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

Article 16 : The General Management of the Association is responsible for the supervision of the day to day running of the project structures. It is the organ responsible for the execution of the decisions of the Central Committee. It drafts the rules and the budget of the Association and submits them to the Central Committee for approval.

It submits proposals for new policy and proposals for reaching the goals of the Association and proposals for the exclusion of members to the Central Committee.

It submits the annual programme of activities of the Association to the Central Committee for approval.

It records the status of inventories, accounts, and budget documents submitted to the Central Committee.

It opens and operates all bank accounts including current accounts in the name of the Association on behalf of the Central Committee.

It answers to the Central Committee and informs the Audit Commission of its activities, payments and receipts.

Elected in principle each year by the Central Committee, the General Management comprises

-A general manager who is responsible for the good day to day running of the Association. He is responsible for taking all measures necessary for the life and operation of the Association according to the statutes of the Association and to the instructions received from the Central Committee. He is chosen once a year and his nomination is renewable indefinitely.

-A general secretary who is responsible for the archives of the Association. He is responsible for correspondence and administrative affairs.

-A treasurer is responsible for the material and financial patrimony of the Association. He collects the funds of the Association and is responsible for their management.. He co-signs payments authorisations together with the General Manager. He submits a financial reports each year and a financial budget at the close of his period of office to the Audit Commission, to the central Committee, and to other members of the personnel indicated by the General Manager, by the Audit Commission, or by the Central Committee .

Article 17 : The members of the General Management are paid under the local money system set up by the project. They are paid in the name of the Central Committee, which is in turn reimbursed by way of equal distribution of the costs amongst the Well Commissions.

Formal Money costs of the General Management are at the charge of the Central Committee. They are covered by a part of the monthly contributions paid by the members into the Cooperative Local Development Fund.

Article 18 : The General Management receives at its own request, in principle but not necessarily without charge assistance in the form of technical advice from the Project Coordinator and his team during the first two executive years of project execution. From the third year of project management up to and including the tenth year, in principle but not necessarily free of charge, assistance and technical advice from the Project Coordinator.”

Where the Central Committee of a project appoints a General Management, the general management team should be «light » and efficient. It would act as the«Government » for the management of the project structures. The Central Committee retains its role as project « Parliament ». The concept is therefore the same as the one used during project execution for the creation of the project structures, where the Project Coordinator and his team form the «project government » and the board of the NGO responsible for project execution the role of «Parliament ».

1. Opinion.

You are responsible for the formation of a general management team for the structures of an integrated development project. Taking the content of this course into account, prepare a one-page organigram of the general management structure that you would submit to the Central Committee.

Article 44 of the statutes of the Cooperative for the on-going management of the project structures of the Model reads:

«Article 44 : All withdrawals of funds from bank accounts require the signatures of the treasurer and the General Manager. Withdrawals equal to or higher than [Euro 5.000] require the extra signature of the Chairperson of the Central Committee. Withdrawals equal to or higher than [Euro 15.000] are subject to a specific authorisation by the Central Committee.”

2. Opinion.

This drawing showing the bank structures refers to project execution.. On one page, make a bank structures chart for project management.

3. Opinion.

This drawing showing the financial structures refers to project execution. On one page, make a financial structures chart for project management.

Structures for the on-going management of integrated development project can be either «unitary » or specialised.

Refer to the drawing showing the lines for the management of individual projects in section 1 of the anthopological analysis of the three project levels of the third block solutions to the problems. A single three-tiered vertical management system can be chosen for all of the structures together. Alternatively, a three-tiered vertical management system for each of the structures may be preferred. Or a sort of combination of the two. For example, a local money system structure may be operated in parallel to the management structures for the social structures.

Look, for example, at the diagram in drawing showing the local money structures, where a director «replaces » the central committee.

4. Opinion.

Give a one-page opinion on the advantages and disadvantages of unitary and specialised structures. What is your conclusion ?

Look at the part of the course which deals with relationships amongst projects at regional level in the seventh block on national and regional planning.

You are in charge of local money transactions at tank commission level. You have given a description of how the export and import of goods and services within the local money system of your project area takes place. You have been nominated director of the local money structures at project level. You have a meeting with two adjacent project areas to set up an export-import system amongst the three project areas.

5. Opinion.

On one page write a simple form of agreement. You do not need to worry about quantities or goods and services or local money amounts. The purpose of the exercise is to develop a template where the quantities and amounts can be filled in from time to time.

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◄ Eighth block : Section 2: Management of the structures.

◄ Eighth block : Economic aspects.

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

◄ List of key words.

◄ List of references.

◄ Course chart.

◄ Technical aspects.

◄ Courses available.

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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, 58^th annual NGO Conference, United Nations, New York 7^th September 2005.

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