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Manning,
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The
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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,
The establishment of a local radio station is an
integral part of the project. The station is a part of the management of
communications cncerning 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.
Without influencing this independence in any way,
the programme could indicatively coprise the following elements:
(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 mcro-credits conceded
(b) Transmissions by interest groups
- Initiatives the groups wish to take
- Information on itiatives 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 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.
Capacitation workshop for the radio station:
Indicative participation
The Moraisian trainers
A member of the project coordination team
General Consultant
At least one representative of the ONG Project New Horizons for Kiogoro
Representative of the Ministry of Communications
At least 5 observers (possible coordinators for
future projects)
20 persons indicated by the tank commissions
interested in participating in the management of the station.
50 persons indicated by the tank commissions, interested in producing
programmes for 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
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