NGO Another Way (Stichting
Bakens Verzet), 1018 AM
SELF-FINANCING, ECOLOGICAL,
SUSTAINABLE, LOCAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS FOR THE WORLD’S POOR
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Edition 04 :
25 March, 2011.
Edition 05 : 06 October, 2011.
02. Studies
and theses for the title : Master in Integrated Development (M. Int. Dev.)
Proposal for Master’s theses
in Integrated Development.
The Model promoted
by NGO Stichting Bakens Verzet (“Another Way”) presents an alternative economic
system. It is designed to contribute to the replacement of the
current debt-based monetary system. Young people with energy and enthusiasm
without vested interest in the presently dominating self-destructing structures are
needed to apply it.
Stichting Bakens
Verzet works exclusively in the public interest and without a
budget. Scholarships must therefore be arranged through the student’s
University.
The proposal
is intended to cover Master's theses. It suitable for students from many study
areas, including Administration, Agronomy, Economics, Education,
Engineering, Environment, Finance, Law, Local Development, Political Sciences,
Sociology, Water and Sanitation, and Women’s Rights. A special appeal is made to women students,
as Women’s Rights and Women’s Participation play a leading role in the
execution of projects drafted under the terms of the Model.
For post-masters work
refer to the e-learning course for the Diploma
in Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev.). Work for the
Master’s thesis follows the main lines of the Diploma Course. The main
difference is that the written work provided for the Diploma course is replaced
by new research and referencing on specific aspects of the material studied.
By arrangement with
the student’s University, Sections D, E, and F can be replaced by original
research on one of the many integrated-development topics where research work
still needs to be done. For example, field work in the student’s country on the
real economics there : the relationship between monetised and non-monetised
productive and non-productive activities there. Another example might be
detailed insights into the real accumulation of interest content in the price
of a chosen industrial product. The results of the research work will further
enrich the material already available on integrated development for the world’s
poor.
1.
Possible Project Title
"Analysis of a
Model for self-financing ecological, sustainable, local integrated development
projects and its adaptation to real conditions in the chosen country (or
District or Region in the chosen country), including proposals for a national
(or regional) integrated development plan and for the preparation of
a fully detailed pilot project documentation."
2. Background
Stichting Bakens
Verzet promotes an innovative Model for self-financing, ecological,
sustainable, local integrated development projects for the world's poor. The
Model provides for the creation of social, financial, productive and
service structures in project areas. The structures are set up step by
step in a critical order of sequence. Together they form a powerful,
cooperative, interest-free, inflation-free local economic environment
where individual initiative and genuine competition are free to flourish. The
work is in the public domain. It can be accessed at www.integrateddevelopment.org.
While the Model has not yet been "discovered" by
Universities for wider inclusion in their courses, the website is ranked
by search engines (including Google NL, Bong NL, Yahoo NL, Altavista etc) as
one of the world's leading resources on a wide range of development-related
topics.
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. Plans involving populations over 10.000.000 cost about 2.5
eurocents ( € 0.025) per person. Smaller
plans involving up to 1.000.000 inhabitants may cost up to 15 eurocents ( €
0.15) per person, depending on population spread and the size of the project areas.
National and
regional plans involve the drafting of individual project documentations under
the Model for each area with about 50.000 inhabitants in the country or region.
Their preparation has practical advantages. Authors of the individual project
documentations receive direct, personal, hands-on training on the application
of the principles behind the Model, so that they qualify to act as coordinators
for the projects they have drafted. Another advantage is that the financiers of
the regional or national plans, the costs of which vary from about €
100.000 to € 300.000 depending on the populations, get to
know the local grass-roots NGOs involved. Successful preparation of the
national or regional plan should make it easier for the same financiers to contribute
to the cost of individual pilot projects in the poorest areas covered by the
plan.
The execution of
individual projects for project areas with 50.000 inhabitants costs about Euro
100 per person, or Euro 5.000.000 per project. Of this, 25% is contributed by
local populations who perform most of project operations under a local money
system set up in an early phase of project execution. The initial formal-money
requirement is therefore about Euro 75 per person or Euro 3.750.000 per
project. While it is obviously preferable for this money to be made available
to the local populations by way of grant, funds can also be supplied under an
interest-free ten-year loan. Combinations of grant and soft-loans are also
possible.
While the Model was
conceived for the benefit of the world's poorest rural and urban areas,
the concepts are equally applicable to rural and urban areas in emerging and
industrialised countries, including by way of example the Brightmoor
district of Detroit and the Calton area of
3. Affinity of the
proposed research project with the student’s studies.
The Model provides
an innovative holistic approach to development. It covers environmental
and resource management issues. It provides for the creation of advanced
social, financial, productive and service structures in project areas. It
involves interplay amongst stakeholders, especially the beneficiary people
themselves who participate directly in project definition, execution,
operation and maintenance. The people own all project structures and, were
necessary, they can pay for them. Social structures created guarantee a
leading role for women at all levels in all
activities.
The Model
provides creative solutions to complex environmental problems. All
project structures are individually and collectively 100% ecological and
permanently sustainable. They make extensive, if not exclusive, use of locally
produced alternative energies and advanced waste recycling practices. They
guarantee and promote bio-diversity in project areas and the
conservation and extension of all natural resources there. They provide
for food security for all in each project area.
Each individual
project under the Model creates a powerful local economy system in its
project area. The local systems cooperate with others first on a
district or regional level, then on a national level to form a patchwork quilt
of powerful local economy systems which in turn form regional and
national systems. These not only meet all Millennium goals for the chosen
country at local, regional and national levels. They inherently provide
cost-effective ways at each level to adapt to climate change, provide local
energy for local consumption, advanced water management and spatial
planning.
How people in
project areas decide to use the project structures is up to their individual
initiative and imagination. Amongst more common productive activities, some
people or cooperative groups may wish to set up sports clubs, theatre groups,
restaurants, guest houses, organise walking trips etc. Once the
people are able to operate under local money systems and enjoy the advantage of
interest-free, cost-free cooperative micro-finance, their options are almost
unlimited. Local production for local use of solar energy technologies is
one possible area.
Application of the
Model in the chosen country would enhance the country’s national and leadership
status throughout the world.
4. Advantages for
the student.
The student will
perfect his knowledge of the concepts behind the Model, then apply
them to conditions in a chosen country and project area. He/she will be
expected first to propagate the concepts of the Model by organising
and executing a regional plan(s), the extent of which will be finalised in
an early part of the research period. He/she will most
probably need 8-12 weeks for the execution of a regional plan proposal
in a country of his choice and up to 6 months for a national level
plan. Each student writing individual projects included in the regional (or national) plan will in turn
automatically get first-hand knowledge of the Model and, with a minimum of
support, be able to act as project coordinator for the individual project
he/she has written.
The individual
project documentation written as part of the Research Project will form a Model
for the project documentations which will together form the executive
part of the Regional (or National) Plan. The Regional (or National) Plan will
form a Model for other regions in the chosen country. In any case Regional
Plans together will form a National Integrated Development Plan for the country
concerned.
The
student will be in a position to first execute his Regional (or
National) Plan proposal, then act as project coordinator for the execution of
the individual project the subject of his Research Project. After that he
will be in a position to lead local development initiatives by
coordinating regional level, then National level, plans.
(The chosen
country) is a country suffering from seriously unbalanced re-distribution
of wealth. It is at number [number] on the UNDP Human Development
indices (edition 2007-2008). It may be in a position to organise finance
for local development under the Model, the total formal money cost of which
would not be greater than Euro 75 million for each 1.000.000
people. Applied on a wide scale in the country concerned, those
costs could be substantially reduced.
4. Advantages for
Stichting Bakens Verzet.
The Research
Project brings three main advantages to Stichting Bakens Verzet. The first is
that it should provide a precedent for cooperation with
The Project
Research will be subject to publication on website www.integrateddevelopment.org and
thereby automatically licensed for world-wide use under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non-commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Licence.
5. Some initial ideas for
the research project (for discussion).
The following plan allows for
502 hours' (three months' full time) work
A
ANALYSIS -PRELIMINARY ASPECTS [08 hours]
[08 hours] Preliminary
aspects
of which
[02
hours basic organisation]
[06
hours initial human contact and general introduction to research
project]
B) DEVELOPMENT
ISSUES [112 hours]
[57
hours]. First block: Poverty and quality of life,
being:
[26.5 hours ] Section
1. Analysis : causes of poverty.
of which
[06.5
hours analysis Model material ]
[14 hours further research and
referencing]
[06 hours report]
and
[26.5 hours ] Section
2. Services at the basis of a good quality of life.
of which
[06.5
hours analysis Model material]
[14 hours further research and
referencing]
[06
hours : report]
and
[4 hours] Section 3 :
Consolidated report first block
[ 04 hours : consolidated report.]
[49
hours ] Second block: Objectives
being
[22 hours ] Section 1 :
Analysis of objectives (related to Millennium goals).
of which
[06 hours analysis of Model material]
[10 hours further research and
referencing]
[06 hours : report]
and
[23 hours ] Section 2 : Relate
objectives to the services listed in section 2 of block 1.
[ It should be found that the
Millennium Goals, which are extremely confused, in reality come back to
the supply of a certain number of basic services listed in section 2 of the
first block.]
of which
[06 hours :
analysis of Model material]
[11 hours further research and
referencing]
[06 hours : report]
and
[04 hours] Section 3 :
Consolidated report second block
[ 04 hours : consolidated report.]
[6
hours ] Third block: Consolidated report section A : Development issues
[
06 hours : consolidated report section A.]
C) SOLUTIONS
TO THE PROBLEMS [194 hours]
[36
hours ] Fourth block :Anthropological analysis and division of responsibility.
being
[16 hours] Section 1. Anthropological
analysis at three levels.
of which
[04
hours : analysis of Model material]
[08 hours : further research and
referencing]
[04 hours report]
and
[16 hours] Section
2. Division of responsibility amongst the three structural
levels.
of which
[04 :
hours analysis of Model material]
[08 : further research and
referencing]
[04
: hours report]
and
[04 hours] Section 3 :
Consolidated report second block
[ 04 hours : consolidated report fourth block.]
[96
hours : Fifth block]: Creation of project structures.
being
[16 hours ] Section 1 :
Justification of the order of sequence for the creation of project
structures.
of which
[04
hours :analysis of Model material]
[08 hours : further research and referencing]
[04 hours : report section 1]
and
[16 hours ] Section 2 : The
social structures.
of which
[04
hours : analysis of Model material]
[08 hours : further research and
referencing]
[04 hours : report section 2]
and
[24 hours ] Section 3 : The
financial structures .
of which
[06
hours : analysis of Model material]
[14 hours : further research and
referencing]
[04 hours : report section 3]
and
[12 hours ] Section 4 :
The productive structures.
of which
[02 hours : analysis of Model material]
[06 hours : further research and
referencing]
[04 hours : report section 4]
and
[24 hours ] Section 5 : The
service structures.
of which
[05
hours : analysis Model material]
[15 hours : further research and
referencing]
[04
hours :report section 5]
and
[04 hours] Section 6 :
Consolidated report fifth block
[ 04 hours : consolidated report fifth block.]
[54
hours ] Sixth block : How the structures from the fourth block solve specific
problems.
being
[6 hours ] Section 1 : Gender
of which
[00.5 hours : analysis Model material]
[03.5 hours : further research and
referencing]
[02 hours : report section 1]
and
[6 hours ] Section 2 :
Capacity building
of which
[00.5
hours : analysis Model material]
[03 5 hours : further research and
referencing]
[02 hours : report section 2]
and
[6 hours ] Section 3
: Credit crisis.
of which
[00.5
hours : analysis Model material]
[03 5 hours : further research and
referencing]
[02 hours : report section 3]
and
[6 hours ] Section 4
: Food crisis.
of which
[00.5
hours : analysis Model material]
[03 5 hours : further research and
referencing]
[02 hours : report section 4]
and
[6 hours ] Section 5 :
Sustainability.
of which
[00.5
hours : analysis Model material]
[03 5 hours : further research and
referencing]
[02 hours : report section 5]
and
[6 hours ] Section 6 :
Corruption
of which
[00.5
hours : analysis Model material]
[03 5 hours : further research and
referencing]
[02 hours : report section 6]
and
[6 hours ] Section 7
: Water and sanitation.
of which
[00.5
hours : analysis Model material]
[03 5 hours : further research and
referencing]
[02 hours : report section 7]
and
[6 hours ] Section 8
: Millennium goals
of which
[00.5
hours : analysis Model material]
[03 5 hours : further research and
referencing]
[02 hours : report section 8]
and
[06 hours] Section 9 :
Political implications
of which
[00.5
hours : analysis Model material]
[03 5 hours : further research and referencing]
[02 hours : report section 9]
[08
hours ] Seventh block: Consolidated report section B : Solutions to the
problems.
being
[
08 hours : consolidated report section B.]
Seventh block: Regional and national
plans.
Section 1: Extensions to regional and national plans.
Section 2:
Relations amongst individual projects.
Eighth block: Economic aspects.
Section 2 : On-going management of structures.
Section 3 : Costs and benefits analyses.
Section 4:
Achievement of the Millennium Goals.
Section 5 : Kyoto Treaty : Analysis of possibilities for finance. (Supplementary).
D)
THE STUDENT'S INDIVIDUAL PROJECT [160 hours ]
[160 hours] Eighth block : The
Project document
[08 hours] Section 1 : General
information
This section typically
contains information which is added "along the way" Files
for future use need to be created. Files are filled in wherever possible.
The maps section should be completed. Hand-drawn indicative maps are acceptable
provided they are to scale.
[16 hours]
Section 2 : Geographic information
General information
on country and region of the project area should be minimal (not more than
2 pages each). General geographic information on the project area should
be more detailed but should not overlap with material in section 3. The
list of villages should be complete and contain the required details. Most
of the work will be dedicated to preparing that list.
[20 hours]
Section 3 : Present situation in the project area.
This information
should fall within the students’ personal experience. Additional information
should be supplied through the "unqualified" female line. That is
with a description of the ordinary day to day living experience of
ordinary women, especially the poor. Office-desk information from members
of male elites is unlikely to produce an accurate picture of reality on the
ground.
[16 hours]
Section 4 : Project goals and expected results.
All files except
for 04.10 should be completed, appropriately adapted to conditions in the chosen project
area. File 04.10 should be prepared, and if possible, contain proposals
Account will need
to be taken of indigenous peoples, if there are any in the project area.
[44 hours]
Section 5 : Project goals and expected results .
being
[16 hours]
Subsection 5-1 . Files 5-01 - 5.09.
Some files are
quite large, but may not require large-scale adaptation. The statutes in
subsection 05-07 and 05.08 need to be adapted to the legal requirements of the
country concerned.
and
[16 hours] Subsection
5-2 . Files 5-11 and 5-17. Initial environmental analysis and environmental
impact reports.
National legal
requirements need analysis. Laws and regulations are attached to the project
documents. The project is local . With one possible exception, small
scale gypsum quarries for local use, the project makes no drain on
natural resources. It conserves them.
and
[12 hours]
Subsection 5-3 . Files 5-12 to 5-16 and 5-21 to 5-69. Structures and summary of
improvements to quality of life.
Adaptation of texts as
required.
[16 hours] Section 6 :
Phases of project execution.
Adaptation of texts as
required.
[32 hours] Section 7 :
Financial justification.
Time is needed to adapt Excel
spreadsheets and budget to the local conditions.
[04 hours] Section 8 :
Files on specific aspects.
Minor adaptations as required.
[04 hours] Section 9 :
Attachments.
Modifications to the list of
material forming part of the project application.
E)
THE REGIONAL PROJECT [14 hours ]
[14 hours] 9th Block -
District/Regional Project
[02 hours] Section 1 :
Selection regional area.
[10 hours] Section 2 :
Collation data.
[02 hours] Section 3 :
Drafting proposal.
F) FINAL
PROJECT REPORT [14 hours ]
[14 hours] 10th Block -
Final report.
[10 hours] Section 1 :
Collation material.
[04 hours] Section 2 :
Final formatting.
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