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NGO STICHTING BAKENS VERZET (ANOTHER
WAY)NETHERLANDSMODEL FOR SELF-FINANCING,
ECOLOGICAL, SUSTAINABLE, LOCAL INTEGRATED
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

• Part One
• Causes of poverty and what to do about them.
• (Twenty-four slides)

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1. Poverty

• "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, New
  York 7th September 2005.
• The subjective definition of poverty used by the
  authors of this Model is
• Poverty is a state in which one's perceived
  quality of life is
• lower than is felt to be needed for survival
  and reproduction,
• or than is desired.

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2. Some factors related to poverty

• Monetisation and the economy.
• Where is the value-added in a can of peas?
• Efficiency and length of the production chain.
• Inefficiency of marketing, packaging and
  transport.
• Role of money catalyst.
• No catalyst, no transaction.
• Financial leakage.
• The most important single cause of poverty is
  on-going financial leakage from poor areas to
  richer ones.

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3. Financial leakage interest and subisdyWe
live in a society based on debt where most new
money is created by private bankers against
interest.In 2001, farmers in industrialised
countries received agricultural subsidies for US
350 billion. This is more than three times the
total amount of aid for development (including
debt relief) paid by all the OECD donor countries
together in 2006 (US 103,9 billion).

• The interest factor built into prices
• Final user borrowing.
• What happens to the interest?
• Migration of payment for the bona-fide content of
  a transaction.
• Migration of the interest content of a
  transaction.
• Migration of local savings.
• Lack of means to transfer goods.
• Interest built into the cost of necessary
  imported goods and services.
• The principle of divide and rule
• Monopolistic control monoculture.
• Subsidy to offset the parasitic interest costs
  created.
• Interest is paid by the individual buyer,
  subsidies by taxpayers in general.
• The subsidy game.
• The power of multinational companies.
• Remittances by emigrants.

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4. Financial leakage the food and water
industriesProducers lose control over their
products

• Food dependence.
• Imposed production standards
• Conservation of food.
• Freezing and packaging.
• Monoculture and imported food supplies.
• Water dependence.

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5. Financial leakage energyLocal energy
production for local use

• Solar energy the world runs on it. (Amish)
• Transformation of energy into a commercial
  product.
• Energy, an important cause of financial leakage.
• Fertilisers
• Fuel for cooking.
• Energy as a means for sustainable production.
• Sustainable energy sources.
• New products (Kyoto) excluding the poor.

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6. Financial leakage communicationsAn
important source of financial leakageThe new
untouchables

• Centrally owned, large investments.
• Consumer and professional use.
• Telephone costs.
• Internet and its costs.
• Sale of knowledge (patents)
• Smoke signals, drums, and radio-telephones.
• Radio

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7. Financial leakage health and educationThe
holy cows of development

• Health
• Better health.
• Health and local development.
• Role of pharmaceuticals multinationals
• Education
• The costs of education.
• Education and local development.
• The brain drain. (Professionals get jobs abroad)

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8. Financial leakage theft of natural resources

• The pattern of international theft of natural
  resources taking place in front of our eyes is
  constant the whole world over. Never has the
  world witnessed economic crimes of such
  proportions. Never before have colonialist
  principles been so parasitically and greedily
  exploited as they are today. Never before have so
  many people closed their eyes to it.
• Finite natural capital, mostly represented
  by mineral deposits, is of national interest.
  Local populations have right to a fair part of
  the income from the sale of the mineral deposits.
  
• Local populations have all rights to income
  from renewable natural capital.
• Articles 119-126 of the Constitution of
  Venezuela, 1999, on the rights of indigenous
  peoples.

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9. Financial leakage corruption, export of
funds, tax havens

• If proceeds from corruption were invested
  locally, they would probably lead to unequal
  distribution of wealth in a given area, but not
  necessarily to financial leakage from the area.
• Theyre not.
• Foreign accounts in industrialised
  countries.
• Expenditure on luxury items situated in
  foreign countries.
• Importation of luxury items into the
  project area.
• Banks and their investments.

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10. Financial leakage foreign aidLords of
poverty (Graham Hancock)Even money spent on
good things reduces the amount of funds
available for integrated development for the
poor.

• A new industry, often with profits.
• Foreign aid, a wide definition.
• Where the money goes.
• Experts, experts everywhere.
• Vaccination campaigns.
• Help, food !

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11. Basics for a good quality of life

• Poverty is a state in which one's perceived
  quality of life is lower than
• is felt to be needed for survival and
  reproduction, or than is desired.
• The following list is not intended to be
  complete.
• It describes what must be provided within the
  framework of an
• integrated development project
• Task of state, military, and
  police.
• Physical safety
• Tasks of an integrated
  development project.
• Adequate shelter (drained,
  absence of smoke)
• Clean drinking water (25
  litres/day always)
• Food, enough and varied.
• Health and sanitation.
• Education for all.
• Work for all.
• Social security system for
  the weakest.

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12. Physical safety

• State protection
• Concepts of value
• Cooperative, notional, social, cultural assets
• Whats worth stealing?
• Insurance aspects

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13. Shelter

• Package for improving housing conditions is built
  into the various services provided.
• Hygiene education
• Water supply (three sources)
• Sanitation
• Drainage
• Waste collection and recycling
• Cooking stoves and biomass for them
• Aeration, elimination of smoke
• Cooperative purchasing groups

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14. Water

• Water shortage and quality
• How much water do we really need?
• Control water quantity by avoiding wastage and
  recycling grey water.
• Keep drinking water clean.
• Back-up where solar pumps do not work.
• (Fair) distribution of drinking water.
• Fetching water.
• Rainwater harvesting.
• Maintenance of structures.
• Irrigation (usually excluded).
• Hot water (cooperative purchasing groups)

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15. Typical well-borehole
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16. Typical water point
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17. Food security

• Enough food, with varied diet.
• Local consumption first for local needs.
• Household cultivation for variety.
• Vertical gardens.
• Eliminate mono-cultures.
• Product storage facilities for local use.
• Fertilisers for gardens (eco-sanitation).
• Water for gardens (recycling).
• Use of local seeds.
• Seed banks and nurseries.

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18. Health and sanitation.

• Health causes and cures.
• Hygiene education for women and in schools
• Varied and sufficient food supply.
• Clean and sufficient water supply.
• Sustainable dry composting toilet systems.
• Complete recycling system.
• Drainage.
• Insect control.
• Proper aeration of homes. Elimination of smoke.
• Sport.
• AIDS. Hygiene education, comfort, but not cure.

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19. Complete waste recycling system
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20. Dry composting toilet
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21. Education for all

• What the project can do and what it cannot.
• Use of local money systems.
• Who builds the schools?
• Where do the teachers come from?
• Who pays for what?
• Tank level primary schools (up to 200-250)
• Well level secondary schools (up to 35-45)
• Trades and crafts school.
• Propedeuse and higher education.
• Girls and boys.
• Meeting the millennium development goals.
• Women and evening classes.
• Study rooms.

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22. Work for all

• Direct work for about 4000 adults, being.
• 200 health club leaders 1000 tank
  commission members 200 well commission members
  10 members of the central management group 100
  people involved with the registration of local
  money transactions 200 local money transaction
  assistants 200 people responsible for local
  recycling activities at tank commission level
  100 people responsible for recycling at well
  commission level 200 guards for structures at
  well-commission level 400 farmers growing
  bio-mass for mini-briquettes 100
  mini-briquettes manufacturers 100 manufacturers
  of items made from gypsum composites, such as
  tanks, stoves, sanitary ware 50 installation
  technicians 20 maintenance technicians 10
  people responsible for water quality control.
• Indirect work for everyone else for initiatives
  under
• The local money system
• The interest-free, cost-free micro-credit
  system
• The project does not attempt to foresee possible
  activities under the structures created.
• They are as varied as the minds and the
  iniatative of the people in the project area.

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23. Social security system

• Three level social security system
• Local money system
• Formal money system
• Three levels
• Tank commission level
• Well commission level
• Project level
• Who decides?
• Who pays?

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