Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener 50,
1771 ED Wieringerwerf,
The Netherlands.
Tel:
0031-227-604128
Homepage:
http://www.flowman.nl
E-mail: (nameatendofline)@xs4all.nl : bakensverzet
Incorporating
innovative social, financial, economic, local administrative and productive
structures, numerous renewable energy applications, with an important role for
women in poverty alleviation in rural and poor urban environments.
"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
Edition 11: 27
September 2006
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: On-going maintenance structures.
All
installation and on-going maintenance operations on project structures will be
carried out by local people within the framework of the local money systems set
up. The formal money costs of some spare parts are covered out of the
Cooperative Local Development Fund.
Inhabitants
interested in installation and maintenance are trained during the Moraisian
workshops carried out during the first 12 months of project execution. They are
expected to form one or more installation and maintenance cooperatives. The
people themselves will decide how the cooperatives, will operate. Organisation
may be at project level, well commission level, or tank commission level.
Specialisation may take place according to the type of service involved.
Since
most products for water storage and harvesting, sanitation, cooking and
briquette-making are locally made, installation and operation and maintenance
groups may be run by the productive facilities involved.
One
or more separate installation and maintenance groups will be formed for the
drinking water supply system. Specific training
in the installation and maintenance of pumps and photovoltaic equipment
will usually be supervised by the general consultant to the project
coordinator. The project ensures that initial stocks of spare parts for pumps
and solar equipment are purchased and made available to the maintenance
cooperatives. These stocks are kept and maintained by the project management
our of the Cooperative Local Development Fund. The formal money costs of all
spare parts are included in the monthly contributions paid by the families into
the Cooperative Local Development Fund. The financial system is inherently
sustainable, as only a small part of the funds paid into the Cooperative Local
Development Fund are needed for maintenance operations. Most maintenance costs
are for travelling and labour. These are paid by the local inhabitants in under
the local money systems.
Local
money maintenance costs of structures at project level are distributed amongst
all of the inhabitants in the project area.
Local
money maintenance costs of structures at well commission level are distributed
amongst all of the inhabitants in the well commission area.
Local
money maintenance costs of structures at tank commission level are distributed
amongst all of the inhabitants in the tank commission area.
Expected
annual formal money expenditure for on-going maintenance.
Expected annual
formal money income.
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