HANDUP BRIEF FOR
Prime Minister of Fiji
A MODEL PROGRAM FOR SUSTAINABLE INCOME GENERATION
BASED HUMANITARIAN ACTION
Five Year Projection
This is a USD380 million Proposal linking income
generation and humanitarian action. It establishes the Total Care Foundation
Fiji Incorporated (the Foundation) with UN-INMA as a community-based entity
setting up and controlling five enterprises to be created by the Foundation.
Operating these enterprises with the support of fifty (50) very experienced
advisors will ensure a sustainable dividend income stream to the Foundation to
fund rollout of humanitarian action; USD111.8 million for Humanitarian Action
in the first five years, and over USD125 million in the next five years.
Additionally, over USD97 million in wages will be created for Islander people
in the first 5 years.
It is proposed that this humanitarian action in
Fiji will strengthen hospitals and health services infrastructure and maintain
the supply of needed health consumables, as well as increase education and
employment opportunities and the overall well-being of the Islander
communities. The Program also proposes forming an Emergency Psychosocial
Support Network to psychosocially support communities affected by disasters and
provide small rapid response teams capable of quickly assessing psychosocial
need as well as interfacing with incoming aid agencies. Additionally, the
Program entails redeveloping of a program for 300 at-risk Fiji youth at Montfort
Boystown, and secondly, establishing a Smallholder Farming Cooperative with an
associated micro-credit scheme, thirdly, creating a therapeutic community
horse-based farm for transforming to wellbeing addicted Adolescents in Suva
Fiji., and creating a Residential Wellbeing Centre of high degree set in a
magnificent Island setting close to tropical forest and coral fringed beaches.
The Fertile Futures
Program’s new Enterprises will
generate 850 fulltime and 60 part time jobs for local men and women within five
years, as well as 100 other jobs during the first 18 months infrastructure set
up, with a flow-on effect of 5:1 in fulltime jobs generating 4,250 jobs for
local people.
Prepared by:
UN-INMA & Total Care
Foundation Incorporated (TCF)
Supported by an extensive
knowledgeable Local and International Team
Program Design & Facilitation:
UN-INMA & TCF
Program Address:
UN-INMA
For Total Care Foundation Incorporated
C/O Simon Ritchie, Partner, KPMG.
147 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia.
Email: tcenablers@gmail.com
All Currency is expressed in US
Dollars
Overview
This Hand-up Brief introduces the Fiji
Fertile Futures Program Proposal.
The Program proposes the setting up of five
enterprises compatible with Islander life-ways to create a sustained income
stream for funding Fiji humanitarian action:
a.
Chicken Production – producing 6.24
million chickens per annum
b. Pork Production – producing 170,000 pigs per annum
c. Living Earth Production – 20,000 tonnes of very fertile earth in the first year and
260,000 tonnes per annum after five years using Chicken, Pig and other effluent
and waste. Also producing 1,000 tonnes of Kenaf
for Pig Food in the first year and 10,000 tonnes per annum after 5 years
d.
Bio-diesel Production and Bio-power Generation – 84,000 liters of Bio-diesel in the first
year and 3 million liters per annum after five years; also producing 84 tonne of high-protein dried algae pig food in the first year, growing
to 3000 tonne per annum in the fifth year; the Program becoming self sufficient
in Bio-power, with excess Bio-power generation being fed into the Fiji Power
Grid.
e.
Eco Tourist Resort and Eco-Tourism Showcasing 35 superb features of this
Eco-Program and the pristine Environment as a World Model
f.
Residential Wellbeing Centre of high degree set in a magnificent Island
setting close to tropical forest and coral fringed beaches.
PROGRAM FLOW CHART
The following diagram details the Program Roll-out Process:
EFFECTS ON SOCIETY
Following is a list of the effects of the
Program:
Injecting over USD49 million into the Health System during the first two
years
Enriching
all forms of Well-being in Village Life through the Humanitarian Action.
Improving the well-being of current and future generations. All
industries and initiatives will be carried out in a sustainable, ethical and
environmentally compatible manner.
Creating a growing middle class
in Village Society, through employment and small business opportunities encouraging
stability.
Improving Balance of Payments as a consequence of
increased exports.
Civil Society Strengthening through setting up cooperative support between businesses and cooperatives and
local people.
Taking Pressure off the Public
Purse through Civil Society corporate cooperative
economic activity and grassroots mutual help, lessening the need for government
spending.
Increasing the government’s tax base as a natural flow-on from the increase in
economic activity as a result of the Fertile Futures Program initiative.
ASSOCIATED ENTERPRISES
The Foundation will support associated projects and
industries that evolve with direct input from the local people. These include:
1.
Fertile
Futures Cooperative supporting the evolving of local smallholding Eco-Farms and
providing micro credit for small eco-projects
2.
Redeveloping
the Piggery and Aquaculture Farm at Montfort Boystown, a
residential college for three hundred at-risk youth
3.
Kenaf (Hibiscus) plantations and Bamboo Forestry
for bamboo shoots and timber
4.
Establishing
Fiji Seed Banks for food generating in Sub Tropical Africa
ENTERPRISE
CORPORATE STRUCTURE
The Foundation controls all money received from funders. Dividends from the Enterprises will provide the Foundation an ongoing dividend stream to fund Humanitarian Action focusing on health, education, creating employment opportunities in local industry and grassroots initiatives as well as the overall well-being of local communities.
ADVISORY
BOARDS
For each of
the five enterprises and associated activities, the Foundation has agreements
with over fifty (50) very experienced consultants who will form the Advisory
Board of the Foundation and the Boards of the respective Enterprises and
Entities. Consisting of fifty (50) University Professors, PhD holders and
members of peak industry and professional bodies in their respective fields,
some in the Consultant Group are known to each other and have worked together
on international assignments in the tropics. Consultants have been selected
because they understand and work well with the Program Framework.
FRAMEWORK
The Program operates within a framework ensuring
successful outcomes respecting local culture and life-ways, as well as ensuring
that local people participate fully in the Program Rollout. The Program honors indigenous values and life ways and ensures that the
communities are the ultimate beneficiaries of their own resources. The Foundation works with local communities at the
grassroots level, facilitating programs in ways that uses and
strengthens local resources, capacities, and cultural ways. The Program fosters
and supports locals engaging in self-help and mutual help. The local village
people will have the voice in evolving proposals and take an active role in
humanitarian action.
EXTEGRITY
Extegrity (short for Extensive Integrity) is an entity
with a sixteen-year history in providing ecological guidance and support in the
Region. Members of Extegrity will act as an independent Extegrity Board of
Ecological Review for the Foundation’s Board on the ecology and environmental
sustainability of all aspects of Program rollout.
ESTABLISHING RESEARCH INSTITUTES
AND CENTRES
The Program will
establish the following in Fiji:
1.
The Fertile Futures Social Research Institute will engage in action
researching all aspects of the Program’s processes and outcomes
2.
The Sustainable Health and Wellbeing Institute
3.
The Indigenous Tropical Medicine Institute
4.
The World Center for Corporate Social Responsibility
PROGRAM DESIGNERS AND FACILITATORS
UN-INMA with TCF are the Program Facilitators who
have provided the following support:
a.
Located and networked with the Consultants who will form the Program’s
Business and Humanitarian Advisory Boards, as well as with the associated
entities working with every aspect of the Program.
b.
Obtained comprehensive information and advisory support from these
Consultants.
c.
Prepared all the very detailed Excel Spreadsheets for each of the
Enterprises and other entities and Humanitarian Action, including the chicken
production and feed schedules with guidance from the Program consultants
(chicken production and feed schedules have been prepared by a team member with
an Actuarial background and our Excel Spread sheet surpasses industry standards).
d.
Prepared this Hand-up Brief and the Program Proposal, all of the
Enterprises’ Development Plans, and all of the background documents.
e.
Prepared the Foundation’s Corporate Structure, Probity Processes and
Employee Share Option Program.
f.
Worked with the locals and the Health Professional Advisors on
Preliminary form and costing of the Hospitals and Health Services Rollout.
g.
Prepared and written all the information on Total Care Foundation Fiji
Incorporated, the Humanitarian Action Rollout Process, the Humanitarian Action
Funding Application process, and the writing of the Foundation’s Constitution.
h.
Prepared all of the Training, field resources and other resources to
establish the Fiji Emergency Psychosocial Support Network (FEPSN)
i.
Linked all of the Key Players with the aspects of the Program and to
key members of the Advisory Groups.
j.
Briefing Key Players on the wider resonant action of the Region during
the past 40 years linked to the Humanitarian Action Rollout.
k.
Arranged a series of no-charge meetings regarding the Program with KPMG
Accountants and Freehills Solicitors – top professionals in Australia
l.
Briefed and Liaised with the Program’s Collateral Providers and Funders
m. Held a series of briefing and
orienting discussions with the three founding members of the Foundation Board
UN_INMA & TCF will also have an ongoing consulting, intercultural, and inter-village enabling/interfacing role within and between both the business and humanitarian aspects of the Program. UN-INMA has experience in interfacing First World pre-planned expertise with the more emergent context-based approaches of village people in the Region. The Group has worked within large and small entities in the Pacific East Asia Australasia Region including the UN. UN-INMA network people commenced as a consultancy to Presidents and Chief Executive Officers of Large International Business Corporations concerned about sustainability in a rapid changing world. The Networks’ skills in Futures Studies and intercultural interfacing have taken it into development work interfacing Business Enterprise with Humanitarian Action.
FUNDING
UN-INMA has established excellent rapport with a
consortium of high net worth European Entities who have given an acceptance
letter undertaking to provide collateral to secure a funding grant for the
Program through one or more financial entities. UN-INMA has discussions
underway with a number of entities to obtain the funding grant.
SUMMARY
A large number of Islander
people and partner entities have been developing this Program. As well, this
Program draws upon action research on Macro, medium, and micro
projects in the Region carried out by many people over the last forty years. The
Program development has drawn upon this experience and accumulated wisdom of
over 40 years of grassroots humanitarian action through the Pacific Region.