| The first three
parts :
- Evaluation and Vision of the Future
- Proposals and Projects :
- Report on the Participatory Process Used
for the Evaluation and Future of the Alliance
- The second
stage of the Alliance |
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Part Two: Proposals
and Projects
By Martí
Olivella
Barcelona, April 20, 2003
3. ON TURNING PROPOSALS INTO TRANSFORMATION PROJECTS
A Projects Office.
The Alliance process has not only generated a collection of proposals
related to humanity’s principal challenges, it has also created
a series of world networks (cross-cultural, cross-thematic and cross-socioprofessional)
that can interact to turn these innovative proposals into social
transformation projects which, in turn, could be a source of self-financing
for their developers and a contribution to the overall funding for
the Alliance.
Procedures
1. Create an Alliance Projects Office, with a minimal
structure: a person in charge with a promoter’s profile, and
a support team ... connected via the Internet. In the future, there
may be several Projects Offices.
2. Choose a Proposal Paper that we consider to
be socially feasible. Choose proposals from different Proposal Papers
(see later a suggestion on how to detect these proposals in a participatory
manner).
3. Suggest that the author/s convert them into projects to be applied
to specific socioeconomic sectors.
4. Present and promote this project before several interested social
actors:
a. Companies (private, social, public) in the sector for its application.
We provide a more detailed project and specific advice for its implementation.
b. Ethical funding firms (to obtain financing)
c. Consumers (to activate demand)
d. Media (for its publication)
e. Universities (to improve the project and for training purposes)
f. Governments (national, regional, local...for legal and economic
support)
g. NGOs (for mobilization)
h. Alliance workshops seeking associations of different sectors,
issues, and countries
5. The product of the “sale” of the product and the
advisory service could be divided into three parts:
a. 50% for the authors and advisors of the project
b. 30% for the Projects Office (relations and promoters)
c. 20% to finance overall Alliance development projects
6. Periodically, when there are funds, the Office will call for
a Remote Participatory Budget for all those involved in the Projects
Plan so that they can decide on the use made of Alliance funds (publications,
meetings, coordination...)
7. The Projects Office will gather the information relating to the
experiences, results and difficulties related to the projects, transmitting
progress reports to those involved in each project.
8. The Projects Office will have its own legal status or will start
in association with an existing organization able to operate from
a commercial perspective.
9. International operations, which could be calculated with a common
accounting unit, could be settled when and as agreed by the stakeholders,
with the possibility of adopting forms of trade for goods and services.
10. For the initial launch of the Projects Office, this plan is
presented to the FPH Call for Initiatives, since we consider that
it complies with its requirements.
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