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
Incorporating
innovative social, financial, economic, local administrative and productive
structures, numerous renewable energy applications, with an important role for
women in poverty alleviation in rural and poor urban environments.
"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
Edition 11: 02
October 2006
Project participants:
Project participants, being the various parties directly and indirectly
involved in the execution of projects under the Model, are not partners within
the terms of the most common guidelines of funding agencies.
A list of involved or
participant parties is included in the documentation for each project.
Partnership:
Partners : Projects under the Model are executed by a Project
Coordinator, who is independent of
the applicant NGO and acts as “government”, with a small team of
specialists. The local populations participate fully in project execution for
about 25% of the formal money value of each project. The applicant NGO itself acts as “parliament” to monitor
on-going project activities. It reports to an auditing commission (which may
include donor and civil population representatives and which has wide
investigative powers ) which in turn reports and to an independent auditor.
As a result of
this innovative project structure, which is quite different from that used for
traditional projects, it is unlikely the applicant NGO have partners jointly
responsible for project execution within the meaning of “partnership” as it is
used by most international funding agencies. An applicant NGO is more likely to
use executive services made available by other, local. NGO’s with
specialisation in specific project activities and who are able to support the
Project Coordinator as “specialists”.
In this role, the NGO’ s in question act as “associates” within the
definition of this term used by most funding organisation. Associates are named
in the project documentation and their tasks are defined. However, they do not
share formal responsibility for project execution the way partners do.
PARTNERS/Co-donors OF THE APPLICANT PARTICIPATING IN THE
ACTION
1. Description of the
partners
This section must be
completed for each partner organisation within the meaning of section (number)
of the (funding agency’s) Guidelines for Applicants. You must make as many
copies of this table as necessary to create entries for more partners.
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Telephone number |
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History of cooperation with the applicant |
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Experience of similar actions, in relation to the role in
the implementation of the proposed action |
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Role and involvement in preparing the proposed action |
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Role and involvement in implementing the proposed action |
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Important:
1.
This
application form must be accompanied by a signed and dated partnership
statement from every partner, in accordance with the models provided on the
next page.
2.
Partners
who are also providing co-financing do have to sign and date the co-donor
statement as well.
2.
Partnership statement[1]
A partnership is a
relationship of substance between two or more organisations involving shared
responsibilities in undertaking the action funded by the (funding agency). To
ensure that the action runs smoothly, the (funding agency) requires
all partners (including the lead applicant that signs the contract) to
acknowledge this by agreeing to the principles of good partnership practice set
out below.
Principles of Good Partnership
Practice
1.
All partners must have read the application form and understood what
their role in the action will be before the application is submitted to the
(funding agency).
2.
All partners must have read the standard grant contract or contribution
agreement and understood what their respective obligations under the contract
will be if the grant is awarded. They should authorise the lead applicant to
sign the contract with the (funding agency) and represent them in all dealings
with the (funding agency) in the context of the action's implementation.
3.
The applicant must consult regularly with its partners and keep them
fully informed of the progress of the action.
4.
All partners must receive copies of the reports - narrative and
financial - made to the (funding agency).
5.
Proposals for substantial changes to the action (e.g. activities,
partners, etc.) should be agreed by the partners before being submitted to the
(funding agency). Where no such agreement can be reached, the applicant must
indicate this when submitting changes for approval to the (funding agency).
6.
Before the end of the action, the partners should agree on an equitable
distribution of equipment, vehicles and supplies for the action purchased with
the (funding agency) grant among local partners situated in the target
countries. Copies of the transfer titles must be attached to the final report.
We
have read and approved the contents of the proposal submitted to the (funding
agency). We undertake to comply with the principles of good partnership
practice.
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3. Description of the co-donors
Co-donors:
Co-donors : Projects under the Model are executed by a Project
Coordinator, who is independent of
the applicant NGO and acts as “government”, with a small team of
specialists. The local populations participate fully in project execution for
about 25% of the formal money value of each project. The applicant NGO itself acts as “parliament” to monitor
on-going project activities. It reports to an auditing commission (which may
include donor and civil population representatives and which has wide
investigative powers ) which in turn reports and to an independent auditor.
As
a result of this innovative project structure, which is quite different from
that used for traditional projects, the people in the project area themselves
normally self-finance about 25% of the project costs. The financial
participation is not “in kind”. Nor is the work done by generous “volunteers”.
The work carried out by the local populations is actually paid for by the
populations under the local money systems set up in an early phase of the
project. The local money credits earned by those carrying out the activities
are debited to the population in the project area. For the purposes of
expressing this contribution in formal money as a percentage of the project
costs, the credits for services rendered for project execution are converted
into Euros at the conventional rate of Euro 3 for each eight-hour working day.
The rate of conversion, and therefore the percentage participation of the local
populations, is, however, subject
to agreement between applicants and the funding agencies from project to
project. A higher conversion rate will usually lead to a higher percentage
contribution of the local populations.
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Role and involvement in the proposed action |
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4. Co-donor
statement[2]
Important
notice: Partners who are also providing co-financing do have to sign this
co-donor statement as well.
We have read and approved the contents of the proposal
submitted to the (name of funding organisation). We confirm that we will
co-finance the action with an amount of
Tick as appropriate:
This statement is already legally
binding for our organisation.
This statement is going to become
legally binding for our organisation only after the decision of the We
acknowledge that such decision must occur at the latest within four months
from the date of provisional acceptance by the (agency)of the proposal. The
(funding agency) grant will be subject to this pre-condition. Should this
pre-condition not be fulfilled, then the (funding agency’s provisional
acceptance and the related award of grant will be null and void.
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Documents for funding applications
List of
drawings and graphs.
Typical list of maps.
List of key words.
List of abbreviations used.