STICHTING BAKENS VERZET

1018 AM AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

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

 


MODEL FOR SELF-FINANCING  ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABLE INTEGRATED RURAL AND POOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

 FOR THE WORLD'S POOR.

Sustainable fully ecological poverty alleviation in rural and poor urban environments, incorporating an innovative package of social, financial, and productive structures, with basic services necessary for a good quality of life for all, a leading role for women, and  renewable energy applications.

 


 

"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, London 1958, page 228.

 

 

“Poverty is created scarcity”

Wahu Kaara, point 8 of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th annual NGO Conference, United Nations, New York 7th September 2005.

 

 


 

Edition 34: 28 January, 2008.

 


 

Creative Commons License


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Licence

 


(EN FRANÇAIS)


YOU MAY USE THIS MODEL FREE OF CHARGE

 

This Model for ecological sustainable self-financing integrated development projects for the world’s poor is the intellectual property of  the NGO Stichting Bakens Verzet, 1018 AM Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Model has been placed in the public domain. It is available for bona-fide non-commercial use by interested parties free of charge subject to fair citation as follows: 

 “This project has been drafted using the Model for self-financing, ecological, sustainable, integrated development projects for the world’s poor the intellectual property of and made available free of charge by the NGO Stichting Bakens Verzet, 1018 AM, Amsterdam, Netherlands.”

The citation should be included in formal documents, publications, and websites relating to projects drafted under the Model. 

The Model enables interested parties, at their own risk, to draft their own complete self-financing, ecological, sustainable, integrated development projects and make applications for seed finance to cover their costs.

NGO Stichting Bakens Verzet will, on request, prepare draft projects under the Model and funding applications for them on the basis of information supplied by the interested parties. For this service interested parties must raise and pay in advance a fair  (but modest) contribution towards the out of pocket costs of the preparation of the project documents.

 

PROTECTION OF THE MODEL

 

This Model has a high social and moral value, which must be maintained and protected.  The Model cannot itself substitute for poor quality project preparation and management. Projects prepared by third parties under the Creative Commons Licence must therefore be submitted for review free of charge by Stichting Bakens Verzet before implementation.  Reviewed projects together with review comments may be published at the sole discretion of Stichting Bakens Verzet at this website.  Project review will take place within 30 working days of receipt of the project documents. ( For contact information, see above)

ONG Bakens Verzet reserves all rights of action in any way deriving from illegal, abusive or incompetent project implementation of any project under this Model directly or indirectly bringing this Model into disrepute.  The law applicable is that of  the Netherlands.  The competent court is that of Amsterdam, Netherlands.  

 


 

FOLLOW THE MODEL

 

The model is built into your main project index.  The index leads you step by step through the preparation of your own self-financing, ecological, sustainable integrated development project. The files in the index contain possible texts for  your project. You may be able to use some of them without making many changes.  Where necessary,  the texts have to be changed to suit the needs of the people living in your project area.

The model programme, your project index,  is divided into several sections. All the sections put together form your project.

You can complete the sections of the programme in any order.

You can complete the files within each section in any order.

The main project index gives you an overview of  your project files. The files are interlinked to help you find your way from one project document to another. You, and others interested in your work, can directly open any file, including  the ones listed in the following groups. Some files may appear in several of the  groups.

 


 

MORE INFORMATION : SOME USEFUL GROUPS OF FILES

 

Short introductions to your project and instructions on how to get started.

Short summaries, including an executive summary, with basic information on your project.  This group of files includes instructions on how to get a project started. It also contains an illustration of the formalities necessary to set up project execution.

 

Illustrations of your project structures.

Charts, drawings and diagrams illustrating the main features of your project. They are available both in English and in French.

 

Fund-raising and your funding application.

This section includes some basic tips for fund-raising and a menu of files useful in applying for seed funding for your project.

 

Promotion of your project.

Presentations of your project using Powerpoint and Transparents. This group of files includes course material for local money systems.

 

Service files.

Lists of abbreviations, drawings and illustrations, maps, key words and acknowledgments. This group also includes files with information on the applicant NGO and on the project coordinator, environmental reports, and evidence of the support of local civil society for your project.

 

Attachments to your project documents.

A list of documents with information supporting your project. The list provides extra information on concepts and technologies used in the Model, such as information on the work of the Brazilian sociologist Clodomir Santos de Morais, local money systems, micro-credit systems, some recommended appropriate technologies, and hygiene education courses.

 

Articles published on specific aspects of the Model under which your project has been drafted.

The list includes articles on policy aspects, the use of alternative energy, micro-credits, and drinking water supply.

 

Project working file groups.

The working files are split up into operative sections so that you can work on them. Their names end with the word “work”. To start with, their texts are identical to those proposed in your main project programme. Until you have edited each working file and put it into its final form, you therefore have both an adapted  version (the working file) and the original proposed text (in the index). When you are ready,  you can rename the working file by removing the word “work” from its name and include it in your main project programme.

 


 

This Model for self-financing sustainable integrated development projects is a song of love. It is dedicated to the world’ poor. Your making it popular is the best possible reward for the many years’ work which has gone into writing it. Help Stichting Bakens Verzet ("NGO Another Way") sing it the world over. In all languages.

 


 

                                                                                                                      

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