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SELF-FINANCING, ECOLOGICAL,
SUSTAINABLE, LOCAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS FOR THE WORLD’S POOR
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Edition 08: 26
March, 2009.
Edition 09: 15
August, 2011.
Edition 10: 17
August, 2011.
MENU FOR OTHER NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED IN DEVELOPMENT
PROJECTS.
CREATIVE
PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY REDUCTION.
This
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.
More
information :
Click here for a very simple summary of a typical
integrated development project.
Click here to see an executive summary
which provides a short analysis of a typical integrated development project.
Click here to see
the Model itself, a standard project index.
Click here to see a full-year e-learning course at
post-masters level for the Diploma in Integrated Development ( Dip. Int. Dev.) The course 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.
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 for integrated development projects 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.
POLICY
IMPLICATIONS.
The structures created during the execution of each project have many
policy implications. These are described in the paper Policy implications of an
innovative model for self-financing ecological sustainable development for the
world's poor.
The
general goals of integrated development projects include:
a) To meet and surpass all of the Millennium
Development Goals in the project area with the exception of vaccinations under
goal 6. Vaccinations and other imported medicines, while valid, in principle
cause financial leakage from the project area. That means less initial capital
is left over for investment in the project structures and/or for on-going
rotation of funds for productive local development there. Finance for
vaccinations and medicines is usually readily available through other aid
channels.
b) To create a cooperative, interest-free,
inflation-free, local economic environment in the project area where individual
initiative and genuine competition are free to flourish.
c) To achieve work for all in the project area
within three years. This includes in principle productive work for the
handicapped, and for the blind in particular.
d) To provide affordable health, sanitation and
drinking water systems created, operated, maintained and financed by the local
populations through project structures which operate entirely, except for the
centralised purchase at project level of some spare parts, under the local
money system set up.
e) To provide a three-tiered social security system
for the needy.
f) To ensure the on-going preparation of women for
participation in democratic structures and decision-making at local, district,
and national levels through active (guaranteed) participation in the project structures.
Integrated development projects are innovative :
01. The creation of enabling social, financial,
productive and service structures as a foundation for integrated development in
project areas is profoundly innovative. The development revolution lies in the
organisation of the proposed project structures. Once the structures are in
place, the local populations will have the instruments available to be able to
take their preferred development initiatives.
02. The critical order of sequence for the creation
of project structures is vital, starting with social structures, using the
social structures to set up the financial structures, then using the financial
structures to set up production units for locally produced items needed for the
service structures, then finally the service structures themselves.
04. The local people themselves plan, execute, run,
manage and pay for all structures. They are assisted during the initial project
execution period by a (very) small team of experts led by a local project
coordinator.
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS.
Integrated development project meet and surpass all
of the millennium goals in each project area, with the exception of
vaccinations under Goal 6.
For more information see :
Millennium Development Goals.
How integrated development projects solve them.
For complete information on how integrated
development projects meet the Millennium Development Goals, see the goal by
goal analysis of the services made
available under integrated development projects. This analysis is part
of the Diploma Course.
Integrated development concepts provide for
powerful on-going development in each project area. For more details click on on-going development.