Marupi project facts sheet for stakeholder recruitment

MARUPI Project Facts Sheet Monday, 16 January 2017
MARUPI  
“socioeconomic  
health/wealth cluster” 
Project Facts Sheet
Author: Dr Jan-Cedric Hansen StratAdviserLtd on behalf of MARUPI Page of1 28
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Table of content
About MARUPI 3
MARUPI’s “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster” 4
MARUPI Seven Steps Roadmap 5
About the first step of the Roadmap 6
About further Roadmap steps and the MARUPI global project 6
MARUPI Individual & Community Health/Wealth Assessment Questionnaire 7
Results from the preliminary data collection 7
Discussion on MARUPI preliminary findings 10
MARUPI Global Project financial & economic aspects 11
MARUPI economic backbone 11
MARUPI Budget & Funding requirements 11
MARUPI anticipated income 12
MARUPI funds control 12
MARUPI anticipated local/regional/RoW redistribution 13
MARUPI Global project reach 14
MARUPI interaction with actual socioeconomic corridors 15
MARUPI cooperatives/corridors interactions 16
MARUPI Global project overview 18
MARUPI Global project timeline 18
MARUPI Global project logical framework approach 18
MARUPI seven steps roadmap requirements 20
Step I requirements 20
Step II requirements 20
Step III requirements 21
Step IV requirements 23
Step V requirements 23
Step VI requirements 25
Step VII requirements 25
MARUPI Global project partners 26
Conclusion & Perspectives 27
References 28

About MARUPI
MARUPI is the acronym of the Mano River Union Peace Initiatives. Currently, MARUPI follows and
care for about 3000 individuals. Acting for several years within the Mano River area MARUPI in an
informal manner thanks to its church implantations. MARUPI has registered as a NGO by the
Liberia government under the number 500452538 for 2015-2016 and renewed its registration for
2016-2017. MARUPI has numerous local correspondants within the Manor River Union (MRU)
willing to act but lacking material, furbishment, communication tools, transportation means and
alike. This doesn’t prevent MARUPI for taking efficient initiatives and elaborating an ambitious
roadmap to fulfil its objectives.
MARUPI Head Quarters are located in Liberia which has a unique position within MRU for it is
bordered by Sierra Leone to its West, Guinea to its North and Ivory Coast to its East thus being the
actual crossroad of the Union.
MRU is a regional association established between Liberia and Sierra Leone in 1973. Guinea
joined the association in 1980, then Cote d’Ivoire during 2008. Thus MRU is a bilingual English/
French speaking union. There are extensive cross-border linkages based on ethnic, economic and
historical factors between Guinea and Liberia, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and Guinea and Côte
d’Ivoire. There are, therefore, more similarities than differences because a number of cultural/
ethnic groups live on both sides of international frontiers with long time habits of visiting neighbours
and relatives on the other side of the border to attend weekly markets, weddings, funerals, …. The
MRU aims to strengthen the capacity of Member States to integrate their economies and
coordinate development programs in the areas of peace building, as a prerequisite to any
development, trade promotion, development of industry, energy, agriculture, natural resources,
transport and telecommunications, monetary and financial affairs in short, all aspects of economic
and social life of the Member States. Today, MRU has a combined population of about 40.5 million
people, cover a total area of more than 750,000 square kilometres, and have an aggregate GDP of
about £ 26,5 billion thanks to the natural resources and their exports dominated by commodities:
• Liberia’s main export is rubber (two-thirds of total exports), followed by diamonds, gold and iron
ore.
• Sierra Leone is predominantly exporting diamonds (about 60 percent of total exports) and cocoa.
• Guinea holds the largest reserves of bauxite in the world and is a leading exporter of the mineral,
but also ships substantial quantities of iron ore, gold, diamonds, oil and coffee abroad.
• Côte d’Ivoire is the world’s largest producer of cocoa (about 30 percent of global production), and
also exports significant amount of crude oil (about a third of total export value).
The MRU also pursues a range of sectoral development initiatives such as in agriculture, where it
promoted the use of small mills to help farmers expand the production and processing of palm oil
while establishing the Monrovia Glass Factory as a producer of bottles and jars for member states.
Nevertheless, the recent 2015-2016 Ebola outbreak has not only caused an acute health hazard
illness but has also seriously impede on the socioeconomic system of MRU countries which where
recovering from the civil wars that engulfed its founding members Liberia and Sierra Leone from
the late 1980s to 2000 as well as Côte d’Ivoire during 2002-2004 then 2010-2011.
The 2015-2016 Ebola outbreak has ultimately resulted to a socioeconomic health/wealth break
down in the sub-region especial Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and a small magnitude effect in
Ivory Coast. The creation, organisation and maintenance of public health safe economic corridors
by the West African Health Organisation during the Ebola outbreak has limited its potentially
devastating impact on the economies of MRU countries on various sectors such as; Education,
Agriculture, Health sector, Fishing & Marine Resources, Trade, Investment, Commerce, Financial
Services, Transport & service sector, Diplomatic cooperation, Mining, Tourism, Infrastructure,
Labour and the effectiveness of macroeconomic policy implementation which calls for a
reassessment of the population both socioeconomic and health status as well as further
development expectations.

MARUPI’s “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster”
MARUPI believes in “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster-building” to increase the health status of
the MRU population. A “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster” initiates the networking of all
participants in a value-added chain. The objective is to bundle the potentials and competences for
increasing the innovation power and competitiveness of the partners in a cluster . The scientific1
literature contains many examples of socioeconomic factors such as income, education and
ethnicity directly contributing to the health status of a given population. As an exemple, the
socioeconomic status (SES) underlies three major determinants of health: health care,
environmental exposure, and health behaviour . Thus, addressing the components of2
socioeconomic status (income, education, and occupation) is likely to have a positive impact on the
health satis of the MRU population.
A “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster” can be an accelerator for the economic and technological
development of a region causing innovations in all industries/technologies. But industrialisation or
even digitisation itself along with the development of broadband infrastructure, telecommunications
industries, information technology and related applications cannot push employment and economic
growth unless there is a concomitant increase in the population wealth and basic necessities
coverage (potable water, healthy food, clothing, housing, reliable medications, … as well as
socioeconomic education).
MARUPI intend to strengthen its ability to identify the Mano River Union population needs in
parallel to the ability to set robust sub-programs that fits funding requirements from third party
payers and monitor the effective use of funds including impact on population health and life
expectancy.
Therefore the MARUPI "socioeconomic health/wealth cluster" project intend to combine several
goals:
• reinvigorate the feeling that one’s future better life is within the MRU rather than in remote
European countries
• provide educational programs aimed at developing local business initiatives
• encourage many unemployed ex-child soldiers into agribusiness for both better local food
availability and global business
• help the MRU population practice a healthier lifestyle by planing radios talk shows in different
vernacular languages to explain everyday safe moves (how to chlorinate wells’ water, how to
preserve food, how and when re-impregnate mosquito’s nest, how to best manage the family
budget, how to apply for microcredit, how to integrate regulatory and legal constraints, …)
• delivering educational sessions and meetings to assist individuals to design their own
sustainable life project
In addition MARUPI is willing to fight against fake medications and health professional shortage
that dampen the population health. Therefore MARUPI’s Country Directors are currently recruiting
nurses to train them to better support local population as well as identifying fake drugs.
In parallel MARUPI stakeholders will develop a more secure medication logistic distribution
towards dispensaries and other “bush clinics”.
In other words MARUPI’s “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster” will provide to the targeted
population a multidimensional care that can be designated by “Healthcare” (improve and secure
the population global health), “Wealthcare” (improve and secure the population global wealth) and
“Socialcare” (improve and secure the population global social standards).
In order to achieve these goals MARUPI want to create its own sustainable development project
over a 5 years plan.
Bangura, AK. "Using e-clustering to reinvigorate the Mano River Union." (2009). https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1
1853/35665/1237845176_AB.pdf
Nancy E. Adler and Katherine Newman Socioeconomic Disparities In Health: Pathways And Policies Health Affairs 21, no.2 (2002):2
60-76

This plan is based on
• covenant with rural communities to get rights to plant up to 20,000 square kilometres
• Palm tree sustainable development
• Palm oil use as local biodiesel to run trucks, power supply, … and Palm oil trade for international
pharmaceutical companies use
The palm tree choice is a sound choice because:
• it has a rapid ROI (around 20 months between plantation and first harvest)
• it is a truly international market driver
• Pam tree oil is easy to produce, store and transport with minimum technology (materials & skills)
in a tropical environment
• it allows to grow local crops in between the palm trees for local needs and improved local food
access.
• it is in line with the MRU development guidelines
If MARUPI — thanks to its country directors and stakeholders — has the know-how to network the
whole MRU population both at urban and rural community level and has knowledge transfert skills,
it lacks methodology and initial funding capacity.
In order to achieve this goals, MARUPI concluded a partnership with StratAdviser Ltd, a third party
which is already providing advices to the West African Health Organisation (WAHO) regarding
epidemiological data analysis and strategic responses towards public health issues. For that
reason MARUPI has designated StratAdviser Ltd as “Essential Partner” in order to get advises and
methodological support regarding the initiation and steering of its global project.
This Partnership allowed MARUPI to build a sound seven Steps Roadmap that deserves funding to
be completed.
MARUPI Seven Steps Roadmap
I. Set a reliable health and economic data collection to monitor the population status within the
area where MARUPI is present
II. Build a MARUPI International Steering Committee to validate, analyse and comment those
data
III. Elicit a monthly report on those data along with prospective comments and calls for actions to
be disseminated among international key decision makers including those of international
funding bodies
IV. Create a MARUPI MRU Task Force devoted to the priorisation, planification and steering of
regional or local programs that respond to the calls for actions elicited by the MARUPI
International Steering Committee in cooperation with local/regional/international health
authorities and funding bodies
V. Establish a MARUPI Funding Office dedicated to the identification of relevant BID to the Mano
River area from governments as well as international funding bodies with the ability to respond
to those call for tenders and win them, along with the aim to create and disseminate funding
campaigns thanks to social networks
VI. Develop a MARUPI Purchasing Bureau specialised in the evaluation, selection and acquisition
of requested material ad/or furbishment according to the MARUPI MRU Task Force
recommendations in cooperation with local/regional/international health authorities and funding
bodies
VII.Edit a quarterly report on MARUPI initiatives and activities updates to be disseminated among
international key decision makers including those of local/regional/international health
authorities and funding bodies

About the first step of the Roadmap
MARUPI already conducted a one month preliminary sound health and economic data collection
among a sample of 150 Liberians living in different counties and environments in order to assess
the feasibility of a larger 3000 questionnaires survey.
The MARUPI Individual & Community Health Assessment Questionnaire is intended to get a clear
and reliable vision of both social and health needs of the Mano River Union population who seek
for this NGO support.
The collected data will serve to priories future investments made possible by the funding of
international bodies to best respond to the Mano River Union population needs as taken care by
MARUPI.
Those questionnaires will be concatenated and analysed by MARUPI with the help of its partner
StratAdviser Ltd.
In parallel to the public health use of those questionnaire, each will benefit from a specific analysis
by a doctor in order to propose a personal assessment with its related medical recommendation to
the benefit of the individual who accepted to respond.
About further Roadmap steps and the MARUPI global
project
Further steps of the Roadmap will serve as a support for the MARUPI global project. On the base
of the data collection, the MARUPI International Steering Committee will call for actions within the
“socioeconomic health/wealth cluster-building” process and recommend appropriate partnership
and projects. Then, the MARUPI MRU Task Force will devote itself to the priorisation, planification
and steering of regional or local programs that respond to the calls for actions elicited by the
MARUPI International Steering Committee.
Indeed regular monthly reports of actual impact of actions will assess the relevance of fund use.
MARUPI’s "socioeconomic health/wealth cluster" project scheme encompasses 3 themes:
I. improving health status of the targeted population by promoting healthy behaviours in everyday
life, eliciting better local/community water supply/sewer as well as cold/dry food/medication
storage infrastructures, fighting against fake street medications and improving access to
healthcare professionals; among others
II. improving economic activity within the targeted population by promoting a combination of palm
tree/local crops agricultural development along with the related storage/logistic/trade skills
enhancement and local/regional/international reach
III. improving social cohesion of the targeted population by fostering inter individuals relationships
that are stable, safe, just and tolerant, and respect diversity, equality of opportunity and that
recognise the added value of cooperation/participation of individuals regardless of their ethnic
and/or religion background in any given project
Regarding the sustainable and ethically produced palm oil products development, MARUPI will
favour high level of farmer participation within group size of 15‐20 farmers where each farmer owns
2 ha resulting in management units of 30‐40 ha. MARUPI local representative will favour revenue
sharing amongst members of each group, in order to facilitate solidarity amongst group members,
and thereby uniform standards of plantation management. MARUPI will recommend that farmers
live in a village spatially separate from their plantation to promote community development and
reduce cost of developing housing, road and related reticulation. Financial management (mill
payment as an example) at primary cooperative level will be organise under MARUPI assistance to
achieve maximum transparency with easy auditing and paper trails. MARUPI will act as a
secondary cooperative in order to provide services useful for the smallholders and to select best
commercial partners to trade the palm oil production in line with MRU guidelines.

MARUPI Individual & Community Health/Wealth
Assessment Questionnaire
Results from the preliminary data collection
Prior to call for funding and initiation of its self funding program MARUPI initiated a preliminary data
collection to test its ability to evaluate the MRU population socioeconomic health/wealth actual
state and its direct needs.
This preliminary data collection is also intended to demonstrate to third parties and funding bodies
that MARUPI is a reliable NGO that match international standards thus deserves appropriate
support.
The MARUPI sample is an active (69% employed), well educated (84% graduated from high
school), rural (78%) population, with slightly more male (54%) than female (46%) and a mean age
of 33.
Education level of
sample
1 %
15 %
84 %
High school graduate
Some high school
None
Activity of sample
1 %
2 %
18 %
9 %
69 %
Employed Student
Unemployed Self Employed
Homemaker
Living environment of
sample
78 %
7 %
15 %
Urban (informal settlement)
Semirural
Rural

The MARUPI sample population has a rather low income (97% earn less than 0.5 ₤/day), with
medium size housing (60% of 4 to 6 inhabitants) offering 3 rooms (67%), who can afford to eat only
once a day (99%).
Daily Income
2 %
2 %
97 %
Less than 0.5 £/day
More than 1£/day but less than 2£/day
More than 2£/day but less than 4£/day
Number of meal/day
99 %
1 %
Less than one/day One/day
more than one/day
Number of people living
in the same house
2 %
31 %
60 %
7 %
1-3 inhabitants 4-6 inhabitants
7-9 inhabitants 10-12 inhabitants
Number of rooms in the
house
2 %
3 %
16 %
67 %
10 %
1 %
1 room 2 rooms 3 rooms
4 rooms 5 rooms 6 rooms

The MARUPI sample population lives in a rather insecure environment (49% victim of rape, 23%
victim of physical assault or attack with weapons) while having difﬁculties to get health support
(84% can’t afford it) although it is available in a reasonable distance (93% within 10 to 20 minutes)
although minimalist (79% of facility is a rural clinic).
Personal confrontation
with violence
19 %
49 %
9 %
23 %
Physical assault or attack with weapons
Mutilation
Rape
Kidnaping
Nature of nearest  
health facility
14 %
7 %
79 %
rural clinic medical dispensary
hospital
Ability to visit a nurse/
doctor when needed
1 %
1 %
15 %
84 %
Cannot afford it
No appointment available
Cannot take time off
Yes
Distance to nearest
health facility
2 %
93 %
5 %
less than 10 min
beween 10 and 20 min
more than 20 min

Discussion on MARUPI preliminary findings
WHO statistical profile on Liberia — despite its wide range of parameters — provides only one
statistic that is also included into the MARUPI Individual & Community Health Assessment
Questionnaire findings, namely the daily income of the population.
The discrepancy between both database may come from the kind of population (roughly 75 %
urban for the WHO database vs 77% rural for the MARUPI sample)
Surprisingly, WHO statistical profile on Liberia provides focuses on causes of death rather than
causes of impaired contribution to the GDP per capita when compared to the MARUPI Individual &
Community Health/Wealth Assessment Questionnaire.
It has been demonstrated that disaster-related mortality has a significant negative effect on GDP.
Thus, as policy-makers strive to increase GDP through capital investment, export promotion and
increased educational enrolment, they should always keep in mind that investments made in the
strengthening of national capacity to mitigate the effects of national disasters expeditiously and
effectively will yield significant economic returns .3
On the other hand, WHO finds evidence that health is one of the most important determinants of a
country’s economic success . Thus, significant improvements in health within reach of affordable4
policy interventions, whether led by governments or by large-scale philanthropies or local NGOs,
potentially lead to increases in economic growth.
How the health care expenditure in Africa in general and ECOWAS in particular, responds to
changes in the Gross Domestic Products (GDP), Official Development Assistance (ODA), and
other determinants, is also relevant for health policy because health care is a necessity in the
“basic needs” theory of economic development .5
Beyond those scholastic discussion, the real question to address is:
“how can we decide whether we should invest on individual change of behaviour  
or rather on health infrastructures  
or else?”
This is exactly what the MARUPI Individual & Community Health Assessment Questionnaire aims
at. As an example, this database demonstrates (if the final study confirm the sample results) that
there is still a need to both explain the interest for impregnated mosquitos’ net as well as renewal
and/or re-impregnation campaigns along with the dissemination of “mosquitos’ net usage and
“family rules” and probably a wider population education regarding the fight against stagnant water
(rain barrels, plant pots, animal drinking containers, crevices of plastic goods, garbage cans, old
tires, buckets, tree stumps, puddles, shallow ponds, clogged gutters, obstructed down spouts, flat
roofs, yard debris, …) to get a real and cost efficient impact on mosquitos’ borne diseases such as
malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, chikungunya, yellow fever, filariasis, Zika, …
Following the same methodology, oral hygiene which contributes to teeth preservation which in
turn drives proper feeding thus positively impacts one’s Healthy life expectancy, appears to be
critical and deserves specific programs to increase the population ability to brush teeth more than
once a day (53% of the MARUPI sample brush teeth less than once a day while more than 72%
have one or more obvious decay or missing teeth).
Statistics WHO MARUPI
Daily income 1.8 ₤/day < 0.5 ₤/day  
(97% of sample)
Kirigia JM, Sambo LG, Aldis W, Mwabu GM. Impact of disaster-related mortality on gross domestic product in the WHO African3
Region. BMC Emergency Medicine. 2004;4:1.
Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development. Geneva:4
World Health Organization; 2001.
Okunade AA. Analysis and implications of the determinants of healthcare expenditure in African countries. Health Care Manag Sci.5
2005 Nov;8(4):267-76.

When it comes to subjects such as Population using improved water and sanitation, WHO exposes
that nearly 80% of the Liberian population has access to Improved drinking-water sources while
the MARUPI sample reveals that 80% has no access to tab water and rather need nearly 10
minutes walk to get to the nearest well.
MARUPI Global Project financial & economic aspects
MARUPI economic backbone
MARUPI choose Palm Oil as the economic backbone of its self funding objective. Palm Oil is a
natural extract from the red palm fruit widely produced among ECOWAS member states. The fruit
has an oil content of about 50% and the palm kernel has and oil content of around 45%. This high
oil content makes palm oil by far the most efficient vegetable oil crop in the world. An oil palm
produces 10 times as much oil per hectare as soybeans, 5 times as much as rapeseed and 2 times
as much as coconuts.
Several products can be produced from the oil palm: palm oil, palm kernel oil, palm olein, palm
kernel olein, palm stearin, palm kernel stearin, palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD) and palm kernel
expeller. The oils have different characteristics and all have their different uses in products. Those
different products can be used as a food ingredient for humans and animals, or used in the
production of soaps, cosmetics, detergent, pharmaceutical products, and oleo chemical products.
as well as a component of biodiesel.
The planting of the trees can be done at any time of year; however, the most successful period is
between June and December. First harvest can normally be done 30 months after planting the
tree. Fruits can be harvested throughout the year, but the peak season for fruit is between July and
September.
When used as food, unlike most other vegetable oils, it doesn’t promote the accumulation of
cholesterol and low-density lipoproteins that are known to be unhealthy. Palm oil positive points are
its relative cheapness when compared with other edible oil, and its relatively long shelf life up to
one year without losing its quality with proper storage conditions.
MARUPI Budget & Funding requirements
MARUPI intend to achieve self funding capacities within 3 years from 2017. In the mean time
MARUPI requires third parties to fund its global project kickoff which includes the seven step road
map and the “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster” project.
* 2019 funding is needed because there will be a gap between financial engagements and actual Palm Oil income during
the first semester.
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
MARUPI Budget
(k£)
100 100 150 200 250 300 350
MARUPI
anticipated
investment (k£)
400 800 132 000 396 000 1 452 000 2 112 000 2 772 000
MARUPI
Funding needs
(k£)
500 900 150*
self
funding
self
funding
self
funding
self
funding

MARUPI anticipated income
The anticipated average Crude Palm Oil (CPO) yield of MARUPI palm tree plantation would be
nearly 3 tons/hectare/annum (t/ha/a) or nearly 1300 litres of CPO per ha/a. Therefore the 20,000
km2 plantation objective may ultimately yield up to 6,000,000 tons per year.
MARUPI funds control
In order to secure financial flows and funds use, all fundings will be paid to the French lawyer firm
Carpentier-avocats (http://www.carpentier-avocats.com) and collected on a dedicated account
handled by the Lawyers' Pecuniary Payment Fund “Caisse Autonome des Règlements Pécuniaires
des Avocats (CARPA)”. No fund movement form this account will be possible without a written
authorisation from MARUPI Chairman and approved justification from either the MARUPI Funding
Office or the MARUPI Purchasing Bureau.
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Palm Oil
anticipated
production
(MMtons)
0 0 0,3 0,9 3,3 4,8 6,3
Palm Oil
turnover
440£/ton
(MM£)
0 0 132 396 1452 2112 2772
MARUPI
Budget
(MM£)
0,1 0,1 0,15 0,2 0,25 0,3 0,35

MARUPI anticipated local/regional/RoW redistribution
Thanks to this massive potential income, MARUPI intend to redistribute and reinvest this turnover
within, Counties/Districts/Clans or equivalents (depending on ofﬁcial administratives subdivisions),
MRU and ECOWAS Economy.
* the amount invested in palm tree and self subsistance farming refer to seedlings purchase mainly, other investments
(farming, oil processing, logistics, …) are included in the local/MRU economy investments.  
** 15% of amount injected in ECOWAS economy will be attributed to the OOAS/WAHO organisation
In doing so MARUPI will signiﬁcantly contribute to the GDP of rural and peri-urban population and
create numerous business opportunities for urban population.
0
350
700
1050
1400
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
amount invested in palm tree farming* (MM£)
amount invested in self subsistance farming* (MM£)
amount injected in local/MRU economy (MM£)
amount injected in ECOWAS economy** (MM£)
amount injected in RoW economy (MM£)

MARUPI Global project reach
The MARUPI “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster-building” global project will start in Liberia, then
spread to the MRU countries, then hopefully to the entire ECOWAS countries, if additional NGO
partners volunteer outside the MRU. Indeed adaptation would be needed to respond to local needs
and “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster” opportunities that may differ outside the MRU.
The MARUPI “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster-building” global project is structured with three
administrative subdivisions that mimic those of the MRU member states in order to facilitate
coherence and synergy with governmental initiatives and/or programs. Within MRU the
administratives subdivisions are as follow:
Since MARUPI is a Liberian NGO its organisation copies the Liberian administrative terms. Readers should refer to this
table to ﬁnd out the corresponding subdivision in a given MRU member state.
Nevertheless, MARUPI operates at a fourth subdivision level designated by the term “community”
which designates a group of interdependent people inhabiting in a particular local area and
interacting with each other.
Administrative
subdivisions
Côte d’Ivoire Guinea Liberia Sierra Leone
First level District Regions Counties Provinces
Second level Regions Prefectures Districts Districs
Third level Departments Sous-Prefectures Clans Chiefdoms
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS): Benin (1), Burkina Faso (2), Cabo Verde (3),
Cote d’Ivoire (4), The Gambia (5), Ghana (6), Guinea (7), Guinea-Bissau (8), Liberia (9), Mali (10), Niger
(11), Nigeria (12), Senegal (13), Sierra Leone (14), Togo (15).
Mano River Union (MRU): Côte d’Ivoire (4), Guinea (7), Liberia (9), Sierra Leone (14).
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MARUPI interaction with actual socioeconomic corridors
The creation, organisation and maintenance of public health safe economic corridors by the West
African Health Organisation during the Ebola outbreak offers the opportunity to patch the MARUPI
“socioeconomic health/wealth cluster-building” global project.
Therefore MARUPI will take any effort to enhance communication, trade exchanges and
community health support through those socioeconomic corridors.
In other words, MARUPI will take attention to build biodiesel production plants and storage
community cold chambers along those corridors as well as reinforced health facilities. Thus the
MARUPI “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster-building” global project will contribute to the MRU
development program and beyond to the whole ECOWAS.
The interaction with actual socioeconomic corridors contributes to a secure local/regional
redistribution and ensure development of many business opportunities linked to the Palm Tree
farming as well as Palm Oil processing, storage, transportation and trade.
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS): Benin (1), Burkina Faso (2), Cabo Verde (3),
Cote d’Ivoire (4), The Gambia (5), Ghana (6), Guinea (7), Guinea-Bissau (8), Liberia (9), Mali (10), Niger
(11), Nigeria (12), Senegal (13), Sierra Leone (14), Togo (15).
Mano River Union (MRU): Cote d’Ivoire (4), Guinea (7), Liberia (9), Sierra Leone (14).
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MARUPI cooperatives/corridors interactions
As stated above, MARUPI will ensure maximum redistribution in local/regional/RoW levels. In order
to achieve this goal, MARUPI thanks to its “International Steering Committee”, “MRU Task Force”
and “Funding Ofﬁce” will coordinate to subcontract with local/regional/RoW partners for
procurement and logistic aspects as well as for providing “healthcare”, “wealthcare" and
“socialcare” to the targeted population (see section “MARUPI seven steps roadmap requirements”
hereafter for more details).
Providing “healthcare”, “wealthcare" and “socialcare” will be covered by trainings and services
delivered by MARUPI Stakeholders & partners.
Trainings provided by MARUPI stakeholders & partners
Trainings provided by MARUPI teams to the beneﬁt of primary cooperative members and family
are as follow (examples) :
• palm tree farming know how
• community subsistance farming know how
• sustainable agricultural practices
• sound use of agrochemicals (how to avoid them, what are the alternatives, when, where, to what
extend and how they should be handled whenever necessary)
• safety gear and behaviours for workers
• predictive maintenance of farming tools and trucks
• wildlife, forests, and waterways preservation
• economic, social, and environmental healthy/wealthy domestic behaviours
Urban
Area
Primary
coopera,ve
Primary
coopera,ve
Primary
coopera,ve
Socioeconomic Corridor
Primary
coopera,ve
MARUPI
secondary
Coopera4ve
Healthcare
Wealthcare
Socialcare
Crude Palm Oil
Partnerships
Business
opportuni,es

• prevention of mosquitos borne diseases
• prevention of water borne diseases
• …
Services provided by MARUPI stakeholders & partners
Services provided by MARUPI teams to the beneﬁt of primary cooperative members and family are
as follow (examples):
• health care for workers and family such as community dispensary, county occupational medicine,
districts’ hospitals, …
• recruitment of Doctors (GPs & Specialists) that will make regular journeys to community
dispensary, organisation of a telemedicine network with European (english and french speaking
specialists to support local colleagues)
• papers, pens and books for local government-owned schools
• Relevant palm oil farming infrastructure such as oil mills, storage sheds, oil tanks, …
• Improved sanitation infrastructure promotion/procurement such as community cold chamber,
sewer, …
• provide valid equipment purchase lists (seedlings, tractors, trucks, powered grass cutters,
machetes, helmets, aprons, non-slip boots, belts for lifting heavy fruit bunches, …) and facilitate
liaison with providers/salers
• community household refuse processing and composts
• “Tamper Evident Seals” one-use only, non-resalable, virtually impossible to tamper with, easy to
identify and constructed of non-toxic, non-corrosive, cinch-able material.
• Clearance of food grade tankers cleaners which must food grade themselves
• Liaison facilitator with banks, insurance, regulatory bodies, state representatives, …
• …
As an example MARUPI small food grade tank trucks (11,000 L) of secondary cooperative will
convey Palm Oil from the sites of mill processing to storage tank located in the nearest urban area
of a socioeconomic corridors while subcontracted large food grade tank trucks, typically range in
capacity from 20,800 to 43,900 litres, will convey Palm Oil within socioeconomic corridors to
harbours for further trade.

MARUPI Global project overview
MARUPI Global project timeline
MARUPI Global project logical framework approach
Equipment/Service
needed
Expected achievements
2017
Step I to IV of the Roadmap - Acquire 1 000 Km2 rights to plant palm tree -
start training program for healthy life style - Start nurses training program -
Start training program for palm tree culture - Initiate plantations of both Palm
tree and local crops for population feeding
2018
Step V to VII of the Roadmap - Acquire additional 5 000 Km2 rights to plant
palm tree - Set up and initiate collection of Palm oil - set up and initiate
biodiesel production units - Set up and initiate a secure medication logistic
program - expand process to Sierra-Leone if not already done-
2019
Acquire additional 5 000 Km2 rights to plant palm tree - develop international
trade of palm oil production - Develop MARUPI rural clinics - expand process
to Guinea if not already done
2020
Acquire additional 5 000 Km2 rights to plant palm tree - keep development of
international palm oil trade - Start building MARUPI hospitals -expand
process to Côte d’Ivoire if not already done
2021
Acquire additional 5 000 Km2 rights to plant palm tree - Settle sustain
development of MARUPI global Program within ECOWAS
Narrative Summary OVI MOV Assumptions and
Preconditions
Goal
Provide a sustainable
socioeconomic health/
wealth behaviour &
environment to the
target rural MRU
population
Quantitative
improvement of
MARUPI
Statistics
regarding the
target
population
Health/Wealth
status
MARUPI
Individual &
Community
Health/Wealth
Assessment
Questionnaire
yearly
campaigns
MARUPI gets sufﬁcient
funding to initiate and
complete the seven steps
Roadmap during 2017 and
to initiate its self funding
program during 2018-2020
Purpose
Creation of small
primary cooperatives of
15‐20 farmers that grow
palm tree for trading
and for local use as
biocarburant as well as
growing traditional food
plant in between palm
trees to provide local
food support.
Number of
primary
cooperatives
afﬁliated to
MARUPI
secondary
cooperative
Covenants and
report of
activity form
primary
cooperatives
Local traditional chiefs grant
MARUPI with the right to
cultivate at least 20,000
kilometer square land

Goal: The higher level objective towards which the project is expected to contribute (mention target groups) - Purpose:
The effect which is expected to be achieved as the result of the project - Outputs: The results that the project
management should be able to guarantee (mention target groups) - Activities: The activities that have to be undertaken
by the project in order to produce outputs - Assumptions: Important events, conditions or decisions outside the control of
the project - OVI: Objectively Verifiable Indicators are measures (direct or indirect) to verify to what level fulfilment is
achieved - MOV: Means of Verification are sources of data necessary to verify status of OVI level -
Outputs
- Create a meta
cooperative that buy
palm oil from local
cooperatives and
trade that oil to
generate self funding
- Purchase and
maintenance of
community cold
chambers powered
by local production of
palm oil that are
dedicated to the safe
and healthy food
storage
- Purchase and
maintenance of oil
tanks and food grade
small trucks to store
and deliver palm oil
- Purchase and
maintenance of water
purification plants
powered by local
production of palm oil
that are dedicated to
the production of
potable water form
surface and/or
underground sources
- Purchase and
maintenance of
additional
Number of
local
cooperatives
adherent to the
meta
cooperative
Number of
running
community
cold chambers
Number of oil
tanks and food
grade small
trucks
Number of
running water
purification
plants
MARUPI local
representatives
supervision
and audit
Palm oil traders buy
MARUPI secondary
cooperative plan oil
production
Activities
- Teaching of healthy
life style behaviours
that prevent
mosquitos borne
diseases, and poor
hand hygiene borne
diseases,
- Teaching of basic
socioeconomic skills
such as family food/
clothing/school/
healthcare budget
- Teaching of palm tree
cultivation as well as
traditional crops
harvesting
Amount of
people
attending the
Teaching/
Training
programs - Use
of new
technologies
like
smartphones
apps and
videos
Registration
sheets from
teaching/
training
sessions -
number of
downloads of
video training
sessions
Expression of Interest from
potential partners translate
into actual covenants
Narrative Summary OVI MOV Assumptions and
Preconditions

MARUPI seven steps roadmap requirements
As developed above, the MARUPI seven steps roadmap is the preliminary work to perform in order
to build an appropriate MARUPI global "socioeconomic health/wealth cluster" project for the MRU
population and beyond. Thus it is of utmost importance to focus on the seven steps roadmap
requirements.
Step I requirements
In order to collect the 3000 MARUPI Individual & Community Health Assessment Questionnaire in
a convenient time and quality, we need to acquire the followings:
*compliant with the IP65 and MIL-STD-810G military standards or similar for toughness (shock, drops, water, dust resistant). ** 4GB
DATA, 250 mins , unlimited texts
Step II requirements
In order to build its International Steering Committee, MARUPI needs to recruit 5 to 10 individuals
with appropriate background and MRU situational analysis skills as well as invest in the followings:
Equipment/Service
needed
Cost/Item Quantity Total Cost What for
Laptops
performing under
tropical/desert
conditions*
£1 800 20
£36 000
to gather questionnaire
responses from interviewees
3G cellular phones
performing under
tropical/desert
conditions*
£150 20
£3 000
to get internet access even in
remote places
Pay as you go
Mobile Internet
plan operating in
West Africa**
₤25/package 20x12
£6 000
to get internet access even in
remote places
Motorbikes 125 cm3 £5 000 20
£100 000
to reach people living in remote
places
Cargo material to
Monrovia
£5 000 1
£5 000
to deliver the purchased
material to MARUPI
representative in Monrovia
Stratadviser Ltd
support for Step I
£7 250 1
£7 250
Set a reliable health and
economic data collection to
monitor the population status
within the area where MARUPI
is present
Equipment/Service
needed
Fees for
International
Steering
Committee
meetings (3
meetings/year)
₤300/
member
10x3
£9 000
Compensate for the time and
expertise provided for each one
day meetings
Equipment/Service
needed

MARUPI International Steering Committee assignments
the MARUPI International Steering Committee will validate, analyse and comment collected data
then draw conclusion and recommendations regarding the deployment of the 7 steps roadmap as
well as the global “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster” project for the MARUPI MRU Task Force.
Anticipated members of the International Steering Committee are:
1. Pr Abdul Karim Bangura Washington D.C. Metro Area (approved to participate)
2. Dr George Klay Kieh Liberian politician (approved to participate)
3. Caroline Maslo Senior Medical Advisor The Netcare Group South Africa (approved to
participate)
4. Natoueu Jean Claude Koya Ministry of Planning and Development-Côte d’Ivoire (approved to
participate)
Pending
Are you interested to join?
Send a CV and a short note on how you could actively support MARUPI and its "socioeconomic
health/wealth cluster" project as a member of the International Steering Committee to StratAdviser
contact@stratadviser.com
Being a member of the MARUPI International Steering Committee is not a permanent position.
Applicant can be located anywhere and must have a principal activity related to the MARUPI
"socioeconomic health/wealth cluster" project
Step III requirements
Costing assistance of StratAdviser regarding step III is as follow:
Transport and
accommodations
for meetings (10
members)
₤3 000/
member
10x3
£90 000
Covers 1 day trip, two hotel
nights & restaurants (meetings
to be held in London)
Meeting facility £1 500 3/year £4 500 rent of the premise
Stratadviser Ltd
support for Step II
£9 750 1
£9 750
Build a MARUPI International
Steering Committee to validate,
analyse and comment collected
data
Cost/Item Quantity Total Cost What forEquipment/Service
needed
Equipment/Service
needed
Stratadviser Ltd
support for Step III
₤2 700/
month
12
£32 400
Elicit a monthly report on those
data along with prospective
comments and calls for actions
to be disseminated among
international key decision
makers including those of
international funding bodies

Step IV requirements
In order to build its Task Force, MARUPI needs to recruit 5 individuals with appropriate background
and MRU situational analysis skills as well as invest in the followings:
MARUPI MRU Task Force assignments
The MARUPI MRU Task Force will work on 3 main themes according to MARUPI’s "socioeconomic
health/wealth cluster" project scheme:
• improving health status of the targeted population
• improving economic activity within the targeted population
• improving social cohesion of the targeted population
The MARUPI MRU Task Force will design and implement appropriate initiatives to fulfil its
assignments.
Anticipated members of the MARUPI MRU Task Force are:
Pending
health/wealth cluster" project as a member of the MARUPI MRU Task Force to StratAdviser Ltd
Being a member of the MARUPI I Task Force is not a permanent position. Applicant can be located
anywhere and must have a principal activity related to the MARUPI "socioeconomic health/wealth
cluster" project.
Step V requirements
In order to build its Funding Office, MARUPI needs to recruit 3 individuals with appropriate
background and MRU situational analysis skills as well as invest in the followings:
Equipment/Service
needed
Videoconference
monthly meeting
500 9
€4 500
Monitor both the 7 Steps Roadmap and
Global Project
Transport and
accommodations
for face to face
meetings (5
members)
₤3 000/
member
5x3
£45 000
Covers 1 day trip, two hotel
nights & restaurants (meetings
to be held in London)
Meeting facility £1 500 3/year £4 500 rent of the premise
Stratadviser Ltd
support for Step IV
₤6 500/year 1
£6 500
Create a MARUPI MRU Task Force
devoted to the priorisation, planification
and steering of regional or local
programs that respond to the calls for
actions elicited by the MARUPI
International Steering Committee

MARUPI “ assignments
The MARUPI Funding Office will develop three sets of actions:
• Identification of relevant BID from funding bodies that match MARUPI global project
• Creation and dissemination of funding campaigns thanks to social networks
• Financement of local and/or regional initiatives that fit in the "socioeconomic health/wealth
cluster" project either suggested by the MARUPI Taskforce or elicited by individuals or
communities of the target population
Anticipated members of the MARUPI Funding Office are:
Pending
health/wealth cluster" project as a member of the MARUPI Funding Office to StratAdviser Ltd
Being a member of the MARUPI I Funding Office is a full time or part time position located in
London.
Equipment/Service
needed
Stratadviser Ltd
support for Step V
12,000 ₤ 1
12,000 ₤
Establish a MARUPI Funding
Office dedicated to the
identification of relevant BID to
the Mano River area from
governments as well as
international funding bodies with
the ability to respond to those
call for tenders and win them,
along with the aim to create and
disseminate funding campaigns
thanks to social networks as
well as financing local or
regional initiatives that meet the
“socioeconomic health/wealth
cluster” project

Step VI requirements
Costing assistance of StratAdviser regarding step V is as follow:
MARUPI Purchasing Bureau assignments
The MARUPI Purchasing Bureau will be devoted to the evaluation, selection and acquisition of
requested material ad/or furbishment in order to reach the "socioeconomic health/wealth cluster"
project and its related initiatives.
Anticipated members of the MARUPI Purchasing Bureau are:
Pending
health/wealth cluster" project as a member of the MARUPI Purchasing Bureau to StratAdviser Ltd
Monrovia.
Step VII requirements
Costing assistance of StratAdviser regarding step V is as follow:
Equipment/Service
needed
Stratadviser Ltd
support for Step VI
6,500 ₤ 1
6,500 ₤
Develop a MARUPI Purchasing
Bureau specialised in the
evaluation, selection and
acquisition of requested
material ad/or furbishment
according to the MARUPI MRU
Task Force recommendations
Equipment/Service
needed
Stratadviser Ltd
support for Step VII
3,600 ₤ 3
10,800 ₤
Edit a quarterly report on
MARUPI initiatives and
activities updates to be
disseminated among
international key decision
makers including those of
international funding bodies,
without layout, providing text
only, layout cost can be
estimate

MARUPI Global project partners
MARUPI recognises several partners status. namely “Essential Partners” that are deeply involved
and thus benefit from long term collaboration covenants and specific costing processes, “Associate
Partners” that are subcontractors or suppliers which provide services or goods with special
conditions, “Preferred Partners” which are institutional/NGO partners that provide MARUPI with
non commercial support/advices and eventually get funding from MARUPI in return, “Beneficiary
Partners” that set non profit covenant with MARUPI and may get fundings from MARUPI whenever
appropriate.
MARUPI recognises an additional category named “Essential Contributors” that designates
Funding Bodies and individuals that contributed to the initial 2017-2019 fund raising sessions.
Those will be mentioned in all communication material elicited by MARUPI.
Additional Partners of the MARUPI seven step roadmap & “socioeconomic
health/wealth cluster” Global project are:
Pending
Send a short note on how you could actively support MARUPI and its "socioeconomic health/
wealth cluster" project as Associate or Preferred Partner to StratAdviser Ltd
Monrovia.
Partners Contribution Status
StratAdviser Ltd
Design and methodological assistance of the
MARUPI seven step roadmap & “socioeconomic
health/wealth cluster” Global project
Essential Partner  
(covenant)
Carpetier-avocats
Legal adviser and recipient of all funds on behalf
of MARUPI
Essential Partner
(designated)
Local Community
Leaders
Own the land and grant MARUPI the right to
develop palm tree culture
Beneficiary Partner  
(ongoing convenants)
WAHO
Validate the health educational program within
the MARUPI “socioeconomic health/wealth
cluster” Global project
Preferred Partner  
(Expression of Interest)
AFBD
Contributor of the MARUPI seven step roadmap
& “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster” Global
project
Potential Partner 
(Pending)
MUTSANTU
Provider of a social and health protection of the
populations, in rural as well as urban area
The Global Fund to
Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and
Malaria
Contributor of the MARUPI seven step roadmap
& “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster” Global
project
Senghor University
Design and deliver teaching/training sessions for
french speaking MRU/ECOWAS state members
Preferred Partner  

Conclusion & Perspectives
The MARUPI Individual & Community Health Assessment Questionnaire gather more relevant data
than available ones that can be found in reference databases such as the WHO.
More than that, it allows to better hierarchise and prioritise Health and social programs to match
actual needs of the Mano River Union population.
Down the process, the MARUPI’s “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster” project will develop the
followings:
• Self sustainability through training in farming skills and income generation activities which help
the target population to grow enough to feed and support themselves and their herds
• Clean water and sanitation
• Basic & advanced health programmes
•
Funding bodies are ensured that:
1. the MARUPI’s “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster” project adopts a holistic approach
throughout all project stages and have a well deﬁned “exit strategy” (anticipated self funding)
2. the MARUPI’s “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster” project is being delivered at the grass-
roots level through an established and proven delivery partner who is fully engaged with the
local community
3. the MARUPI’s “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster” project clearly demonstrates the local
communities involvement and that it delivers necessary training and education to sustain the
project beyond the delivery partner’s departure
4. the MARUPI’s “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster” project demonstrates that robust
governance and monitoring procedures are in place
Contact us for more info
StratAdviser Ltd  
(ofﬁcial representative of MARUPI regarding both the “seven steps roadmap” and the “socioeconomic health/wealth cluster”)
2nd Floor, Berkeley Square House,
London,
W1J 6BD UK
Phone: +44 (0) 207 8874510
Fax:+44 (0) 207 8876001
 
or Call Dr Jan-Cedric Hansen +33 (0) 6 31 83 08 68 
Email; jc.hansen@stratadviser.com

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