Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener 50,
1771 ED Wieringerwerf,
The Netherlands.
Tel:
0031-227-604128
Homepage:
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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,
5.15 Project management committee.
Women
play a basic role in the management of the structures set up.
There
are three management levels:
The tank commissions.
The tank commissions are the administrative heart of the project.
The well commissions.
The well commissions have specific tasks, including the election of the central
management structure.
The central management
committee, which is chosen by the well commissions, usually but not necessarily
from amongst their own members.
The
form and tasks of the project management structure will be decided during the Moraisian workshop where the social structures of the
project are planned and set up. It is a permanent structure subject to
reconfirmation by election on a yearly, two-yearly or three-yearly basis. It
can normally be expected to have about seven to nine members. It is the main
organ responsible for the operation of the NGO Cooperative for Kiogoro.
The
first central committee will be set up during the third quarter, after the
formation of the well commissions and the financial structures. It takes over
responsibility for the on-gong operation and maintenance of the project
structures as they are created by the Kiogoro
Integrated Development Project. The members of the central committee will be
paid under the local money systems. The structure will, however, also have
formal money costs to meet, and an allowance, usually about Euro 15.000 per
year, is made available through the Cooperative Local Development Fund for this
purpose. This is part of the standard
on-going formal money expenditure covered by the monthly contributions made
by the inhabitants.
The
central committee of the project will initially be supported during the first
two executive years by the Project Coordination team, with the help of the
General Consultant. The Project Coordination team, or its successor, will
continue to assist the central management of the project until the initial seed
capital for the project has, where applicable, been repaid at the close of the
first ten years’ project cycle. The
central committee answers to the independent auditor.
The
central committee appoints a project management team and monitors its
operation.
The
project management team will be expected to operate autonomously from the
moment of its taking office. It will initially be supported during the first
two executive years by the Project Coordination team, with the help of the
General Consultant. The Project Coordination team, or its successor, will
continue to assist the central management of the project until the initial seed
capital for the project has, where applicable, been repaid at the close of the
first ten years’ project cycle
The
tasks of the central committee include:
Nomination
of an independent auditor.
Nomination
of the general management team.
Ownership
and management of the central project offices and depot.
Formal
ownership on trust of all project structures for and on behalf of the various
project organs at the various administrative levels.
Coordination
of ownership and management of
decentralised project structures.
Coordination
and management of all issues for which neither the tank commissions nor the
well commissions are directly responsible.
Liaison
at project level with, and support for, the local social, financial, service,
and productive structures set up.
Settlement
of project-related conflicts.
The
central committee is responsible by default for any project-related service or
obligation for which no specific provision is available in the project
organisation.
The
central committee will comprise 66 members one elected by each well commission.
The
general management team appointed by the central committee may be expected to
include:
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A general manager (chosen for leadership qualities and
vision – need not be literate)
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A general accountant (some technical background) and
trainee.
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A computer specialist (system controller) and trainee.
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Secretarial staff (2) including at least one person
with (some) knowledge of English or French
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Store-persons/drivers (2)
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Guards, two or more, as required.
Cleaning
services, gardener, guards can be supplied externally through cooperatives
operating within the local money systems set up.
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05.16 Creation of the social security
structures.
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05.14 Creation of the well commissions.