costs.


Main index  for the Diploma in Integrated  Development  (Dip. Int. Dev.)

 List of key words.

 List of references.

  Course chart.

 Technical aspects.


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"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, London 1958, page 228.

 

“Poverty is created scarcity”

Wahu Kaara, point 8 of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th annual NGO Conference, United Nations, New York 7th September 2005.

 


 

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