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,
For a
drawing of the institutional structures foreseen refer to:
DRAWING OF STRUCTURES.
CASH FLOW DIAGRAM.
HOW THE ORIGINAL SEED LOAN MONEY IS USED.
THE INTEREST-FREE LOAN CYCLE .
Permanent on-going procedures to maintain and
administer the system will be worked out with the users themselves during
Organization Workshops to be run for this purpose, (with the involvement
of the NGO Bakens Verzet through its
director Terry Manning as consultant for this first pilot project), the project
coordinator, the tanks and wells commissions, and the maintenance and
inspection cooperatives.
The purpose is
to create a "maintenance culture".
Structures to be created include:
social structures,
being the Health Clubs, the tanks commissions, the well commissions and the
project management;
financial structures,
including local money systems and interest-free micro-credit structures for
productivity development;
service structures for
a good basic quality of life, including systems for installation and
maintenance of the drinking water supply system, sanitation and waste recycling
structures;
and productive structures,
including gypsum composite production units, structures for the production of
bio-mass and mini-briquettes for cooking, not to forget the local radio
station.
Diagram showing the main project
structures.
The
users themselves are responsible for the creation of the project structures and
their the execution, running and maintenance. They pay for and own the
structures.
The users will create the structures during a series
of organisational workshops following the method developed by the Brazilian
sociologist Clodomir Santos de Morais.
Bibliography of the work of de Morais.
Information on the work of de Morais.
The project will try to put at the disposal of
the often very large groups involved in the workshops, but ONLY ON REQUEST, the
consultants, materials and equipment necessary for the services and structures
in question. The groups organise themselves (often with great difficulty), set
up their administrative structures, procure the necessary authorisations and
permits, proceed with the construction of factories, and to the production and
sale of their products and services as they consider fit.
Key to the formation of the structures foreseen
in the project is the order in which the workshops are held. It is not possible
to hold workshops to set up the tank commissions (the key project structures) until
a suitable platform has been created to enable women to organise themselves,
express themselves at meetings and actively participate in the project
structures. This is done during the organisation workshop setting up the health
clubs. It is not possible to set up structures for the manufacture of articles
for sanitation purposes if the local money LETS systems making their
production, distribution, sale and installation under local money LETS systems
without the need for formal money until the LETS systems have been established.
The order or sequence for the execution of the
workshops is the following:
Social structures.
5.12 Health clubs.
5.13 Tank commissions
5.14 Well commissions
5.15 Project management structure
5.16 Social security structure.
Financial structures.
5.21 LETS systems.
5.22 Micro-credit systems.
Productive structures
5.41 Gypsum composite production units.
5.42 Units for the production of min-briquettes.
5.43 Production of bio-mass for mini-briquettes.
Service structures
5.31 Drinking water structures.
5.33 Recycling systems.
5.34 Lighting etc.
5.35 Smoke hazards.
5.36 Education.
5.37 Rainwater harvesting.
5.38 Reforestation.
Other productive structures as listed in section 5.40
of the index.
The workshops represent a general mobilisation of the
population, with an active participation of at least 6000-7000 people out of a
total of 80.000, representing about 10% of the active adult population.
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