Stichting Bakens Verzet (NGO “Another Way”)
1018 AM Amsterdam, Netherlands
Reg.nr.
34235506 Chamber of Commerce/KvK
BTW/VAT nr.
NL8150.17.972 B01
Bank: Triodos Bank
: IBAN NL90 TRIO 078.13.27.598
Direction
T.E.(Terry) Manning
Schoener 50, 1771 ED Wieringerwerf, The
Tel 0031-227-604128;
E-mail: (nameatendofline)@xs4all.nl; Homepage: http://www.flowman.nl : bakensverzet
Edition 109: 04 February, 2008
"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,
"In the end, it's about love for mankind. Freedom begins with love.
Our challenge is to learn to love the world"
Nigerian writer Ben Okri, interview in Ode Magazine, Dec 2002-Jan 2003,
p.49
MODEL FOR SELF-FINANCING ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABLE INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS FOR THE WORLD’S POOR
This is the website
homepage of Stichting Bakens Verzet (“NGO
Another Way”), Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
THIS WEBSITE IS FOR:
Other
non-governmental organisations involved in development, poverty reduction,
drinking water, sanitation and hygiene education projects.
Universities,
research institutes and students.
Development
aid professionals (especially women).
Individuals
who care and want to make a difference.
The standard menu which follows is intended for
all website visitors. Visitors may also click on the target group of their
choice to enter a more specialist menu .
PURPOSE
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. Website texts are therefore presented
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 sustainable 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.
CREATIVE PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS
TO POVERTY REDUCTION
This innovative website 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 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.
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 because an appropriate framework of enabling social,
financial, and productive structures under which management and maintenance
costs and long-term replacements of capital goods can be carried out is
missing.
The social, financial, productive and service
structures foreseen in 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 employment 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, wherever possible, retained and continually recycled there.
A LEADING RESOURCE ON A
Most internet search engines (including Google
®, Alltheweb ®, and Live ®) and meta-search instruments rank this website as
one of the world’s leading resources on sustainable integrated development for
the world’s poorest. Top rankings (often multiple) cover a wide range of
subjects, often out of tens of millions of hits. Special reference is made to
search results for the innovative
structural and economic solutions to development issues presented. The
Alltheweb ® results indicate the website may be considered the world’s leading
resource in its field.
This website supplies material for many
hundreds, sometimes thousands, of downloads per day. Material can be downloaded
file by file. It is not possible to
foresee all the file combinations of
possible interest to readers. For convenience, some common combinations have
been grouped in zip-file folders in the
section some options for group file downloads.
MORE:
MODEL FOR ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABLE INTEGRATED
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS FOR THE WORLD’S POOR.
Google ® search results
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Alltheweb ® search
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Some options for group
file downloads.
Letskring Wier (Wieringerlands interactief economisch
ruilsysteem. (In Dutch)
About Stichting Bakens Verzet (NGO Another
Way).
This work is
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share
Alike 3.0 Licence.
Bakens Verzet is a member of the One
World network.