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## MODEL FOR SUSTAINABLE SELF-FINANCING INTEGRATED RURAL AND POOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT FOR THE WORLD'S POOR

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.

| Partner 1….. | Partner 2…..
Full legal name |  |
Nationality |  |
Legal status |  |
Official address |  |
Contact person |  |
Telephone number |  |
Fax number |  |
E-mail |  |
Number of employees |  |
History of cooperation with the applicant |  |
Experience of similar actions, in relation to the role in the implementation of the proposed action |  |
Role and involvement in preparing the proposed action |  |
Role and involvement in implementing the proposed action |  |

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.

##### Statement of partnership

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.

Title of the Action |
Name: |
Organisation: |
Position: |
Signature: |
Date and place: |

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.

| Co-donor 1….. | Co-donor 2…..
Full legal name |  |
Nationality |  |
Legal status |  |
Official address |  |
Contact person |  |
Telephone number |  |
Fax number |  |
E-mail |  |
History of cooperation with the applicant |  |
Role and involvement in the proposed action |  |

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.

Title of the Action |
Name : |
Organisation: |
Position: |
Signature : |
Date and place: |

Documents for funding applications

Complete index of the Model.

Main menu for the Model.

List of drawings and graphs.
Typical list of maps.
List of key words.
List of abbreviations used.

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