Microphone-project

The microphone-projects are one of the names used by the backers for their actions of ground; by opposition with the programs of direct aid to the governments or the great institutions of the beneficiary countries.

The majority of the donor countries or the multilateral institutions of development assistance finance and implement programs of microphone-projects, generally with the active participation of the authorities of the host country.

The microphone-projects are not " micro" that in opposition to the programs of macroeconomic scale, like the support for the imports, the construction of a port or the continuing education of personnel of a whole administration, which amounts per tens or hundreds of million euros or dollars. In this direction, the microprojet is thousand times less important, it remains of scale village or Community and has only one local influence. But it touches people in the middle of their concerns and, especially, there would not exist without them.

Specificities

  1. the participation of the actor-recipients
  2. an adapted financial allocation
  3. of the fast and durable results

Participation of the actor-recipients

The microprojet - to be concrete, let us say the construction of a bridge spanning a dangerous gully currently crossed to ford - expresses the participation of people as of his identification. Thus it is the district committee of this Bidonville which sends a delegation to the office of the program to explain why the inhabitants need this bridge. They also say that they have the people being able to carry out the technical study and the construction of this one. Progressively of the negotiation with the backer, they make realize and present an estimate, they show that they will be able to manage the money, that they will obtain all the authorizations necessary, that they will be able to call upon the good will of all in ground or work, that they take account of the foreseeable changes that will involve the new bridge, that they will be able to also manage the conflicts… And the financial backer frees the money, by sections, and the project starts to become a reality.

Adapted financial allocation

The amount of a microprojet can vary from 25000 to 250000 euros. It is in any case an important sum when one is only a District committee or a country association or a group of young people decided to make turn a small manufacture… The lump sum corresponds to the real need, taking into account the participation locally brought in work, in kind or even out of money. It is a sum negotiated with more close to reality. The negotiation even of the envelope induced at the recipients the need for competences, transparency too. For this purpose parapets are set up, so that the population is informed of the financial questions and can exert its right of monitoring. Formations can be included in the project, for the good walk of construction and the countable management of the sums spent. The follow-up, slices after section, by the backer of the expenditure and of the achievements in parallel is a need.

Fast and durable results

Then, if very happened well, the bridge is built, within the times by taking account of the inevitable delays, and it is solid. It renders great services, saves lives the days of storm, reassures the children, is used again place as appointment, makes the pride of the shantytown. A stage in the development of this peripheral district is reached. The future passes by the bridge… The district committee is credible enough for certain days to organize a toll in order to consolidate the banks, or to compensate an owner whose house, awkward for circulation, will have to be demolished. In short, the microprojet made it possible to produce structuring equipment, normally spring of the public services, which has a direct local impact in employment, then especially by its utility, for thousands of people. In other cases, the rendered service can concern, apparently, only one more restricted group. The interest goes then on the social effect of drive and the role of the financial backer is to accompany the group enough far so that it surmounts his obstacles.

Sectors of interventions

  1. the economic life
  2. public equipment
  3. to avoid powdering

External bonds

  • ''' the Television of Solidarity and Sustainable development ''': The television which uses the force of the microphone-projects.

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