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
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,
05.04
Four-page summary of the action, for funding applications.
I. CONCEPT
NOTE
1.Summary
of the action:
1.
Short description of the proposed
action.
This innovative sustainable integrated development project is called “Kiogoro Integrated Development
Project”. It is submitted under the section (name the section – an example might
be “Co-financing of civil society and
decentralised cooperation initiatives” ) of the (reference of the international
aid fund or facility in question).
The project refers to
the Kiogoro Division of the Kisii Central District, in the
2.Relevance.
2.1 Needs and constraints.
This proposal refers
to decisions taken in connection with ( example : 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 (example: 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
(Give a short paragraph of not more than 10 lines, describing the
National Plan for Access to Clean Drinking Water and Sanitation in:
(
(Nyanza Priovince)
(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 “Kiogoro
Integrated Development Project” 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
2.2
Poor and vulnerable populations.
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 thousands (about six thousand) of sustainable jobs. They
set a full range of local social, financial and productive structures up. 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.
2.3.
Relationship of the project with the goals and principles behind the tender.
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. The monthly contribution (Euro 0,60 per
person for the first three years, 0,75 per person for 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.
2.4
Added value and multiplying effects.
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
3. Methodology and sustainability.
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 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, which can then be installed.
3.2
Participation of partners and of the beneficiary population.
First, 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,
financial, service and productive structures set up.
Once the Health Clubs
are in operation, 297 tank or local development commissions are set up. They
are based on the same groups of 20 extended families (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 central commission, which is the Project Parliament. The
Central Commission nominates a central management unit and controls its
activities.
Once the tank and
well commissions and the central committee 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 for 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 throughout 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. For 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 for the first three years, and Euro 0,75
per person for the 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 allow for at least Euro 2500 of interest-free micro-credit
for each family during the first ten years of the project. Probably more, as
the Euro 2500 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, at the beginning with professional
support through the project Coordinator.. 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. Where cheap gypsum or anhydrite deposits are present in or near the
project area (indicate where), little or no formal money is needed either for
the raw materials or for production, installation and maintenance. Small
amounts of formal money may be needed to cover the purchase of gypsum in other
areas of
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. Some of them are provided for 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 Fund are sufficient, were this to be necessary, to finance and repay an interest free formal currency loan for up to Euro 6.00.000 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 by the project 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 first ten years' period, on repayment, where appropriate, of any ten year interest-free loan, large capital reserves will again be built up during the next following ten years for use in Micro-credits and, subsequently, for the extension and renewal of capital goods. In case of loan repayment after ten years, funds available for interest-free micro-credits will be temporarily 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 during the second period of ten year 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 for micro-credit loans and accumulate. Some or all of it may be invested to extend 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, at least in theory, under the
4.Operational capacity and expertise.
4.1. Applicant’s experience.
The NGO “Kiogoro
Integrated Development Project” has been set up by its members for the purposes
of execution of the project. The members of the applicant partnership have been
active since (years) in rural development initiatives in rural areas in
4.2.Technical
expertise sufficient to carry the project out.
Local people running
the social, financial and productive structures and services set up under the project are themselves
responsible for most of the project activities. A three-member project
coordination group with a general consultant for integrated development of the
type foreseen and three specialists over a period of 6-12 months are sufficient
for the formal execution of the project. The project area is in the
The nominated project coordination team is (name, main qualification and
details from their curricula). (List experience specific to their
responsibilities as members of the project coordination team.) The members of the team know the project area
well, and are well known to and respected by the population in the project
area.
(Description)
The named consultant (Terrence Edward MANNING) is (director of the Dutch
NGO Stichting Bakens Verzet.) He is the author of the innovative Model on the
basis of which this project has been drafted. NGO Stichting Bakens Verzet is
responsible for the promotion of the Model for sustainable integrated
development in question, which it has
placed in the public domain. NGO Stichting Bakens Verzet, through its director Mr Manning, has also
cooperated in the drafting of this project, in the sole interests of the local
population and without remuneration, as a voluntary contribution to the
development of the project area. The NGO Stichting Bakens Verzet has agreed to
make Mr. Manning available to act as general consultant to the project
coordinator for the executive management of the project for the maximum daily
pro-diem payment foreseen by the European Union for European expatriate staff
in
One of the secondary project goals is the training of younger people to
repeat this experience in other areas in
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