Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener 50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The Netherlands.
Tel:
0031-227-604128
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and
"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,
“Poverty is created scarcity”
Wahu Kaara, point 8 of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th
annual NGO Conference, United Nations,
New Horizons for Kiogoro: : Sustainable integrated development in the
Kiogoro area, Kisii Central District,
Incorporating hygiene education, drinking water supply and sanitation
through the formation of local self-managed social, financial and productive
structures.
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Total eligible cost of the action : EUR 8.000.000.
Contribution requested from (name of funding agency or donor): EUR 6.000.000
% of the total eligible cost of the action requested: 75 %
Duration of the action: 24 months.
Global objectives:
Sustainable integrated
development through the formation of innovative social, financial and
productive structures and services for the benefit of all of the inhabitants in
the project area, including but not limited to
the provision of hygiene education, drinking water and sanitation
facilities.
Specific objectives:
An
entire range of self-managed social, financial, and productive structures and
services, including but not limited to 297 Health Clubs and on-going hygiene
education courses in the schools in the project area, 297 local social
structures, 66 intermediate social structures and one central committee and
management unit for the supply of distributed clean drinking water; 8000
eco-sanitation systems installed in users’ homes; 297 study rooms with
photovoltaic lighting for study purposes; 24000 improved cooking stoves
for the elimination of smoke hazards in and around homes and structures for the
production of mini-briquettes to fuel them; waste recycling structures;
cooperative local money and formal money financial structures the project
area, etc. etc
Partners:
The applicant NGO Project for Kiogoro is a partnership
of the following members:
.(List of members)
Target groups:
The entire population in the
project area, being about 80.000.
Final beneficiaries:
The entire population in the
project area, being about 80.000. Success of this pilot project in
Planned results include but
are not limited to:
297
tank commissions with solar powered distributed drinking water systems; 66 well
commissions with back-up drinking water installations and washing places; 1
local money LETS structure; 1 interest-free micro-credit structure for
productivity increase (on an average
Euro 2500 per family over ten years); 297 Health Clubs for hygiene
education and hygiene education courses in the schools in the project area;
8000 eco-sanitation systems installed in users’ extended family homes (of which
1000 delivered by the close of the 24 months’ executive period); 297 photovoltaic
lighting systems for study purposes; 1 complete system for waste recycling; 1
complete system for the manufacture and installation of 24000 improved cooking
stoves in users’ homes (elimination of smoke hazards) and for the manufacture
of mini-briquettes for them; elimination of the consumption of wood for
cooking; 8000 systems for (non potable) rain-water harvesting for personal uses
(the first systems to be delivered before the close of the 24 months’ executive
period) ; creation of about 6000 jobs.
Main
activities:
Formation
through a series of Moraisian workshops of the necessary social, financial, and
productive structures necessary for the creation of a cooperative interest-free
inflation-free local economy; activities of the 297 Health Clubs set up;
on-going hygiene education lessons in the schools; the production, installation
and management of 297 distributed drinking water structures for the entire
population in the project area; the production, installation and management of
8000 independent dry composting eco-sanitation systems in users’ extended
family homes; and all of the basic services necessary for a good quality of
life in the project area, including but not limited to the elimination of smoke
hazards in and around homes, waste recycling, and interest-free cooperative
local money and formal money micro-credit structures for productivity increase,
bicycle ambulance and medicine distribution points, reinforcement of educations
and sanitation structures in the project area.
Describe the general goals and the specific
goals of the action.
Long term goals:
a)To sustain on-going
improvement of the general quality of life well-being and health of the local
people.
b)To reduce, and if possible
eliminate, financial leakage from the project area.
c)To free more human
resources for local production and development.
d)To reduce
water-borne diseases so that medical staff and financial resources can be
re-directed to other health objectives such as vaccination programmes and
preventive medicine.
e)To decrease infant
mortality and promote family planning.
f)To increase
literacy levels.
g)To eliminate
dependency on fuels imported from outside the project area.
h)To help reduce
deforestation and global warming.
i)To create value
added from locally recycled non-organic solid waste.
j)To create a
"maintenance culture" to conserve the investments made.
k)To increase the
local pool of expertise so that local people can improve their sustainable
well-being and development by identifying and solving problems, including
erosion, with a minimum of outside help.
l)To create full
employment in the project area.
m) To halt the
migration of young people from the project area to shanty towns in the large
cities.
Short term goals
contributing to the attainment of the long term goals:
a) To carry out a
basic hygiene education programme by establishing 297 Community Health Clubs in the project
area and promoting hygiene education courses in 60 existing schools.
b) To install
technically appropriate sanitation for the people in each of the 8.000 extended
family homes in the project area.
c) To provide a
permanent safe drinking water supply in the project area in all foreseeable
circumstances.
d) To make safe
drinking water available within a radius of 150-200m from users' homes.
e) To contribute to
the fight against water-related diseases through hygiene education, the supply
of appropriate sanitation and clean drinking water systems.
f) To reduce the work
load on women
g) To provide for the
continuity of health, sanitation and drinking water systems by establishing
appropriate institutional structures.
h) To enable students
and others who wish to study in the evening to do so.
i) To avoid the need
to import wood and other energy resources into the local system.
j) To introduce
efficient bio-mass fuelled means of cooking , and solar cookers for daytime
applications.
k) To create added
value through recycling of non-organic waste.
l) To keep available
financial resources (LETS money and formal money) revolving within the
beneficiary communities.
m) To stimulate
on-going local industrial and agricultural development through the use of local
currency (LETS) and micro-credit systems.
n) To create
large-scale job opportunities
(a) relevance of the action in relation to the
objectives of the fund or programme under which the application for finance is
made.
This proposal refers to decisions taken in connection with Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) adopted in 2000 with a purpose of reducing the part of
the world population without sustainable access to clean drinking water by 50%
by 2015) and the decisions taken during the World Summit on Sustainable
Development (WSSD) held in Johannesburg in 2002 with a purpose of reducing the
part of the world population without sustainable access to sustainable
sanitation by 50% and promoting efficient integrated structures for the
management of water resources.
While
The project area is in turn one of the poorest rural areas in the
country. The number of people there with access to clean drinking water and
sanitation facilities is very low. Practically no-one there has access to clean
drinking water or to sanitation facilities.
(Give a short paragraph of not
more than 10 lines, describing the National Plan for Access to Clean Drinking
Water and Sanitation in:
(
(
(The Kisii Central district and the Kiogoro project area)
It is clear from the foregoing analysis, that so long as traditional
concepts of development are followed, the task of supplying clean drinking
water and sanitation facilities to the people in the project area and of
promoting their general development so as to ensure them a good quality of life
is a very difficult, if not impossible one. New integrated development concepts
are needed to ensure that the people enjoy a complete range of services
essential to a good quality of life. A powerful local general mobilisation of
the people in the project area is needed. The formal money cost of the
mobilisation must be very low.
The project “…….. for Kiogoro” will have a pilot function. Acceptance of
the concepts applied in the project as basis for a strategic plan for
sustainable integrated development at national level in
(b)
relevance of the action in relation to the priorities of the Fund or programme
under which the application for finance is being made.
The proposal is based on the improvement of the quality of life of all
of the inhabitants in the project area, without exclusion, and in particular of
that of women, children, and the poorest. The people themselves, and in
particular the women, are mobilised to create about six thousand sustainable
jobs. They set a full range of local social, financial and productive
structures. The project is therefore not limited to drinking water supply and
sanitation. It also covers, by way of example, structures for hygiene education
for women and in schools, autonomous recycling at local level of organic and
non-organic wastes, local money systems,
interest-free micro-credit structures productivity development, structures for
the local production of most of the items necessary for the basic services in
question, communication systems, lighting for study purposes, local production
of high efficiency stoves to eliminate smoke and health hazards in and around
users’ homes, and the production of mini-briquettes for use with the stoves,
and structures at household level for the harvesting of rainwater. The drinking
water structures are the ones requiring the highest formal currency investment,
as they contain elements which are not susceptible to local manufacture under
the structures set up by the project.
The proposal responds to the goals of and the principles behind [the
tender] in a particularly innovative way. It provides for the development of
numerous permanent physical and sustainable social, financial, and productive
structures which all become the property of the inhabitants themselves, in the
management of which women play a dominating role. The inhabitants participate
in the planning, execution and
management of the project structures. They sustainably organise, run, and
maintain all of the structures set up at their own cost through the organs of
their Cooperative New Horizons for Kiogoro which they elect. The monthly
contribution of Euro 0,60 per person (during the first three years) and Euro
0,75 per person (during the following seven years) paid by each family into the
Cooperative Local Development Fund covers the entire range of services offered,
and is affordable even to the poorest families, who benefit from a three tiered
social security system itself integrated into the project structures.
Sustainable hygiene education, drinking water, eco-sanitation systems at
household level and structures for the recycling of organic and non-organic
waste and for the elimination of smoke hazards inside users’ homes improve the
conditions of health in the project area, and in particular that of women and
children. Elimination of the use of wood for cooking leads to a reduction in
CO2 emissions and to the protection of forests and the environment in general.
The project sets up a complete, voluntary, cooperative, interest-free,
inflation-free local economic environment entirely managed by the community
itself.
(c)
Identification of the perceived needs and limitations in the host country.
The people in the
Kiogoro project area do not enjoy adequate hygiene education, sanitation or
clean drinking water and. In this respect the situation in the project area is
critical.
In the project
areas most people use just
Typically women and
children often have to walk for two hours to fetch water. The average distance
from the contaminated sources to their houses is two kilometres. The dirty
water which is then usually drunk with all its pathogens without treatment and
without being boiled. The way water is provided has other social implications
too. The time and effort spent by women on fetching water could be used to improve the living conditions of
their families in other ways.
Where water is purchased or
where carriers are hired to fetch it, the average cost can be as much as € 3,75
per person per month, which alone is more than the total monthly contribution
of a family of five to this integrated development project. Poor families cannot
usually pay this amount, and are forced to fetch water from contaminated
sources, if they exist. Water is stored in (describe jars or jerry cans)
generally without lids. These containers are often badly maintained. The water
in them is replaced (times per week) using (instruments and their cleanliness).
Very
few people, even in Kiogoro town, have piped water in their homes.
Poor water quality throughout the project area spreads diseases. The
cost of the fighting often deadly water-related diseases takes up a large slice
of the family incomes. A goal of the project is to reduce water-borne disease
so medical and financial resources can be re-directed to other health
objectives like vaccination programmes and preventive medicines. Resulting
diseases also affect the quality of life and the productivity of the people.
Supply of readily accessible clean drinking water for personal and
household use should improve the health of the whole population and ease the
pressure of work on women.
The project includes
gypsum composite production units whose
first job will be to make water storage tanks and well linings for the project.
The project will provide at least
(d) List of target groups and the estimated number of direct and
indirect beneficiaries.
All of the inhabitants in the project area, estimated to be 80.000, are
both direct and indirect beneficiaries of the project.
The monthly contribution made by each family into the Cooperative Local
Development Fund amounts to about Euro 0,60 per person per month for the first
three years and Euro 0,75 per person per month for the following ten years. It
is enough to cover the full range of services offered by the project and is
within the reach of even the poorest families in the community. For them, the
elderly, the sick and the handicapped, a three-tiered social security support
structure integrated is provided, both in relation to payments of their local
money obligations and of their formal money obligations under the project.
Health conditions, in particular those of women and children, are improved
through the hygiene education clubs and hygiene education courses in schools,
the supply of clean drinking water and eco-sanitation facilities at household
level, the local recycling of organic and non-organic waste, and the
elimination of smoke hazards in users’ homes. Elimination of the need to use
wood for cooking brings with it a strong reduction in CO2 emissions and to
the sustainable protection of forests
and nature reserves in the project area. The project sets up a complete
voluntary cooperative interest-free inflation-free local economy system which
is managed by the community itself. The local economy systems does not act as a
substitute for the existing formal money system. It operates peacefully and in
harmony with the formal money system. Users choose whether they prefer to
conduct a given transaction under the framework of the local money system set
up, or under the formal money system.
(e) Reasons for the choice of the target groups and proposed activities.
The concepts of integrated development adopted in this project do not provide
for selection of target groups. The project area for this action has been
chosen because of the poverty of the inhabitants. The number of beneficiaries
is sociological in nature. It is determined by the basic relationship of an
individual with a group. The group must be large enough to offer a good choice
of local products and services to the consumers, and a market which is large
enough to allow for specialised production of goods and services. At the same
time the size of the group must remain comprehensible to the individual, who
must be able to associate with and feel an integrated part of the group. The
individual should be able to personally know the administrative organs of the
group and to participate personally in their activities. These conditions are
best met in areas with populations between 50.000 and 75.000 inhabitants. In
this particular case a slightly larger population has been accepted to respect
the homogeneity of the project area.
(f) Relevance of the action to the target groups.
a)To sustain on-going
improvement of the general quality of life well-being and health of the local
people.
b)To reduce, and if
possible eliminate, financial leakage from the project area.
c)To free more human
resources for local production and development.
d)To reduce
water-borne diseases so that medical staff and financial resources can be
re-directed to other health objectives such as vaccination programmes and
preventive medicine.
e)To decrease infant
mortality and promote family planning.
f)To increase
literacy levels.
g)To eliminate
dependency on fuels imported from outside the project area.
h)To help reduce
deforestation and global warming.
i)To create value
added from locally recycled non-organic solid waste.
j)To create a
"maintenance culture" to conserve the investments made.
k)To increase the
local pool of expertise so that local people can improve their sustainable
well-being and development by identifying and solving problems, including
erosion, with a minimum of outside help.
l)To create full
employment in the project area.
m) To halt the
migration of young people from the project area to shanty towns in the large
cities.
(g)Description of the value added
aspects of the proposal.
The proposed project is fully integrated in an innovative way and
represents a world-wide precedent. Poverty can be eliminated in the project
area over a period of 4-5 years at a cost of about Euro 100 per person through
the supply of a full range of basic structures necessary to a good quality of
life, with the creation of several thousand individual and cooperative jobs (in
this case about 6.000) and local money systems enabling limitless exchanges of locally produced goods
and services in the project area. Each family receives on an average at least
Euro
General preparation.
Formalities for
permits. Personnel necessary: coordinator and secretariat. The consultant provides
advice. The cooperation of the national and local authorities is necessary. No
specific problem is foreseen.
Purchase of land and
permanent offices, in the name of the project and on behalf of the inhabitants
in the project area. Actions : coordinator and secretariat; consultant.
Cooperation of the local authorities is necessary. No specific problem is
foreseen.
Preparation and editing of detailed project specifications.
Personnel : coordinator; consultant, secretariat. Activities include the general
definitions of the future tank commission areas, most probable sites for wells
and boreholes, as well as important administrative aspects such as the rules
for the correct notation of names of persons and places.
Construction of the workshop hall and associated drinking water, kitchen
and sanitation and nursery services. The contributions of the local populations
is expected to be 38400 work hours. Drilling of a borehole. Equipping the
borehole with pumps and solar panels. Construction of temporary dry composting
dry toilets. Garden for the recycling
(by way of example) of waste materials. Organisation of the workplaces for the
Project Coordinator and the general consultant.
Execution of activities by the coordinator and his secretariat.
Once the Moraisian workshops have been completed, the workshop hall will
be used as the permanent central project depot.
Health
Clubs.
Activities for the formation of 297 Health Clubs. Purchase and
preparation of material for the Clubs. Training of the 297 Health Club leaders.
This is the most critical phase of the entire project. Should these activities not succeed the first time, they will have to
be repeated until the Health Clubs are fully operational. Success of the
workshop is not so much a question of hygiene education but of the practical
organisation in groups of the women in the project area, to enable them to play
the important role assigned to them in the formation and management of the
social, financial and productive structures to be set up.
Execution by way of a Moraisian workshop. About 320 participants for
about 3 months. Nomination of participants at village level. Social
organisation enabling the nominee women to participate in the workshops.
Execution of activities : coordinator + secretariat + consultant +
specialist workshops + specialist hygiene education.
The contributions of the local populations for the formation of the
Health Clubs is 120.000 working hours. The cooperation of about 15 Ministry of Health public health
officials is preferred. These officials are then expected to offer technical
support the Health Clubs are required.
The workshops should produce the following structures:
-A system coordination structure:
with the project coordinator, at a level of the local authorities
involved; with the Ministry of Health; between the Health Club leaders and
Ministry of Health officials; for the statutes and the rules of the Health
Clubs.
-A materials structure; discussion with potential members of the Health Club
groups; definition of the content of the hygiene education course in accordance
with local requirements; adaptation of the material according to local cultures
(illustrations, languages etc.) using artistic styles accepted in the project
area; actual preparation of the course materials; distribution of the
materials.
-A methodology structure; how to use the materials; the role of the
Health Ministry officials; the role of
the Health Club leaders; practical exercises; how to call and run the
individual lessons; monitoring the work of the groups after the conclusion of
the courses.
-A communications structure;
-A tank commission level structure; payment of locally responsible
persons; relationships between those responsible locally and the future Tank Commission; relationships between those responsible
locally and the Ministry of health official for her area; discussions with
persons interested in participating in the (future) tank
Commissions ;registration of the course participants ; practical organisation
of the lessons and the meetings.
Transport participants. This is the most important logistical problem.
For this purpose, two buses will be purchased. At the close of the series of
workshops, the buses will be passed on the a public transport cooperative under
the framework of the interest-free micro-credit system set up.
Material editing of the course material by the women participating;
preparation of course material by the participating women. Nomination of
participants at village level. Social organisation to ensure participation by
the women in the workshops. Where necessary, a nursery to be run by women
themselves is foreseen.
Hygiene education courses in the schools.
Organisation of the
workshop : duration about three months. Contribution by the population :
34.000 working hours.
Editing, production,
and distribution of course material in the schools.
The cooperation of about 15
Ministry of Health public health officials is preferred. These officials are
then expected to offer technical support the teachers in the schools.
The cooperation of the Ministry of Education authorities is required.
The participation of a large delegation of teachers (200-250) is hoped for. The
participants must decide on the content of the courses for each different
teaching level and according to the age of the students. Efforts will be made
to cover issues related to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and to measure of voluntary birth control.
Local social structures.
The
tank commissions.
The tank commission are the heart of the planned project structures.
A Moraisian workshop will be held. Workshop activities:
Local social structures (formation three levels of management, being 297
tank commissions, 66 well commissions;
one central committee and management team. Participation : 297 persons
(mostly women) who will have indicated
their interest in taking general responsibility for participation in the tank
commissions for the local administration of the project structures. The candidates
will be indicated by the Health Clubs, who will already be in operation,
eventually in cooperation with existing village development committees where
there are any.
Definition of the social form of the tank commissions, the well
commissions; organisation , coordination, communication.
Once the workshop has been completed, the women participating in it
organise, in cooperation with the members of the Health Clubs, the election of
the tank commissions, who then together choose the members of the well
commission to which they refer. These then choose the central committee, which
nominates and controls the activities of a small central management unit.
Personnel : coordinator, secretariat, general consultant, workshops
specialist. The local populations contribute 724.000 hours of work during the
first two executive project years. Once the workshops and the elections have
been held these important activities are organised and run by the populations
themselves.
The transport of participants is an important logistical problem. For this
purpose, two buses will be purchased. At the close of the series of workshops,
the buses will be passed on the a public transport cooperative under the
framework of the interest-free micro-credit system set up.
Once the local structures are in place, the financial structures
foreseen can be se up. Most of the project activities are covered within the
framework of these new financial
structures.
Local money systems
Two Moraisian workshops will
be held.
Indicative participation (both
workshops together)
The Moraisian trainers.
The project coordinator.
General Consultant.
2 representatives of the NGO.
Representative of the Finance Ministry.
Representative of the Rural Development ministry.
At least 5 observers (possible coordinators for future projects).
264 persons, indicated by the well commissions, who will have indicated their
interest in registering transactions.
297 persons (men and women) indicated by the Tank Commissions interested in
taking responsibility for the management of the LETS systems at tank commission
level.
Duration of each workshop:
about six weeks.
The Workshops will be expected
to produce the following structures:
a) Definition of the social
form of the LETS structures
- statutes
- rules
- professional and administrative structures
- financial aspects
- relationships with other non-formal local money systems
b) Structure for the
registration of transactions
- physical working space (offices)
- adaptation of environments against weather and dust
- safety and back-up procedures to protect information
- purchase of computers, printers, equipment for registration of members et
electrical connections eventually using PV
- distribution of physical structures: LETS boxes, notice boards
- preparation of cheques or other instruments of exchange to be used
- publication of the services available within the system
c) Coordination with users
- preparatory meetings with users at tank commission level
- presentation of the local coordinator
- registration of members
- distribution of cheques or other instruments of exchange
- starting transactions
d) A communications structure
- vertical, at project level (project coordinator, transaction registrars,
those responsible at tank commission level, users)
- horizontal, with the various persons responsible at the same level (amongst
transaction registrars, amongst tank commission level operators)
- horizontal, amongst local money systems
- commercial, radio, website
Personnel : coordinator, secretariat, general consultant and
workshops specialist. The local populations will contribute 576.000 hours of
work during the first two executive years of the project.
The organisation and the construction of accommodation for the
registration of local money transactions is the responsibility of the well
commissions, who own them.. The cost of computers and equipment is charged to
the project’s formal money fund and is itemised in the budget.
The transportation of workshop participants represent an important
logistical problem. For this purpose, two buses will be purchased. At the close
of the series of workshops, the buses will be passed on the a public transport
cooperative under the framework of the interest-free micro-credit system set
up.
When the workshops have finished, all local system finance activities
are organised and managed by the populations themselves.
The management of the local financial structures is subject to the cooperation
of the fiscal authorities. An agreement on the taxation of activities conducted
under the local financial structures set up has to be reached before the
project formally starts. A general moratorium on taxation of these activities
for a number of years (at leas 10 years) followed by the application a few simple rules is preferred. These rules
are set out in detail in the project documentation. The transaction can take
place anywhere in the project area. At least one transactions assistant is
formed during the workshops to help people in each tank commission area who are
unable to read and write. Similar facilities are provided for market places and
places where commercial transactions are done. A collateral voucher system will
be introduced to cover frequent, repetitive small-scale transactions.
The micro-credit system structures workshop.
The Cooperative Local Development Fund set up by the project is an organ
of the NGO Cooperative New Horizons for Kiogoro, which is set up to manage the
project structures as they are created by the Project. It will manage formal
currency funds necessary for running the project, acting on instructions of the
general management and the Central Committee on the basis of the indications
received from those responsible at the tank and well commission levels. The
money in the fund does not belong to the Cooperative Local Development Fund,
which will intervene only in the practical management and transfer of the
funds. The decisions are taken by the users' structures set up under the
project. Where seed money for the project is supplied by way of interest-free
ten year loan, the funds formally belong to the users until the expiry of the
10 years' interest-free credit term. The interests of the financing parties are
protected by their representatives nominated to the board of the NGO Project New Horizons for Kiogoro and/or its
nominated on-going auditing commission, which will be invited to participate in
the workshop.
The Cooperative Local
Development Fund will be constituted
during the workshop which will be held once all the social structures are in
place.
The services of the Fund will
be paid in local LETS monies at a fixed rate per transaction to be set during
the workshop. If it wishes, the Fund can then use its LETS credits to purchase
goods and services inside the project area and sell them for formal money
outside the project area.
One Moraisian workshop will be
held to prepare the Bank structures.
Indicative participation:
The Moraisian trainers
The project coordinator
General Consultant
2 Representatives of the NGO acting on behalf of the financing parties.
Representative of the Finance Ministry.
Representative of the Rural Development ministry.
At least 5 observers (possible coordinators for future projects).
At least 6 qualified persons, 3 indicated by the NGO and 3 by the project
coordinator.
297 persons, indicated by the tank commissions, interested in participating
with responsibility for credit arrangements at tank commission level.
Duration of the workshop:
about four weeks.
The Workshop will be expected
to produce the following structures:
a) Definition of the social
form
- statutes
- rules
- professional and administrative structures
- financial aspects
- relations with the LETS local money systems
b) Physical aspects
- land
- office
- safety
- communications
c) Financial aspects
(Definition of initiatives at each structural level. How much money is to be
distributed at each level?)
- funding of initiatives at
general project level (recycling structures, important productivity
initiatives, public works)
- funding of initiatives at intermediate, well commission, level
- funding of initiatives at local tank commission level
- funding of socially based initiatives (clubs, interest groups etc)
- traditional banking activities
a) Central structure
b) De-centralised structure
- Preparation operators
- Meetings at tank commission level
c) Coordination
- With LETS structures
- With tank commissions
- With project coordinator
d) Financing of specific
projects
- Relations with financiers
e) Communications structure
-Vertical, at project level (project coordinator, transactions operators, tank
commission level operators, end users)
Commercial, radio, website
Personnel : coordinator, secretariat, general consultant, workshops
specialist. The populations contribute 236.000 hours of work. Computers and
equipment are charged to the formal money project funds as a separate item in
the budget.
The transportation of workshop participants represent an important
logistical problem. For this purpose, two buses will be purchased. At the close
of the series of workshops, the buses will be passed on the a public transport
cooperative under the framework of the interest-free micro-credit system set
up.
No specific administrative problem is expected with the micro-credits
system, which is independently entirely managed through the internal project
structures set up for the purpose. On-going operational costs are covered under
the local money LETS systems.
Productive
structures.
1)
Gypsum composite production units.
Three
Moraisian organisational workshops will be held, one for each production unit
planned. These production units are in principle 100% ecological with high
manual labour content, zero energy input, and up to 100% of local value added.
Indicative participation (all
workshops together)
The Moraisian trainers
The project coordinator
The general consultant
Gypsum composites consultant.
At least one representative of the applicant NGO.
Representative of the Ministry of Health.
Representative of the Rural Development ministry.
At least 5 observers (possible coordinators for future projects).
150 persons (men and women), indicated during meetings held at Tank Commission
level, interested in participating in the activities of the factories. Where
opportune, according to local political structures and traditions, up to 25% of
the people could be indicated by the local chiefs.
Duration of each workshop:
about four weeks.
The Workshops will be expected
to produce the following structures:
a) Definition of the social
form of the production units.
- statutes.
- rules.
- professional and administrative structures and formation.
- financial aspects.
- relationship with the local LETS systems.
b) A structure for the supply
of materials.
- geological research for gypsum and/or anhydrite deposits.
- quality control of the gypsum deposits.
- formation of cooperative for
exploitation of the quarries.
- locations of gypsum/anhydrite
quarries, permits.
- activities preparatory to exploitation.
- logistics.
- coordination of materials depots with the factories.
c) Definition of the items to
be made (tanks, toilets, stoves, solar cookers etc).
- coordination with the other production units (specialisation).
- contacts with families.
- definition of requirements : articles and specifications.
- definition of requirements : design, productive capacity.
- definition of the necessary procedures.
- preparation of forms and moulds, training of participants.
- tests.
- decision on priorities to be given to the various items.
d) A structure for the
factories.
- land and necessary structures.
- design of factories.
- construction of factories.
- purchase of necessary equipment.
e) A production structure.
- organisation of the production.
- commercial organisation.
f) A structure for the
installation of the items produced.
- Relationship factory-installers.
- Preparation of the installers.
- Installation.
- Siting of boreholes/wells.
- After sales backup and service.
g) A structure for
communications.
- Vertical, at project level (project coordinator, factory manager, factory
commissions, installers, end users).
- Horizontal, between production units.
- With the local money LETS systems.
- Commercial, radio, website.
h) Environmental evaluation
reports.
It is not known whether gypsum or anhydrite deposits are present in the
project area. Gypsum is in any case available in abundance in
The amounts of gypsum required
for project execution are very small, to the order of a few hundred tons per
year. In case locally available gypsum is mined,
no specific problems are expected in relation to the quarries and their
exploitation should . Quarry exploitation rights would be held on trust for and
on behalf of the inhabitants of the villages or of the tank commissions where
the deposits are situated. The people will decide what they want to do with the
used quarry premises. In particular, it is not expected that inhabitants would
need to abandon their homes as a result of the quarrying activities.
Some fine gypsum powder can be dispersed into the environment in and
around the quarries and the gypsum composite production units. The use of
protective masks and glasses in the quarries and the production units should be
enforced.
The exploitation of the quarries and the production of articles made
from gypsum composites are both cooperative in nature, and run by the local
people themselves. Their first priority is the protection of the local people
and of the environment they live in. All necessary steps will be taken for
their protection.
2. Drinking water structures.
Usually one Moraisian workshop
will be held in a given project area.
Indicative participation:
The Moraisian workshop
specialist.
The project coordinator.
The general consultant.
The gypsum composites consultant.
At least one representative of the applicant NGO.
Representative of the Health Ministry
Representative of the Rural Development ministry
At least 5 observers (possible coordinators for future projects)
66 persons indicated by the tank commissions interested in the systematic
maintenance of the structures
297 persons indicated by the tank commissions, interested in drilling
boreholes, drilling wells and building the associated civil and associated
works
Duration of the workshop:
about four weeks.
The Workshop will be expected
to produce the following structures:
a) A coordination structure
- definition of the social form
- statutes
- rules
- professional and administrative structures
- financial aspects including payments
- relations with the local money LETS systems
b) Analysis of requirements
c) Hydro-geological research
d) Preparation of maps
showing:
- sites of boreholes and wells
- tank sites
- feed-pipe installation lines
e) Specifications
- Work bases/depots
- Boreholes/wells
- Solar pumps
- Hand pumps
- Washing areas
- Solar panels
- Panel supports
- Borehole/well surroundings
- Laying of pipelines
- Installation tanks
- Eventual installation of UV purification units
- Training of well commissions
- Training of tank commission
f) Permits
g) The civil works
- Base for storage of equipment and materials
- Formation of teams
- Planning of works
- Logistics
- Equipment and materials
66 wells/boreholes
diameter. 8" (wells dug using the local money system).
66 Washing points(local money system).
66 Hand-pump platforms (local money systems).
Installation of 368 solar pumps.
Construction of 368 panel supports (local money systems).
Installation of solar panels (368*300 W = 110.4 kW).
Installation de 198 back-up hand-pumps being 66 triple unit groups.
Purchase accessories being cables, pipes for the well/borehole installations.
Feed-pipes from well sites to tank installations (200km).
Laying of
Construction of 368 water tanks (local money system).
Construction of 368 water tank bases (local money systems).
Supervision of installation and training of maintenance.
Setting up spare parts stocks/store.
Equipment for the water quality control.
h) Formation of a cooperative
for installation and maintenance.
i) Structure for the management
and monitoring of statistics and on-going daily operations at tank commission
and well commission levels..
Participants : coordinator, secretariat, general consultant, workshops
specialist, (where applicable) drilling
company. The local population participates with 392.400 hours of work.
The gypsum composite production units produce tanks, plat-forms, washing
places, panel supports etc.
Formal money capital investments for the drinking water structures form
a large part of the formal money seed funds as many of the materials and some
of the services are not available locally.
3. Recycling structures for
organic and non-organic materials.
A special fund is included in
the budget to cover the costs of setting up the recycling structures, which
have priority. The funds will be repaid by the beneficiaries in the same way as
those made available to the gypsum composite factories. They will take the form
of interest-free credits repayable according to the real possibilities of those
involved as decided during the organisational workshops during which the
structures are set up. The repayments will be financed by sale of materials
such as fertilisers and compost outside the project area and by the
"exportation" of solid non-organic waste which are not recyclable
within the project area itself. A
possible general structure for the integrated recycling of waste in project
areas is illustrated in the project documentation.
The work of the recycling
structures will be carried out within the local money LETS systems already set
up. One of the more interesting features of LETS systems is that, in contrast
with what happens in the western monetised economies, work considered as
"dirty" and/or "heavy" is usually better paid than
"clean" and/or "light" work as the rates charged will
normally be related to the perceived value of an hour's work in the foreseeable
normal working situation.
Two Moraisian workshops will
be held.
Indicative participation (all
workshops together).
The Moraisian trainers.
The project coordinator.
General consultant.
At least one representative of the applicant NGO.
Representative of the Finance Ministry.
Representative of the Health Ministry.
Representative of the Rural Development ministry.
At least 5 observers (possible coordinators for future projects).
297 persons (male and female)indicated by the tank commissions, interested in
participating in the recycling of organic waste.
132 persons indicated by the
well commissions interested in the recycling of inorganic waste.
Duration of each workshop:
about four weeks.
The Workshops will be expected
to produce the following structures:
a) Definition of the social
form of the structures
- statutes
- rules
- professional and administrative structures
- financial aspects including relations with the Micro-credit institution
- relations with the local money LETS systems
b) Analysis of requirements
c) A structure for the
recycling centres
- Definition of the land requirements and the physical structures necessary
- formalities and permits
- design of the centres
- construction of the centres
- purchase of the necessary equipment
d) A structure for the
collection/deposition of waste
- urine
- composted excreta
- waste water
- other organic waste
- non organic solids
- special industrial wastes
- medical wastes
- who will do what
- definition of individual zones
- definition of specialisations
e) A commercial structures
- definition of the tariffs applicable to the various types of material
- distribution of urine and composted excreta
- direct recycling of certain materials
- contacts for the exportation of materials not recyclable locally
f) A monitoring structure
- sanitary conditions
- ecological conditions
- safety conditions
g) A communications structure
- vertical, at project level (coordinator, centre managers, collection
structures, end users)
- horizontal, between centres
- relations with local money LETS systems
- commercial, radio, website
Contribution of the local populations 576.000 working hours.
The local gypsum composite production units produce tanks, toilets ,
san-plats and building support structures within the framework of the local
money systems.
Cooperation of local authorities and of the Ministry of Public Health is
needed for permits and concessions for depots and environmental clearance
certificates.
4. Structures for energy autonomy.
24000 high efficiency stoves
are to be built in the gypsum composite production units.
The structures foreseen are
for the production of mini-briquettes for the stoves to be made by the gypsum
composite production units and for the production of bio-masse to make the
mini-briquettes.
One Moraisian workshops will
be held.
Indicative participation.
The Moraisian trainers.
The project coordinator.
General consultant.
Gypsum composites consultant.
At least one representative of the applicant NGO.
Representative of the Health Ministry.
Representative of the Rural Development ministry.
At least 5 observers (possible coordinators for future projects).
264 persons indicated by the well commissions interested in the production of
mini-briquettes.
594 persons indicated by the tank commissions, interested in producing
bio-masse for the mini-briquettes.
Duration of the workshop:
about four weeks.
The Workshop will be expected
to produce the following structures:
a) A coordination structure.
- definition of the social form.
- statutes.
- rules.
- professional and administrative structures.
- financial aspects including payments.
- relations with the local money LETS systems.
b) Analysis of requirements.
- detailed analysis of the present systems.
- demand in the project area.
- demand outside the project area.
c) Analysis of the bio-masse
resources available.
d) Definition of the recipes
(mixtures) socially acceptable.
e) Creation of the physical
structures for briquette production.
f) Logistics.
- Assembly and stocking of materials.
- distribution of mini-briquettes.
g) Organisation of the
cultivation of bio-mass.
h) Commercial.
- Availability of micro-credits for growers.
- Availability of micro-credits for briquette makers.
- Prices for briquette distribution according to the various mixtures.
The contribution of the local
populations is 228.800 working hours.
5. Structures for water purification.
63 Installations for
the purification of water in clinics and schools.
Goal : to redouble the safety of clean drinking water for children and
the ill.
Personnel : coordinator, secretariat, general consultant ;
Contribution of populations 2.800
working hours.
No workshop is required for this.
Formation of structures for the collection and the analysis of water
quality.
Purchase of equipment.
Installation by the installation and maintenance cooperative already in
place.
On-going monitoring of activities and statistics.
6.
Structures for lighting for study purposes at tank commission level and in
schools and clinics.
297 photovoltaic
lighting systems for study purposes.
No workshop is
required for this.
Purchase of the
systems specially covered under separate budget items
Purchase PV
television for study purposes depends on local circumstances and the decisions
of the local tank commissions.
PV lighting for 60 schools.
PV lighting for the three of clinics in the project area.
PV refrigeration for the three clinics in the project area.
Construction of 297 study rooms at tank
commission level.
Installation and
maintenance by the installation and maintenance cooperatives for water services
already set up.
Personnel :
coordinator, secretariat, and general consultant.
Contribution des
populations for the construction of the study rooms : 99.200 working hours.
The agreement of the ministries
of Public Health and Education is necessary for the installation of systems in
schools and clinics.
7.
Structures for rain-water harvesting at household level.
No workshop is
required for this.
Construction of the
first 200 of 8000 rain-water harvesting systems by the gypsum composite
production units.
Installation and
maintenance by the installation and maintenance cooperatives for water services
already set up.
Personnel :
coordinator, secretariat, and general consultant.
Contribution des
populations for the construction of the first two hundred pilot systems and
monitoring them : 36.400 working hours.
(This item is included in the productive structures, and space is
allowed for it in the balance sheet. Cost coverage for it [has, has not] been included in the
balance sheet. [This is because it may not always qualify for inclusion in
integrated drinking water, sanitation and hygiene education structures under tenders
issued by donor organisations.] )
The establishment of a local
radio station is an integral part of the project. The station is a part of the
management of communications concerning the project.
Since most people in the
project areas possess a radio, radio is an excellent way to spread information
on the project developments and the management of the structures set up. It
also enables users to discuss initiatives taken and to be taken, and to express
their criticisms. It can also become a vehicle for local commerce.
The station will usually be
placed in a location in the centre of the project area so as to limit the
transmission radius. A PV operated station may be preferred to one running on
"imported" electricity, as this increases the autonomy of the station
and reduces long term financial leakage from the project area.
The management of the station
will be completely autonomous.
(a) Transmission of information on project
activities (news bulletins).
- Convocation of meetings for structures (tanks commissions, LETS systems etc)
.
- Information on decisions taken during meetings.
- Information on progress made with the installation/setting up of the various
structures.
- Information of interest-free micro-credits conceded.
(b) Transmissions by interest
groups.
- Initiatives the groups wish to take.
- Information on initiatives under way.
(c) Information on cultural
and sporting activities in the project area.
(d) Emergency services.
(e) Promotion of the project
towards the outside.
Financing.
The setting up of the station
[is, is not] covered by a separate item in the indicative balance sheet. How
can the station reimburse this interest-free credit?
- Work is carried out under
the local LETS money systems - Expenses in formal currency (electricity?, equipment
and the costs of running it) would need to be paid back over 3 or 4 years. How:
-a) Collection of a small (formal currency) contribution at household level?
-b) Payments for services rendered to people living in the areas surrounding
the project area.
-c) Advertising by producers in the project area towards people living in the
surrounding areas Usually just one Moraisian workshop will be held in a given
project area.
Indicative participation.
The Moraisian trainers.
The project coordinator.
General consultant.
At least one representative of the applicant NGO.
Representative of the Ministry of Communications.
At least 5 observers (possible coordinators for future projects).
66 persons indicated by the tank commissions, interested in producing
programmes for and in the management of the station.
Duration of the workshop:
about three weeks.
The Workshop will be expected
to produce the following structures:
a) A coordination structure.
- definition of the social form.
- statutes.
- rules.
- professional and administrative structures.
- financial aspects including payments.
- relations with the local money LETS systems.
b) Analysis of requirements.
- detailed analysis of the communications needs of the individual structures
created under the project.
- demand in the project area.
- demand outside the project area.
c) Material structure.
- Land.
- Permits.
- Office/studio.
- Transmission equipment.
- Equipment for production and storing of programmes.
d) Logistics.
- Transport.
- Storage of materials.
- Organisation of network.
The action will last 24
months.
N.B.: Note: The indicative action plan should not mention actual dates
but simply indicate, month 1 ; month 2 ; etc. Applicants should allow a margin
of security in their plan. The plan should not include detailed descriptions of
the activities, but just their headings. Months without activities should be
included in the action plan and in the total duration of the action.
Activity plan,
month by month and year by year.
N.B:
for each expected result provide verifiable indicators (refer also to the logical frame
sheet ) which enable the progress made to be identified, described
and measured.
The action will improve:
(a) the situation of the target groups and final beneficiaries.
All 80.000 inhabitants, without exclusion, benefit from all of the
social, financial and productive structures and services set up during the
project.
Inhabitants will have
A complete appropriate dry composting eco-sanitation system will be
installed in each of the 8.000 extended family homes in the project area.
A contribution to the fight against water-borne diseases will also be
made through hygiene education through the formation of 297 Health Clubs for
women (however the Clubs will also be open to the participation of men), and
the introduction of institutionalised hygiene education courses in the 60
schools in the project area together eco-sanitation and drinking water supplies
there.
Students and other persons, especially women, who wish to study in the
evening will be able to do so under
acceptable lighting conditions in 297 study rooms built under the project and
fitted with photovoltaic lighting equipment.
The introduction of high efficiency
bio-mass stoves made in the project area will lead to a reduction (and
later, to the elimination) of the importation of fuels for cooking into the
project area.
The work load on women will be reduced through the elimination of the
need for them to fetch water and wood for cooking purposes.
Local value added will be increase by the local recycling of non-organic
waste in the project area.
Available financial resources (both local money under the LETS
structures set up and formal money) will be constantly recycling interest-free
within the community in the project area.
Local industrial and agricultural production will be increased through
the use local money LETS systems and interest-free revolving micro-credit systems.
Ecological and sustainable exploitation of (name the areas concerned)
natural and tourist resources in the project area will be promoted in
cooperation with the (name the Ministries involved) and local flora and fauna
protected.
About 6000 jobs will be created.
Young people will be trained to repeat and multiply this innovative
pilot initiative in other parts of (host country) and in other countries.
(b)Describe where applicable the responsibilities and technical and
management capacities of the various partners involved in project execution.
This is not applicable to this project. The NGO Kiogoro Integrated
Development Project is a partnership of development NGOs already involved in
rural development projects in
(c)Describe the situation with the ACTION in relation to the situation WITHOUT THE ACTION.
The project supplies basic structures necessary to an acceptable quality
of life, including but not limited to hygiene education, supply a clean
drinking water, and sanitation facilities to all of the 80.000 people, without
exclusion, in the project area. At the same time the project makes a complete
range of self-managed social, financial and productive structures available to
the inhabitants. All these structures should be put in place during the first
15 months of project execution. However, some specific initiatives will only
begin towards the end of the 24 months’ executive period of the project. The
production of items necessary for
eco-sanitation and for rainwater harvesting, and of improved cooking stoves
and mini-briquettes for them will continue beyond the 24 months’ executive
period.
Improvement in the quality of life of all the inhabitants in the project
area and in particular that of the women and children there should have become
a reality by the close of the first period of 24 months. However, several more
years will be needed to totally eliminate poverty fro the project area. During the first 24months about 6000 jobs
will have been created, contributing to the reduction of unemployment in the
project area. Women will no longer be fetching water over long distances and
will be participating actively in the operation of the social, financial and
productive organs set up. Each family will on an average have been able
to benefit from an interest-free micro-credit for about Euro 150-300. Over the
first ten year project cycle, each family will receive interest-free
micro-credits for productivity increase for on an average about Euro 2500. The
entire population should be actively participating in the local money systems
set up. A beginning will have been made to the reduction of financial leakage
from the project area and the liberation of more human resources for local
production and development.
A contribution will already have been made to a reduction in the
incidence of water-borne diseases through the formation of 297 Health Clubs and
hygiene education courses in the schools, the supply of clean drinking water,
clean conditions around boreholes wells and water tanks, the improvement of
drainage in public places, the operation of waste recycling structures, and a
start to the installation of 8.000
sanitary structures, one in each extended family home in the project area, to
be completed over a period of about 4-5
years.
The fight against smoke hazards to health, especially of that of women
and children, will have begun with the introduction of improved cooking stoves
and mini-briquettes for them. Reduction on the dependence of the population in
the project area on imported fuels for cooking and lighting will have commenced. Some of the families
will no longer have to fetch wood for cooking.
Over a period of 4-5 years,
distribution of the 24.000 stoves
necessary will have been completed, and production of the mini-briquettes
necessary for their operation under way.
The following social structures will be in place :
297 structures for
basic hygiene education for women, and on-going systematic hygiene education
courses in the schools.
297 tank commissions.
66 well commissions.
1 project level management unit.
A three-tiered social security system for the elderly, the sick and the
handicapped.
The following financial structures will be in place:
A self-run
cooperative interest-free, inflation-free local money system enabling limitless
transfer of locally produced and consumed goods and services to take place.
A self-run
cooperative, interest-free micro-credit system for local productivity increase.
The following productive structures will be in place :
Three structures for
the production of articles made from gypsum composites, such as those for sanitation purposes, the high-efficiency
stoves, rain-water harvesting.
297 structures for recycling of organic waste, and 66 structures for the
recycling of non-organic waste.
66 structures for the manufacture of
mini-briquettes for the improved stoves; 594 sources for the growing of
bio-mass for the mini-briquettes.
297 structures enabling students (including women) to study in the evening.
(d) Describe in detail steps to
be taken to monitor the given indicators.
Most of the social, financial, and productive structures set are by the
project are physically quantifiable. Since the services are placed at the
disposition of all of the inhabitants without exclusion, control and systematic
monitoring are simple to organise. The
structures are concentrated in a clearly defined territory with limited
dimensions. In particular, clean drinking water, sanitation structures,
lighting and waste recycling structures are all physically present following a
systematic and known pattern..
According to the new development principles applied in this project, the
basic task of the applicant is on-gong control over project execution. This
control is continuous, with the participation of a team including an executive
director, an economist, a civil engineer, a sociologist, a secretariat all or
any of whom may physically attend meetings project execution.
In more detail :
For the 297 Health Clubs, the following information is available.
Workshop reports; presence at the workshop;
reports on the activities of the clubs; presence at the meetings held
by Health Clubs chosen at random. Copies
of printed material for the courses. Research enquiry amongst women. The same
applied for the Hygiene education courses in the schools.
For the 297 Tank Commissions, heart of the project, the following
information is available: Workshop reports; presence at the workshop; reports
on the activities of the commission; presence at the meetings held by
Commissions chosen at random. Statistics on the activities of the Commissions.
Inspection of the physical structures run by the commissions and checking their
operation. Enquiries amongst the populations served by specified tank
commissions. The same is applicable to the work of the well commissions.
In particular, with regard to clean drinking water services, physical
execution of the works according to the project plan, starting with the well digging or drilling
and their equipment, the photovoltaic installations, the presence of
guards; works for the installation of
feed pipes. Information on progress made with the construction of tank
production units, tank supports, panel
supports and designs for the preparation of moulds for their manufacture.
Subsequently, monitoring their production and installation. Monitor the
distance between the tank sites and the homes served. Then actively actual
supply of drinking water to the families and the action taken to control water
quality.
With regard the sanitation structures, monitor the physical execution of
works for the construction of the production units foreseen, and for the exploitation
of the gypsum quarries. la suite,
Monitor progress made on the design and preparation of forms and moulds for the
manufacture of the sanitation systems and their installation. Check
installation statistics and statistics on system operation.. Monitor operation
amongst random-chosen households. Organise surveys amongst the population.
With regard to the operation of the local financial structures set up :
the applicant NGO can carry out a comparison between financial activities at
the time of the survey and those applying at the start of the project. Surveys
amongst users can be held. A list of activities started after project start-up
can be held. Study information and statistics on the operation of the
micro-credit systems. Participate in meetings of the management organs of the
funds. Physically check the work and operation of the local money transaction
registration centres.
The 66 recycling centres can be checked by physical observation of the
cleanliness of the environment in the project area. Surveys amongst users can
be held. The recycling centres can be visited. Liaison can be set up with
the Ministry of Public Health and with
Public Health inspectors charged with supervision over the recycling centres.
With regard to the introduction of 24.000 high efficiency stoves, the
production of mini-briquettes for them, and the elimination of smokes hazards
in and around the homes, the physical presence of the stoves in the homes can
be checked, surveys held amongst users; visits made to the mini-briquette
production units; the books and accounts of the production units checked ; the
physical presence of bio-mass in the
fields checked.
(e) Level of implication of
other participating organisations.
Execution : local
populations with the support of the project coordination group and a small team
of specialists “the project government”.
Permanent structural monitoring of project execution : the task of the
applicant Kiogoro Integrated Development Project, as “project
parliament” .
Auditing commission checking applicant’s books and project execution..
Independent audit.
(Associates : NGO
(Associate : NGO
(Partners :
(NGO’s active in development projects in
(f)Justification of partners’
roles.
Not applicable to this project. Each member of the partnership nominates
a member to the Board of Directors of the Kiogoro Integrated Development Project.
The board nominates the on-going auditing committee. It also nominates the
members of the Project Coordination Group.
(g) Team proposed for the
execution of the action (describe for each function: do not include the names
of individual persons involved).
The project mobilises and/or
employs about 6000 permanently, being about 10% of the target adult population.
Here are some examples of permanent jobs. Figures vary from one project to
another and are indicative.
297 Health Club
leaders;
1500 tank commission members;
300 well commission
members;
66 members of the Central Committee of the NGO Cooperative for Kiogoro.
10 members of the
central management unit;
1320 persons for the registration of local money transactions;
297 local money transaction assistants;
297 local recycling system members;
132 well-level recycling members;
297 guards for structures;
594 farmers for bio-mass for mini-briquettes;
132 mini-briquette manufacturers;
150 manufacturers of gypsum composite products such as tanks, stoves, sanitation
systems;
100 installers;
50 maintenance staff;
10 people for water quality control.
The following professional services are foreseen :
Project coordinator and a team comprising:
1. 1 general consultant for the application of the principles on which the
project is based. (24 months)
2. 1 expert in Moraisian workshops. (12 months)
3. 1 hygiene education course expert. (6 months)
4. 1 gypsum composites expert. (24 months)
On-going auditing commission : probably about seven members. The
commission has investigative powers and can view all project documents and
actions at any moment.
Independent auditor.
3.1 Appropriateness,
practicability, and coherence of the proposed activities.
The project sets a cooperative, non-profit, interest-free,
inflation-free economic environment up in the project area for the benefit of
all of the inhabitants there, where individual initiative and true competition
can flourish. It produces direct employment for about 10% of the adult
population and powerfully influences the economic development of the remaining
90%. All of the social and economic structures and services set up are
sustainably created, run owned by and paid for by the people themselves without
the need for any financial assistance after their formation. These local economic and management
structures are set up during capacitation or organisation workshops run following
the concepts presented by the Brazilian sociologist Clodomir Santos de Morais.
The order in which these workshops are held is critical.
The new integrated sustainable development principles applied for the
first time in this project call for a pre-determined sequence of activities
offering an optimum guarantee to donors and funding organisations as to how
their funds are used. First, the social structures, being the health clubs or
the hygiene education structures (they constitute a platform for women’s
participation, the tank or local development commissions, the well or
intermediate level development commissions, and a central management structure
are set up. Secondly, the financial structures, being the local money systems
and the self-financing interest-free micro-credit systems are set up. Finally,
productive structures are set up for the local production, using the financial
systems created, of most of the articles necessary for the range of basic
services foreseen, such as the distributed drinking water and eco-sanitation
structures.
3.2 Participation of partners and of
the beneficiary population.
First, about 297 Health Clubs, each based on 20 extended family groups
(200-300 people) are set up. They form a platform for women, to make sure they
can organise themselves in groups and participate en bloc at local development meetings and to
play a dominant role in the various social, economic, service and productive
structures set up.
Once the Health Clubs are in operation, about 297 tank or local
development commissions are set up. They are based on the same groups of 20
extended family groups (200-300 people). The commissions each have 3 - 5
members, all or at least most of whom are women. These commissions are the
heart of the project. They in turn elect
66 intermediate or well commissions, which in turn choose a 66 member central committee, which nominates
and controls the operation of a general
management unit.
Once the tank and well commissions and the central management unit are
in place, it is possible to set up the local money systems which offer the
inhabitants in the project area means for the transfer of all locally produced
and consumed goods and services. The art is at this point to identify and use
technologies enabling most of the goods and services necessary to local
development and a good quality of life in the project area to be produced with
100% local value added. Such goods and services can then be produced,
installed, maintained and paid under the framework of the local money systems
set up, without the need for any formal money at all. An example applied in
this project is the possibility to produce, install, manage, and maintain a
complete dry composting eco-sanitation structure through out the project area
without the need for a cent of formal money. The costs of running the local
money systems are covered under the local money systems themselves.
Once the LETS local money systems are in place, a distinction can be
made between what can be done under the local money systems and what must be
“imported” into the project area. Goods and services needed for basic urgently
needed services such as clean drinking
water supply, use is made of the project’s seed funds to cover the formal money
(Euros) cost of imported goods and services. For other initiatives cooperative
interest-free micro-credit structures are put in place. These recycle the
users' monthly contributions (Euro 0,60 per person during the first three years
and Euro 0,75 per person during the next following seven years) to the
Cooperative Local Development Fund interest-free for credits for sustainable
productivity purposes, for the purpose of purchasing goods for productivity
increase not locally produced. The micro-credit systems will allow about Euro
4500 of interest-free micro-credit per family during the first ten years of the
project. Probably more, as the Euro 4500 is conservatively based on an average
two-year pay back time. The Cooperative Local Development Fund is set up as a
project structure. It belongs to, and is run by the people themselves, through
the NGO Cooperative for Kiogoro of which they are all members. At the beginning
with professional support will be made available by the project Coordination
group to the various organs of the NGO Cooperative for Kiogoro. The costs of
running the micro-credit structures are covered under the local money
systems.
Once the cooperative micro-credit structures and the LETS local money
systems are in place, the production structures can be set up, and in
particular units for the production of articles from gypsum composites. Amongst
the priority items for manufacture in these factories are products necessary
for the water supply project such as water tanks, well linings, water containers,
etc. When capacity is available they can
start making the planned ecological sanitation systems, and other necessary
items such as high efficiency stoves, rainwater harvesting systems,
construction components. Since cheap gypsum or anhydrite deposits are (usually)
present or near the project area, no formal money is needed either for the raw
materials or for production. Installation and maintenance.
3.3 Sustainable impact.
Apart from structures basic to poverty alleviation and an improved
quality of life, such as hygiene education at home and in the schools, water
supply, sanitation in the homes at schools and in clinics, solar lighting for
study purposes, solar refrigeration for medicines in clinics, improved cooking
stoves etc, no attempt is made in this project to list all
of the initiatives which could take place, as these are as varied as the minds
and wishes of the people.
However, any services the local people may consider of special
importance can always be included in the project and itemised in the budget.
Some examples are the setting up of a local radio station, setting up local
milk shops for the pasteurisation and distribution of milk, the creation of
cooperative storage facilities for food, especially for food for local
consumption, the creation of a seed bank and the draining and re-structuring of
market squares and public places. Many such poverty alleviation initiatives may
require some project-level formal money funds and qualify for itemised
inclusion in the project budget. Other initiatives, for instance, creating
sports clubs, theatre groups, local consultants’ offices, or communications
centres, plant nurseries, reforestation etc would typically be done under a
combination of the LETS local money systems and the interest-free micro-credit
systems.
The contributions made by users into their Cooperative Local
Development is sufficient to finance and repay, were this to be necessary, an
interest free formal currency loan for up to Euro 6.000.000 over a period of 10
years, taking the various reserves and loan repayments into account. Should
payments out of reserves be higher than expected, the project administration
may choose to increase the monthly contribution of the families after four or
five years, as their standard of living improves. Interest-free loans for various project
structures transferred to private persons or cooperatives are paid back into
the Cooperative Local Development Fund over a period of 3-5 years. These loans
include those for the gypsum composites manufacturing units, the briquette
manufacturing units, public transport cooperatives (buses), and the maintenance
and installation cooperatives (vehicles). At the end of the ten years' period,
on repayment, where appropriate, of the ten year interest-free loan, large
capital reserves will again be built up during the following ten years for use
in Micro-credits and, subsequently, for the extension and renewal of the
capital goods. In case of loan repayment after ten years, funds available for
interest-free micro-credits will temporarily
be reduced to zero. Since the families continue to make their monthly
payments to the Cooperative Local Development Fund, the capital in the Fund for
micro-credits will gradually build up again as it did during the first period of
ten years. Where the original seed funding was by way of grant, the large
amount of capital in the Fund at the close of the first period of ten years
will continue to circulate and accumulate. It may all or in part be used for the extension of project structures.
The principles of sustainable integrated development on which this
project is based are such that all, or at least a part of users’ monthly contributions to the Cooperative Local
Development Fund can be covered by savings in their current expenditure which
are a direct consequence of the use of
the project structures set up. For instance, users no longer need to make
formal money payments for drinking water, for wood for cooking, or for rubbish
collection. Some sustainable applications under the project reduce CO2
emissions. The main one is through the use of locally-produced high efficiency
cooking stoves, others are the substitution of the use of kerosene lamps by
solar home systems, and of some pumping systems by solar or advanced hand-pump
technologies, and the reduction of the use of non-rechargeable batteries. They
therefore qualify in theory under the
3.4 How is the action linked to earlier
projects which have already taken place? (As applicable).
Not applicable to
this project.
3.5 Internal control and evaluation procedures.
The integrated development concepts applied in this project are
different from those traditionally adopted. The local populations are
themselves responsible for the execution of most of the project works. They are
prepared for their tasks during Moraisian workshops. Their work is carried out under the social
and financial structures set up by the project. The project coordination group,
sole responsible for the execution of project activities and its consultants
give support and advice to the populations. The work and services carried out
by local inhabitants are effectively paid for by the local population under the
local money systems set up. Every transaction is duly registered. A conversion
rate of 3 Euro per eight-hour working day has been applied to determine the
formal money co-financing by the populations of the project.
One aspect of the tasks of the three levels ( tank commission, well
commission and central management) of operational structures put in place is to
report on their meetings and activities. These reports are put at the disposal
of the coordinator, the applicant Kiogoro Integrated Development Project as
monitoring body, the on-going auditing commission, and the independent auditor.
The roles of the applicant Kiogoro Integrated Development Project and
the project coordination group are very specific. The applicant NGO is
responsible for permanent on-going on site monitoring of project progress and
the operation of the project coordination groups and its team. The applicant is the controlling organism, or
the “parliament”. The project coordination team plays the role of the
executive, or the “government”. Following these concepts, the executive must
always remain entirely independent from the applicant NGO, so as to avoid all
risk of conflict of interests. The applicant NGO, responsible for the project
vis à vis external funding agencies exercises on-going continuous control over
project execution and over the activities of the project coordination team. For
this purpose it nominates an on-going auditing committee. The applicant NGO,
once it has approved the project at the start, may always express its opinion
but may not intervene directly in project execution. The monitoring activities
of the on-going auditing commission are in turn subject to control by the independent
auditor.
For its activities as first level monitoring (“parliamentary
control”) the applicant NGO, through its
on-going auditing commission, has many sources of information available.
Most of the social, financial and productive services set up by the
project are physically quantifiable. Since they are the services are put at the
disposal of all of the inhabitants in the project area, without exclusion,
monitoring them is relatively easy. The structures are concentrated in a
limited territory. In particular, drinking and sanitation structures are
physically present following a systematic known pattern.
For the Health Clubs, reports on the workshops setting them up are
available. The applicant NGO
participates in the workshop activities. Reports on the activities of
the individual clubs are available. The
applicant NGO may attend meetings of Health Clubs chosen at random. Copies of
the materials prepared for the courses are available. The applicant NGO can carry
out surveys amongst the women in the project area. The same principles apply to
the hygiene courses in the schools.
For the Tank Commissions, the heart of the project, reports on the
workshops setting them up are available. The applicant NGO participates in the workshop activities. Reports
on the activities of the individual commissions are available. The applicant NGO may attend monthly meetings
of Tank Commissions chosen at random and can inspect the physical structures
they are responsible for and check their operation. The applicant NGO can carry
out surveys amongst the women served by the tank commission concerned. The same
applies to monitoring the activities of the well commissions.
In particular, the physical execution of clean drinking water facilities
according to the project plan can be physically inspected, starting with the
wells/boreholes, their equipment, the photovoltaic installations installed, the
presence of guards; pipe-line laying activities. He can check progress made on
the construction of the gypsum composite production units for the production of
tanks, tank supports and panel supports, and the designs for and the
preparation of forms and moulds for their manufacture. Subsequently he can
monitor their production and installation. He can check the physical distances
between the tank installations and the homes served and the activities for
monitoring water quality.
In relation to sanitation, the applicant NGO can carry out physical
on-site inspection of the construction of the planned production units, and the
exploitation of local gypsum deposits. He can then check the design and
preparation of forms and moulds for the manufacture of the eco-sanitation
systems and their installation and operation. He can carry out surveys of
operation and monitoring at household level with households chosen at
random. He can organise general surveys
amongst the populations.
In relation to the financial structures set up, the applicant NGO can
make a statistical comparison between the level of economic activity in the
project area before the start of the
project and the level of productivity after the start of the project. He can
carry out surveys amongst users; make a list of activities start after the
commencement of the project; study information and statistics on the number of
and value of the micro-credits made available. He can check the operation of
the local money LETS systems by on-site random surveys, by viewing the number
of transactions at each tank commission, well commission and project level and
their value; he can calculate the rate at which the local money credits are
recycling in the project area.
The recycling network can be monitored by making random checks on the
cleanliness of the environment in the project area, by way of surveys amongst
users, and by physical visits to the individual recycling stations.
The introduction of
high efficiency cookers can be monitored by checking the accounts of the stove
production units, by checking the actual on-site production of the stoves; by
visiting and checking the mini-briquette production units and their statistics
and books, by checking the physical presence and use of
the stoves in the homes of users chosen
at random, and the elimination of smoke inside and around the households. He
can carry out surveys amongst
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