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SELF-FINANCING, ECOLOGICAL, SUSTAINABLE,
LOCAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS FOR THE WORLD’S POOR
Edition
145: 10 December, 2008
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HOW POOR PEOPLE CAN IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE
AND MEET THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS.
THERE’S A SPECIAL MENU FOR YOU IF YOU ARE:
An international or national
development organisation, donor, or micro-credit institution.
A university, research institute or
student.
A development aid professional (the
work specially benefits women! )
An individual who cares and wants to
make a difference.
A MODEL FOR DEVELOPMENT WITH CREATIVE PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY
REDUCTION
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for the Model itself, a standard project index.)
This innovative website provides simple,
down-to-earth practical solutions to
poverty- and development-related problems. Section
6 of the Model sets out step by step how the solutions are put into
effect. By following the steps, users can draft their
own advanced ecological sustainable local
integrated development projects and apply for their seed financing. The
social, financial, productive and service structures described in section 5 of the Model are
set up in a critical order of sequence and carefully integrated with each
other. That way, cooperative, interest-free, inflation-free local economic environments are
formed in project areas. Local
initiative and true competition are then free to flourish there.
NEW HORIZONS FOR DEVELOPMENT: SOME SHORT POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS
MORE ON SOME BASIC ISSUES COVERED BY THE MODEL:
NATIONAL AND REGIONAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PLANS COST A FEW EUROCENTS
PER PERSON.
The Model makes the drafting of fully detailed national or regional integrated
development plans to meet nearly all of
the Millennium goals quick, easy, and cheap. How quickly the plans are
prepared depends on the number of people (usually students or active members of
grass-roots NGOs) and the number of individual projects (about 20 for each
million inhabitants) involved. The maximum period for plan preparation is about
three months, the minimum period one month. Plans involving populations over
10.000.000 cost about 2.5 eurocents ( €
0.025) per person. Smaller plans involving up to 1.000.000 inhabitants
may cost up to 15 eurocents ( € 0.15) per person, depending on population
spread and the size of the project
areas.
National and regional plans involve the
drafting of individual project documentations under the Model for each area
with about 50.000 inhabitants in the country or region. Their preparation has
practical advantages. Authors of the individual project documentations receive
direct personal hands-on training on the application of the principles behind
the Model, so that they qualify to act as coordinators for the projects they
have drafted. Another advantage is that the financiers of the plans, the costs
of which vary from about € 100.000 to
€ 300.000 depending on the
populations, get to know the local grass-roots NGOs involved. Successful
preparation of the national or regional plan should make it easier for the same
financiers to contribute to the cost of pilot projects in the poorest areas
covered by the plan.
CONVERSION OF TRADITIONAL PROJECT STRUCTURES INTO FULLY SUSTAINABLE ONES
Many existing development projects have already
failed or risk failure because they are not fully sustainable over a longer
term. This is often due to the lack of an appropriate framework of enabling
social, financial, and productive structures fully covering on-going management
and maintenance costs and long-term replacements of capital goods.
The social, financial, productive and service
structures foreseen in section 5 of the
Model can be built around structures set up under traditional projects to
create cooperative, interest-free, inflation-free local economic environments in the
project areas. This way several thousand job
opportunities can be created in each project area and large amounts of
on-going formal money costs saved.
On-going financial leakage from project areas, typical of traditional
development projects, is blocked. The small amount of formal money reaching the
project areas is retained and continually
recycled there.
WEBSITE DESIGN
This website has been designed especially to
help professionals working under difficult conditions in developing countries.
Communications there are often expensive, and telephone lines and computer
equipment for internet connections slow. Web-pages with pop-ups and
audio-visual or moving images consume extra, costly, energy. Website texts are
therefore presented here on a plain background. First-line files are always
simple text files, to speed up navigation within the website. The many
photographs, drawings, illustrations, charts and graphs included in the website
material can all be viewed "on demand". The Model for self-financing, ecological,
sustainable, local integrated development projects itself is a project index. Each item on the index is
linked to a sample file. The Model is in the public domain. It is available for
use free of charge under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Licence.
"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,
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