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,
Refer also to:
TANK COMMISSIONS - THE KEY STRUCTURES.
WELL COMMISSIONS
All activities will be carried out by the users
themselves. The structures are worked out during the organisational workshops foreseen.
The following is what might expect to result from the workshops.
The basic
administrative structure foreseen by the project is the Tank Commission.
The tasks of the Tank
Commission are numerous and include, by way of example,:
- Analysis of the local situation (200 people – 20 extended families)
- Definition of the local issues and problems
- Liaison with the Health Clubs already established
- Liaison with the local currency LETS systems about to be formed
- Organisation of monthly users' meetings
- Identification of the best projects for Micro-credit development loans
- Setting priorities for Micro-credit loans
- Deciding the priorities for positioning the wells and washing places, with
special input from women's groups
- Deciding the positioning of tanks and water pipeline routes
- Deciding priorities for the positioning and installation of sanitation units
- Deciding the pot sizes for stoves and solar cookers
- Liaison with the compost collection and recycling network
- Liaison with the grey water/urine collection and recycling network
- Planning what can be done by the local people themselves at the normal ruling
daily rate of pay (which is usually about Euro 3 per person per day) and what
can be done in the local LETS currency
- Systematically monitoring project progress and on-going administration with
the users' commissions (comprising mostly women)
- Organising daily maintenance of the tank areas, rules of use
- Managing any local disputes relating to the project
- Collection of the monthly contributions to the Cooperative Development Fund
- Nomination of participants to various organisational workshops
- Proposals for the support of families with difficulty in making their
contributions
MORAISIAN WORKSHOPS :
LOCAL SOCIAL STRUCTURES
Two Moraisian workshops will be held. The Tank
Commissions form the basic project structure and the workshops can involve up
to 1000 people.
Indicative
participation (both workshops together) .
The Moraisian
trainers.
A member of the project coordination team.
General Consultant.
Representative of the NGO.
Representative of the Finance Ministry.
Representative of the Rural Development ministry.
At least 5 observers (possible coordinators for future projects).
1500 (mostly female) persons interested in participating with responsibility
for the management of projects structures as members of the Tank Commissions.
Some of these people might be indicated by the traditional chiefs, at least 65%
by the local Health Clubs.
Duration of each workshop:
about four weeks.
The Workshops will be
expected to produce the following structures:
a) Definition of the
social form of the tanks commissions and the well commissions.
- statutes
- rules
- financial aspects
- definition of the tasks
b) Organisation.
- meetings
- use of tanks and well areas
-payment of the tank
commission members once the local money systems have been formed.
c) Coordination.
- with the project coordination team
- (future) local SEL-LETS system
- between local tank commissions and the well commission
- with local schools
- with local clinics/hospitals
- with (future) recycling systems
- with (future) micro-credit structures
d) A communications
structure.
- vertical, at project level (coordinator)
- horizontal, with the +/- 40 local families
e) Individual
initiatives.
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05.14 Creation of the well commissions.
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05.12 Creation of the hygiene education
structures.
