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

 

Edition 03: 10 November, 2010

 

 

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.

 

Sect. 3 : Costs and benefits analysis. [17 hours ]

 

01. Introduction. (02 hours)

02. The investments made.(02 hours)

03. Detailed results. (02 hours)

04. Efficiency and effectiveness.  (02 hours)

05. Management costs.(02 hours)

06. Costs and benefits analysis  : introduction. (02 hours)

07. Costs and benefits analysis : details. (02 hours)

08. Kyoto Treaty : analysis possibilities finance. (Additional)

 

Section 3 report:  (03 hours).

 


 

Sect. 3 : Costs and benefits analysis. [17 hours ]

 

02. The investments made. (At least 2 hours)

 

The total investments made in a typical integrated development project under the Model amount to € 5.000.000 as indicated in  section  07.10 The budegt of the Model.

 

There are three types of investment :

 

a) Investments in structures in the form of inventory goods, including he costs for their installation.

b) Investments in structures, such as the social structures (tank commissions, well commissions etc) and financial structures  (local money and micro-credits structures) with or without inventory goods.

c) Investments covering administrative costs.

 

Working from 07.10 The budget:

 

1. Research.

 

Make a list of point a)  investments structure by structure and calculate their total value all together.

Make a list of point b) investments structure by structure and calculate their total value all together.

Make a list of point c) investments and calculate their total all together.

 

The amount of the three groups together should come to € 5.000.000.

 

Add the  amounts for groups  a) and b),that is, the total of (a + b).

 

Calculate the percentage relationship between each of the  individual structures in lists  a) and b) with the total (a+b).

 

The sum of the percentages must be 100%..

 

The value of investments in  list c) have to be proportionally distributed amongst the investments for the individual structures in lists  a) and b).

 

The sum of the attributions made must be 100%  of the total value of c).

 

2. Opinion.

 

Make a short one-page commentary of the results of your work under exercise 1..

 

Take another look at the content of part 01. Introduction of this section 3.

 

The results of your work are quite different from the results which will be described later on in part  07. Costs and benefits analysis  : details of this section 3.  You can take a preview of part  07. Costs and benefits analysis  : details.  One of the reasons for this is that for some social structures it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to define the benefits in specific monetary terms in the sense of traditional costs and benefits analyses. Another reason is the simplification requirement of the costs and benefits analysis due to the «elimination » of some of the low-value investments.

 

The result of this «simplification »  is that in the costs and benefits analysis the list of common costs is given as:

 

Details of  the common costs

 

 

 

Human resources items 101010-1030202

216.930

 

Travelling items 20101-20201

40.000

 

Organisational material  items 30101-3040304

169.200

 

Office costs items 400101-40404

169.200

 

Other service costs items 50101-50902

30.950

 

Social structures items 60302-60304

299.500

 

Local money system items 60401-60409

244.000

 

Micro-credit system items 60501-60506

113.000

 

Gypsum production units items 60601-60606

127.500

 

Recycling structures items 60701-60706

240.000

 

Other structures items 61101-62401

92.900

 

Moulds for gypsum products items 70201-70202

124.000

 

Purchase equipments other structures items 70210-70223

509.500

 

Consultant/transport items 70301-70306

364.695

 

Unforeseen section 9 of the budget

118.125

 

Administrative costs section 11 of the budget

53.050

 

Total common costs

 

2.912.550

 

In the costs and benefits analysis the amount of  € 2.912.350 is attributed as follows:

 

Water supply : 84,34%

Hygiene education : 8,70%

Improved stoves and smoke elimination: 4,23%

Eco-sanitation structures and mills : 2,73%

 

The result is that the water supply sector is «overloaded» with common costs to the benefit of other sectors.

 



 Eighth block :  Section 3 : Costs and benefits analysis. 

 Eighth block :  Economic aspects.


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 List of references.

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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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