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STICHTING BAKENS VERZET

1018 AM AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

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

 

 


KIOGORO  INTEGRATED SELF-FINANCING RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

 

KIOGORO DIVISION IN KISII CENTRAL DISTRICT IN THE REPUBLIC OF  KENYA

INCORPORATING LETS AND COMMUNITY BANKING

 

(partnership applications invited)

 

and

NGO STICHTING BAKENS VERZET, WIERINGERWERF, NETHERLANDS


"Money is not the key that opens the gates of the market but the bolt that bars them"

 

Gesell, Silvio The Natural Economic Order

Revised English edition, Peter Owen, London 1958, page 228

 

 

“Poverty is created scarcity”

Wahu Kaara, point 8 of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th annual NGO Conference, United Nations, New York 7th September 2005.


 (Edition 02 : 10th July, 2008)


 

 

04.00 PROJECT GOALS AND EXPECTED RESULTS 

 

04.11 PARTIES INVOLVED IN PROJECT EXECUTION. 

FOR A DRAWING SHOWING THE PROJECT STRUCTURES SELECT:

DRAWING OF STRUCTURES
AUDITING STRUCTURES
CASH FLOW DIAGRAM.
HOW THE ORIGINAL SEED LOAN MONEY IS USED.
TANK COMMISSIONS - THE KEY STRUCTURES.
WELL COMMISSIONS

The responsibilities of the various parties which would presumably be involved in the project are:

 

04.11.01 THE PARTNER NGOs.

NGOs, led by  (name), who are interested in underwriting or joining a partnership for the promotion of the project, analyse and where necessary improve the project documents, approve them and sign a partnership declaration with an indication of the contribution (by way of gift or by way of interest-free loan) they intend to make to the project costs. Each partner nominates a member to the ad-hoc committee of project partnership members.

 

04.11.02 THE AD-HOC COMMITTEE OF PROJECT PARTNERSHIP MEMBERS.

The ad-hoc committee is made up of one person nominated by each of the members of the partnership of NGOs set up to promote the project. The committee acts on behalf of the partner NGOs to set up 04.11.02 THE LOCAL NGO "KIOGORO INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT” FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE PROJECT.

 Once the named NGO is operative, the ad-hoc committee has completed its task and is dissolved. 

The ad-hoc committee may also choose set up the LOCAL NGO "COOPERATIVE  FOR KIOGORO” FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF THE PROJECT STRUCTURES. It may also choose to leave this task to the NGO "KIOGORO INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT”

 

04.11.03 THE LOCAL NGO "KIOGORO INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT” FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE PROJECT

The NGO Kiogoro Integrated Development Project officially fronts for the project. It is formally constituted by a partnership of founding NGO’s. Its founding members  are respected and accepted by the population in the project area and enjoys their confidence. The NGO Kiogoro Integrated Development Project has (number) board members. They are paid, where necessary, by the founding members of the NGO who nominate them.

External financing parties other than founding members of the NGO may nominate their representatives (paid ,where necessary, by the financing parties themselves) to the on-going auditing commission set up for the purpose of monitoring project progress.

The board of the NGO has approved the project. [It has presented it for supplementary financing within the framework of (a country programme (name) supported by a donor government (name)) (the financing facility in question) . ]

The NGO holds the project funds in one or more capital accounts in the name of  the Project New Horizons for Kiogoro, as is set out in the drawing of the bank structures.

The NGO sets up the NGO "COOPERATIVE  FOR KIOGORO”  for the on-going management of the project structures if the ad-hoc committee has not already done so.

The NGO nominates the project coordinator and transfers project funds project funds from time to time from the capital account(s) to executive accounts in the name of the Kiogoro Integrated Development Project as provided in "THE STATUTES OF THE NGO KIOGORO INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT” . Payments are either made or put at the free and unconditional disposal of the Project Coordinator as provided in those statutes.

The NGO may not interfere in the execution of the project, except to carry out its auditing and monitoring duties.

The NGO nominates (eventually together with external financing parties) the commission for on-going audit of project activities. The commission for on-going audit answers to the board of the NGO and to the independent auditor.

The NGO nominates an independent auditor for periodic and final audits.

The chairman of the NGO countersigns with the Project Coordinator  payments out of the Project’s executive accounts for a value between € 5.000 and   €15.000. Payments over €15.000 must be specifically authorised by the Board of Directors of the NGO. Payments under € 5.000 are made independently by the project coordinator.

At the request of the project coordinator, the NGO transfers ownership and management of project structures to the NGO "COOPERATIVE  FOR KIOGORO”  as the structures are set up in the course of project execution and become operative.

 

04.11.04 THE LOCAL NGO "COOPERATIVE  FOR KIOGORO”  FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF THE PROJECT STRUCTURES.

The NGO Cooperative New Horizons for Kiogoro is set up by the ad-hoc committee, or if that committee chooses not to do so, by the NGO "KIOGORO INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT”  

All adults living in the project area are automatically members of the NGO Cooperative for Kiogoro. They elect the various organs of the NGO as described in detail in the STATUTES OF THE COOPERATIVE  FOR KIOGORO  and in the project documents. The elective organs of the NGO are organised in three levels each with its own carefully prescribed tasks.

 

04.11.05 THE PROJECT COORDINATOR. 

The project coordinator is responsible, together with the general consultant, for the project preparation, for contacts with local authorities and banks and with the users, for the actual implementation of the project. The project coordinator  is also responsible for all professional work or operations that cannot, at the time of the project, be provided from within the local communities. The project coordinator  is responsible for the operation and maintenance of all project structures until they are transferred by the  KIOGORO INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT  to the  COOPERATIVE FOR KIOGORO.

The project coordinator operates executive bank accounts in the name of the Project independently for amounts up to € 5.000. Payments between € 5.000 and €15.000 are co-signed by the Chairman of the Board of the NGO KIOGORO INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT  Payments over €15.000 must be expressly authorised by that Board.

The fees of the project coordinator have been agreed and are formalised in  section 07.10 budget documents.

The project coordinator has exclusive control over formal currency funds deposited by the project in the Cooperative Local Development Fund.

Curriculum COORDINATOR.

 

04.11.06 THE GENERAL CONSULTANT (Terry Manning). 

The general consultant is responsible for formulating the project, initial coordination with the NGO Africa A.H.E.A.D., initial contacts for setting up the Organizational Workshops, for the organisation (through the Workshops) of the local money LETS systems, setting up a Micro Credit system, coordinating with the gypsum composites specialist in setting up local gypsum composites production units, delivering pumps, PV-panels and related materials needed to implement the project. He will act as consultant to the Project Coordinator (through the Workshops) for the training and supervision of water supply, water quality and hygiene control and maintenance personnel identified during the Workshops.

Curriculum Terry Manning

 

04.11.07 ORGANISATIONAL WORKSHOPS

BIBLIOGRAPHY
ORGANIZATION WORKSHOPS

Most activities will be executed by the local people themselves. Organizational workshops (mass capacitation workshops or OW's) following the method of the Brazilian Clodomir Santos de Morais will be held for the various sectors of activity involved. During the workshops the users will organise themselves respecting the principles of the division of labour.

Amongst the activities for which Organizational Workshops will be held are:

Setting up Health Clubs.
Setting up Tank- and Well-commissions and the central project management unit.
Setting up the local money (LETS) systems.
Setting up gypsum composites production units.
Setting up structures for the water supply systems.
Setting up structures for the sanitation systems.
Setting up structures for the growing of bio-mass to fuel high efficiency stoves.
Setting up the Cooperative Local Development Fund and the interest-free micro-credit system.
Setting up the waste recycling system.
Setting up structures for rainwater harvesting.
Setting up the local radio station.
Setting up export-import cooperatives.
Setting up a net-work of local agrarian consultants.

The costs of the Workshops are set out separately in the balance sheet.

The Organizational workshops will typically directly involve about 6.000-7.000 users representing some 10% of the adult population.

 

04.11.08 (EXTERNAL FUNDING AUTHORITY – NAME IF KNOWN)

The external funding authority (NAME IF KNOWN)  will, on acceptance of the application of the AD-HOC COMMITTEE OF PROJECT PARTNERSHIP MEMBERS , or of the NGO KIOGORO INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT” as the case may be,  make available its [%] share of the grant or  interest-free loan necessary for the project by way of payment into a capital account in Euros in the name of the KIOGORO INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.

 

04.11.09 LOCAL FUNDING BY THE LOCAL POPULATION

Local funding for 25% of the project budget is paid by the local population through conversion of its contribution in work at the rate of Euro 3 for each 8 hours working day. The total expected contribution is (number) of working days, representing (number of hours) work. The number of  hours’ work and the value of the contribution is set out item by item in the project budget.

 

04.11.10 THE NYANZA PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY

The Nyanza Provincial Assembly will be an enabling body only. It will guarantee the continuity of the local currency (LETS) systems. Before the project begins, it will guarantee transfer of ownership of the project to the local communities subject to reversion of ownership to the project in case of default in payments. It will ensure, by agreement with the Central Government, that goods imported for the project come into (the project’s host country) Duty Free.

 

04.11.11 LOCALLY ELECTED MP'S  (names)

The local MPs will do everything in their power to guarantee respect by the national, regional and local administrative authorities the continuity of the local currency (LETS) systems, the importation of goods destined for the project without the application of customs duties taxes or other formal levies, and the transfer of the project structures to the users.

They will act as liaison points between the Project Coordinator on the one hand and the local political institutions on the other. They may take full political credit for the project, but will agree not to otherwise intervene in its organisation, implementation or day to day running.

 

04.11.12 THE KISII  DISTRICT COUNCIL

The Kisii district council will formally approve the project. It will act as an enabling body. It may take full political credit for the project implementation, but will not otherwise intervene in the organisation, implementation or day to day running of the project. It will guarantee and respect decisions of the vested authorities in relation to ownership of the project goods and services, and fully support the local currency (LETS) systems and the duty-free entry into the project area of goods to be used in the project.

The council will approve reasonable project proposals for laying and embedding water pipelines to dedicated water tanks, drilling bore holes, digging wells, locating and building sanitation facilities, siting of Gypsum composites  manufacturing units, siting of, and collection of rubbish by, recycling centres.

 

04.11.13 THE KIOGORO RURAL AREA COUNCIL

The Kiogoro rural area council will formally approve the project. It will act as an enabling body. It may take full political credit for the project implementation, but will not otherwise intervene in the organisation, implementation or day to day running of the project. It will guarantee and respect decisions of the vested authorities in relation to ownership of the project goods and services, and fully support the local currency (LETS) systems and the duty-free entry into the project area of goods to be used in the project.

The council will approve reasonable project proposals for laying and embedding water pipelines to dedicated water tanks, drilling bore holes, digging wells, locating and building sanitation facilities, siting of Gypsum composites  manufacturing units, siting of, and collection of rubbish by, recycling centres.

 

04.11.14 THE LOCAL (PROVINCIAL?) HEALTH AUTHORITIES

The local health authorities are responsible for health services in the project area.. They will respect the administrative decisions taken by the Provincial Government relating to the Project and will approve of the use of their own Health Workers within the framework of the Community Health Clubs' hygiene education programme to be set up by Africa A.H.E.A.D.

They have read and have approved section  05.62 Health aspects of the project.

The health authorities (will approve, have approved) that their health workers be paid in the local LETS currencies for any work not already covered under their existing salaries.

They (will approve, have approved) that ownership of drinking water facilities, sanitation services where supplied, PV lighting, PV refrigeration, and water testing equipment placed in clinics within the project area be vested in the tank commissions in whose areas the clinics are situated.

They support hygiene education courses in schools in the project area.

They (will reach, have reached) an agreement with the project coordinator to ensure training of (women) users at on-going checks of water quality, and systematic inspections of the sanitation facilities built within the framework of the project. Testing and inspection work not already included within the Health Workers' salaries will be paid for in the local LETS currencies. The equipment for conducting such systematic water quality tests will be made available under the project to a local clinic or hospital and financed by testing work carried out by the clinic for third parties outside of the project area.

PV lighting, sanitation where needed and refrigeration for medicines for the clinics in the project area would be paid for by the communities as they do for drinking water facilities dedicated to the clinics and schools in the project area. Ownership would in this case be vested in the tank commission in whose territory the clinic is located. PV lighting and refrigeration installations in clinics outside the project area serving users inside the project area need to be separately discussed. The disposal, where required, of specialised waste from clinics will be addressed separately.

The health authorities will train make regular hygiene inspections of the local recycling centres.

 

04.11.15 THE LOCAL (PROVINCIAL?) EDUCATION AUTHORITIES

The education authorities have read and have approved section 05.63 Education of the project.

The education authorities (will approve, have approved) that ownership of drinking water and sanitation facilities and PV lighting placed in schools within the project area be vested in the tank commissions where the schools are located. They (will also approve, have approved) that the teachers' commissions nominated to operate water and sanitation services and PV lighting report to the local tank commissions.

They support hygiene education courses in the schools in the project area and approve the reasonable course curriculum presented by the Project Coordinator and apply it during normal school hours.

 

04.11.16 THE LOCAL TAX AUTHORITIES

The Project Coordinator will reach a binding agreement with the tax authorities, before the Project gets under way, to ensure that the tax authorities are not deprived of current tax revenue.

The project is based on a tax moratorium of at least 20 years on all LETS activities.

The tax authorities will define LETS activities carried out in LETS currencies under the project as non-commercial, and therefore non-taxable.

 

04.11.17 THE COOPERATIVE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FUND AND MICRO-CREDIT INSTITUTION

 

The Cooperative Local Development Fund is described in section 05.22 Interest-free cooperative micro-credit structures of the project. It will administer project funds contributed on a monthly basis by the local inhabitants. It forms part of the structures operated on three levels by the COOPERATIVE FOR KIOGORO. It will NOT intervene in the decisions relating to the granting of the loans. These are made by the inhabitants themselves according to the rules they set up during the micro-credits workshop.

All shares in the Cooperative Local Development Fund are held by the COOPERATIVE FOR KIOGORO  on trust for the people of the project area. The capital in the fund is in principle inalienable. It is used to finance micro-credit loans for the people themselves, to pay on-going formal money operation and maintenance costs, to repay (where necessary) any ten year interest-free seed loans, and to cover further formal money extensions to project structures. 

 

04.11.18 THE LOCAL GYPSUM COMPOSITE PRODUCTION UNITS

These units will make, with a sanitary finish where necessary, ecological items such as water tanks, water containers, well-linings, san-plats in low cost labour intensive production units with up to 100% local value added. They will also make the high efficiency stoves and solar cookers. The Project will finance them on an interest-free basis with a pay-back period of 3-5 years.  These costs are itemised in the project budget.  They will operate autonomously. They will usually sell their products within the project area in the local LETS currency, and a specified maximum percentage of their production outside the project area in formal currency. Precedence will be given to making items of top priority to the Project. Ownership of the production units passes to the cooperative factory owners after construction, subject to reversionary rights of the project in case of default in repayments. Until full repayment the cooperative factory owners answer to the Project Coordinator.

 

04.11.19 TANK COMMISSIONS

TANK COMMISSIONS - THE KEY STRUCTURES.

Every water tank supplies an area or group of households with water. A tank commission, elected by the users, will supervise the use of the tank and its associated works, the collection of the monthly contributions and the carrying out of minor operations such as keeping tank areas clean. Each tank commission will be paid a small monthly fee in formal currency, equivalent to perhaps Euro 5 per month, which it is free to spend as it wishes. Since women enjoy the greatest benefits from the execution and on-going management of the project, they should provide most of the tank commission members.

The tanks commissions will be set up using the Moraisian organisational workshop method. Their form may vary from one are of the area to another.

The tank commissions will nominate one of their members to liaise with the system maintenance structures set up.

The tank commissions would also be responsible for study rooms and PV lighting and for coordination of recycling in their area.

They will nominate a literate person to liaise with the local LETS system coordinator.

The drinking water installations and sanitation services dedicated to schools and clinics will be supervised by commissions of respectively teachers and medical staff who will report to the tank commissions where the schools and clinics are located. Ownership of these installations will be vested in the local tank commissions with the consent of the local Education and Health authorities. The costs of loan repayment and maintenance of these installations are built into the users' monthly payments.

PV lighting, PV refrigeration, and water testing equipment supplied to clinics in the project area would likewise be run by the medical commission supervising the water supply. Ownership of these structures will be vested, with the consent of the Health Authorities, in the tank commissions where the clinics located. The medical commission will report to the local tank commission.

The problem of specialist waste removal from clinics, where needed, will need to be studied separately.

The tank commissions will also convene regular meetings to discuss activities under their local LETS system and priorities for micro-credits.

The tank commissions will elect the well commissions.

The tank commissions will nominate a female candidate from their own area to carry out cooperative inspection of the sanitation, rainwater harvesting, and cooking facilities installed, and arrange for her training.

 

04.11.20 WELL COMMISSIONS

WELL COMMISSIONS

Every well/bore hole area comprises:
- The well or bore hole itself
- The backup hand pump installation
- The washing area
- The enclosure for PV systems and supports
- A guard system for the PV installations

The well commission, elected by the tank commissions, supervises the use of the structures common to the water supply system, and carries out minor maintenance operations such as cleaning washing areas, well areas, and backup hand pump systems. The well commission also regulates use of the well area in case of crisis or calamity. It collectively receives a small monthly payment in the local LETS currency (e.g. the equivalent of Euro 5 per month) which it is free to spend as it wishes. Since women enjoy the greatest benefits from the execution and on-going management of the project, they should provide most of the well commission members.

The well commission will nominate one of its members to liaise with the system maintenance structures set up and with those responsible at tank commission level for maintenance.

The well commissions will nominate a female candidate from their own area to monitor the cooperative inspection of the sanitation, rainwater harvesting, and cooking facilities carried out at tank commission level, and arrange for her training.

The well commissions elect the central project management unit.

 

04.11.21 AFRICA A.H.E.A.D.

This NGO originally from Zimbabwe and for political reasons now operating under the name Africa AHEAD will adapt and supply the material for the Health Clubs

BASIC COURSE FOR HEALTH CLUBS

The Community Health Clubs will be set up, and local health workers trained to lead the hygiene education courses during a Moraisian organizational workshop.

A hygiene education course for use in the schools in the project area will be developed the same way, and health workers and teachers trained to apply it.

 

04.11.22 THE GYSPUM COMPOSITES SPECIALIST

A gypsum composites specialist will be invited to participate as consultant during the Organization Workshop during which the local gypsum composite  production units in the project area will be set up. .

 

04.11.23 MEDICAL COMMISSIONS

Medical commissions will supervise installations supplied to clinics under the project. They will report to the tank commission where the clinic is situated. They will where required arrange with the Project Management for collection of special medical waste products.

 

04.11.24 TEACHERS COMMISSIONS

Teachers commissions will supervise drinking water and lighting installations supplied to schools under the project.

They will support and apply the approved hygiene education courses in the schools.

They will report to the tank commissions where the school is located.

 

04.11.25 THE AUDITING COMMISSION

The auditing commission is set up by the NGO KIOGORO INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT to monitor project progress. It will have a member nominated by each member of the Board of Directors of the NGO Kiogoro Integrated Development Project. The members are paid (if required) by the partner on whose behalf they are nominated. The commission has full powers of inspection.

The auditing commission answers to the Board of Directors of the NGO Kiogoro Integrated Development Project and to the independent auditor.

 

04.11.26 THE INDEPENDENT AUDITOR

The Board of Directors of the  NGO KIOGORO INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (eventually operating in agreement with external funding agencies) nominates an independent auditor to supply periodic and final project audits. It controls the  work of the Commission for on-going audit. The independent auditor answers to all project partners, to the Board of Directors of the NGO Kiogoro Integrated Development Project, and to external funding agencies. He/she informs  the auditing commission  and the project coordinator of his/her actions. The independent auditor enjoys full powers of inspection at all project administrative and executive levels.


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