The project is strongly demand response oriented. It has been worked out together with the people concerned, who will execute, run, maintain, own and pay for it.
The project is self-financing, subject to an interest-free seed loan repayable in 10 years. It is structured for about 10000 households (58000 users). The amount of the loan is Euro 3.750.000 or approximately Euro 65 per user. This is repaid by a monthly payment of Euro 0,65 per user into a Cooperative Development Fund. This is enough to cover the basic package offered.
The project is self-financing because it allows the recipient communities to fully exploit a network of sustainable development activities using:
(i) The interest-free loan itself
(ii) Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS)
(iii) Multiple re-cycled interest-free micro-credits for productivity purposes. Based on an average two year repayment period, the funds recycled are approximately 18.439.540 Euro, or about Euro 1800 per family over the first period of ten years.
The project encourages open competition and free enterprise within the framework of an interest-free, inflation-free, cooperative and non-profit-making global financial environment.
The project structures are created during an initial two years' executive period.
a) To extend existing hygiene education activities by establishing Community Health Clubs in the Waso area and promoting formal hygiene education courses in schools.
b) To install technically appropriate sanitation for the people in the Waso area.
c) To provide a permanent safe drinking water supply in the project area in all foreseeable circumstances.
d) To make safe drinking water available within a radius of 150-200m from users' homes.
e) To contribute to the fight against water-related diseases through hygiene education, the supply of appropriate sanitation and clean drinking water systems.
f) To reduce the work load on women
g) To provide for the continuity of health, sanitation and drinking water systems by establishing appropriate institutional structures.
h) To support the construction and use of improved school facilities in the project area.
i) To enable students and others who wish to study in the evening to do so.
j) To reduce the use of wood and promote reafforestation and sustainable use of the Samburu National Park.
k) To introduce efficient bio-mass fuelled means of cooking and solar cookers for daytime applications.
l) To create added value through recycling of non-organic waste.
m) To keep available financial resources (LETS money and formal money) revolving within the beneficiary communities.
n) To stimulate on-going local industrial and agricultural development through the use of local currency (LETS) and micro-credit systems.
o) To set up water storage facilities to support small-scale cultivation in the dry seasons
p) To create large-scale job opportunities
| Outgo (Capital) | Phase | Estimate (Euro) |
|---|---|---|
| Total first phase | 1 | 0 |
| Total second phase | 2 | 483.250 |
| Total phase 3 | 3 | 1.833.550 |
| Total phase 4 | 4 | 844.000 |
| Fees project coordinator | 1/5 | 100.000 |
| Total supervision Manning | 1/5 | 100.000 |
| General total all phases | 3360.800 | |
| Reserves 10.35% | 5 | 389.200 |
| Total 1+2+3+4+5 | 3.750.000 |
| On-going costs | Euro |
|---|---|
| Coordinator for administration | 15.000 |
| Maintenance operators | 5.000 |
| Tank commissions (271*5 Euro p.m.) | 16.260 |
| Spare parts | 15.000 |
| Reserve for theft | 15.000 |
| Unforeseen (about 17.2%) | 13.740 |
| Total recurrent costs | 80.000 |
| Income | Euro |
|---|---|
| Annual contribution for use of all services (58000 people @ Euro 0.65 p.m.) | 452.400 |
| On-gong costs per year | 80.000 |
| Net annual income for loan repayment | 372.400 |