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Edition 08: 26 March, 2009.

Edition 09: 15 August, 2011.

Edition 10: 17 August, 2011.

 

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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. 

Click here to see a new section of the course on how to finance integrated development projects using the CDM mechanisms (Kyoto Protocol)

 

 

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.

03. A powerful general productive mobilisation of the local populations is made possible through the use of the structures created by the project.

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.     

Millennium goals. How integrated development projects achieve them. Powerpoint presentation : 36 slides.

 

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.