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T.E.(Terry) Manning,

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KIOGORO  INTEGRATED SELF-FINANCING RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

 

KIOGORO DIVISION IN KISII CENTRAL DISTRICT IN THE REPUBLIC OF  KENYA

INCORPORATING LETS AND COMMUNITY BANKING

 

 

(partnership applications invited)

 

and

NGO STICHTING BAKENS VERZET, WIERINGERWERF, NETHERLANDS


"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.


 (Edition 02 : 10th July, 2008)


05.00 THE ORDER OF SEQUENCE OF PROJECT ACTIVTTIES

 

05.06 Summary of the project structures and 05.61 Institutional developments

 

This project constitutes a formal working plan for the integrated sustainable ecological development of the Kiogoro area in the Kisii Central District, Nyanza Province, Kenya. Innovations involve in particular the package of  financial instruments applied and the specific sequence of actions to set up the structures necessary for project execution. Local capacities are fully exploited and advanced low-cost technologies adopted for local productivity development purposes. The project embraces many sectors of activity, including:

 

Social structures.

-          The creation of 297 self-administered sustainable Health Clubs, typically serving 20-25 extended family groups, designed to create a platform guaranteeing full participation of women in the project.

-          The creation of  297 self-administered sustainable local development groups typically representing the same 20-25 extended family groups (200-300 persons). In this project they are referred to as tank commissions.

-          The creation of  66 self-administered sustainable intermediate level development groups typically representing the 150-200 extended family groups (about 2000 persons). In this project they are referred to as well commissions.

-          The creation of  a self-administered sustainable project-level development management typically representing the 8000 extended family groups (about 80000 persons).

-          The creation of a self-administered sustainable three-tiered social security structure for the protection of the elderly, the sick and the handicapped in the project area, for both their formal money and their local money needs.

 

Financial structures.

-          The creation of self-administered sustainable continuously recycling, interest-free, inflation-free cooperative local money structures in the project area.

-          The creation of self-administered sustainable continuously recycling, interest-free, cooperative micro-credit structures for productivity increase in the project area.

 

Service structures.

-          The creation of self-administered sustainable distributed solar powered drinking water system with reserve backup, together with rainwater harvesting structures for extra water capacity.

-          The installation of complete locally built composting toilet (sanitation) structures in every extended family home in the project area. In this project the installation of 8000 systems in homes is foreseen together with 63 of multiple systems in schools, clinics, and public places.

-           The creation of a complete, fully sustainable,  three-tiered structure for the local recycling of organic and non-organic wastes.

-          The construction of 297 rooms equipped with 297photovoltaic lighting structures for study purposes, and 63 photovoltaic lighting structures  in the schools and clinics in the project area.

-          The use of  24000 locally built high efficiency cooking stoves in all homes in the project area for the elimination of smoke hazards to health especially of women and children and the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in the project area.

-       66 bicycle ambulances

-       66 medicine distribution points

-       66 units for the storage of  food for local consumption

-       Improvements to educational structures

-       Improvements to health structures

 

 Productive structures.

 

-          Three low-cost labour-intensive fully ecological units for the production of items made for the project and for general purposes from gypsum composites.

-          Sixty-six units for the sustainable production of mini-briquettes for locally produced high efficiency stoves.

-       The creation of a complete, fully sustainable,  three-tiered operative system for the local recycling of organic and non-organic wastes.

-          594 sustainable initiatives for the local production of bio-mass for mini-briquettes for high-efficiency cooking stoves.

-          Two local cooperatives for the on-going sustainable installation and  maintenance of all project structures.

-       Local radio station

-       Creation of a seed bank

-          The creation of typically 6000  sustainable productive jobs, being jobs for 10% of the adult population in the project area.


FROM SECTION 5.00 : THE ORDER OF SEQUENCE OF PROJECT ACTIVITIES

 

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05.07 Statutes of the NGO Cooperative New Horizons for Kiogoro for the on-going management of the project structures.

 

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05.05 Description of the action for funding purposes.

 


 

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05.62 Health aspects.

 

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05.51 Domestic lighting systems.

 


 

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