Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener 50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The Netherlands.
Tel:
0031-227-604128
Homepage:
http://www.flowman.nl
E-mail:
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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,
Basic hygiene education, sanitation, waste recycling, and
clean drinking water are fundamental to healthy life. A third of the world's
population still lacks access to clean drinking water. An even larger number
lack reasonable sanitation.
Improving the health and quality of life of those living in poor communities
depends on improving their basic community infrastructure. Better technology
now allows users living far away from their traditional water sources to have
clean drinking water, sanitation, hygiene education, and on-going local
development at low cost.
Yet much of the world's population is still
without safe sanitation and drinking water.
Supplying such basic life needs warrants top priority within the
framework of foreign aid programmes for the benefit of the poor in developing
countries.
Development of local production and services is
hindered by a chronic lack of money. Local economies have long since been
"drained" of the formal money needed to exchange goods and services
in the present market economy.
The little money there is leaks from the local economy
to national, or more often, international, havens
The project will permanently improve the
quality of life and stimulate on-going local economic development of people who
live in the beneficiary communities. It will establish local exchange trading
(LETS) systems for the exchange of local goods and services and provide
interest-free seed money to fund micro-credit loans. It includes hygiene
education, sanitation, clean drinking water, lighting for study, efficient
cooking equipment and means of producing bio-mass to fuel the stoves as well as
a system for recycling non-organic solid waste. Services include rainwater
harvesting and may in later project phases be extended to the formation of
self-terminating cooperative interest-free purchasing groups for the
installation of selected consumer products, such as Solar Home Systems.
The project area comprises 50 communities with
about 80000 inhabitants. They live in about 8000 extended households. In
general, they have no sanitation, drinking water supply, or hygiene education.
The local authorities are the Nyanza Province of Kenya, the Kisii District
Council, and the Kiogoro council. These authorities together with the national
Health, Education, Rural Development and Finance ministries all offer their
full support to this project to improve the quality of life in the project
area.
The proposed hygiene training, sanitation, and
drinking water systems must take the social structures of the communities into
account. They must all be self-financing and remain financially viable and
sustainable. (Where the project is financed by interest-free seed loans instead
of a grant, the structures must remain financially viable and sustainable
without the need for further seed money once the initial (interest free) loans
have been repaid.)
The project is centred on basic hygiene education, on the installation
of sustainable sanitation, distributed clean drinking water, PV lighting for
study, for all of the people without exclusion in the project area, and on the
supply of efficient stoves for cooking, the production of bio-mass to fuel
them, and recycling at local level and disposal of non-organic waste. It also
extends to improvement of health and education facilities in the project area.
The project includes setting up Community
Health Clubs for hygiene education and hygiene education courses in schools. It
provides sustainable toilet and wastewater facilities, wells and boreholes
(wherever necessary), pumps, and water tanks. It establishes local exchange
trading (LETS) systems to promote local exchange of local goods and services.
It implements an interest-free revolving micro-credit system to help users pay
in formal currency for items and services originating outside the local
communities.
The project also refers to PV (photovoltaic)
lighting for study and in clinics, and PV refrigeration for medicines. Any PV
lighting needed for separate local production initiatives will be brought under
the micro-credit scheme. PV operated TV sets for education can be included on
the decision of the local tank commission. Private Solar Home Systems (SHS) may
be financed under cooperative interest-free purchasing structures where users
are able to sustain those obligations as well as meet their normal monthly contributions
to the Cooperative Local Development Fund.
High efficiency stoves for cooking will be produced
with 100% local value added as will the bio-mass necessary to fuel them.
Where daytime cooking is not in conflict with local
customs, local manufacture of gypsum composite solar cookers will be set up
under the LETS systems.
Recycling centres will be set up to recycle
non-organic waste within the local currency systems.
Small-scale rain-water harvesting to increase
agricultural production and the general quality of life is promoted.
The project cost is
Euro 8,000,000, of which 75% is either provided by a grant or financed
through an interest free loan with a 10 year repayment time.
The remaining 25% is contributed by the local people,
who are themselves responsible for most of the project execution. The people
who do the work are fully paid for their work within the framework of local
money systems set up during an early phase of the project. Local money debits
are distributed amongst the beneficiary population in the project area. The 25%
local money contribution is usually converted into Euros for the purposes of
calculation of the local share in the costs, at the rate of Euro 3 for each
full eight-hour working day. However, this rate may be substitute to variation
in agreement with donors and financing bodies.
07.10 Details of the
project budget.
The project will be continued for at least a further 8
years beyond the initial two years' start-up period. After the initial two
years, further development will be generated by the communities themselves
under the supervision of the Project Coordinator.
The initial project will take 24 months from the date
funding is approved, more particularly:
- Phase 1 : preparation and
submission of the basic project.
- Phase 2 : final project preparation, arrangements with tax authorities; final
project approval; formation of Health Clubs and starting hygiene education; setting up the social and the financial
structures (local currency LETS groups
and micro-credit structures): 6 months.
- Phase 3 : continuing
hygiene education; installing wells
hand-pumps and washing places; starting the organisation of gypsum
composite production units;
tank installations; start
building the sanitation services; starting cooker production, organising
bio-mass production, setting up the recycling centres : 18 months.
- Phase 4 : installing water purification units and PV lighting systems for
study purposes; continued production of cookers and of bio-mass to fuel them.
Rain-water harvesting.
From the third year onwards
local development will be continued and extended to optional phase 5.
- (optional) Phase 5 : Extension to Solar Home
Systems, water harvesting, and soil conservation and reforestation projects.
Next file :
03.02
Drinking water in the project area.
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02.03
List of villages in the project area..