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SELF-FINANCING, ECOLOGICAL,
SUSTAINABLE, LOCAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS FOR THE WORLD’S POOR
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Edition 153: 25
January, 2010
HOW THE WORLD’S POOR CAN IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF
LIFE AND MEET THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS.
A MODEL
FOR DEVELOPMENT WITH CREATIVE PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY REDUCTION.
(Click for the Model itself, a
standard project index.)
The Model for self-financing, ecological, sustainable,
local integrated development projects presented provides simple, down-to-earth
practical solutions to poverty- and
development-related problems. It 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.
Social, financial, productive and service structures 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. The Model itself is a project index. Each item in the index is
linked to a sample file. The Model is in the public domain and can be used by
all free of charge.
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.
FREE ON-LINE
E-LEARNING COURSE FOR THE DIPLOMA IN INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT (DIP. INT. DEV.)
A full-year e-learning course at post-masters level for the Diploma in Integrated
Development ( Dip. Int. Dev.) is available on-line for use by all.
Anyone interested can follow the full course free of charge. The Diploma in
Integrated Development ( Dip. Int. Dev.) itself is awarded only to students
following the course with tutor support, against payment for tutorship on a
costs-recovery basis. Diploma graduates qualify to lead integrated development
projects and to train others.
Just reading the course material provides full information on the
concepts and methods the Model is based on.
NEW HORIZONS FOR ECONOMICS:
HOW OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM ACTUALLY WORKS
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 work
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. Photographs,
drawings, illustrations, charts and graphs can be viewed "on
demand".
Search engines rank this website as a leading resource on a wide range
of development-related issues.
View rankings using your preferred search engine.
"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,
This work is
licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non-commercial Share-Alike 3.0 Licence.