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Voucher (CAV) Creation

This is a summary of a group Voucher creation process using Commitment Pooling. A group of service providers (e.g., tomato sellers, school teachers, hairdressers) come together to create a commons centered around their contributions. See the glossary for field terminology and the CLC Getting Started guide for current App behavior and limitations.

Awareness

  1. Workshops: Meetings with regional and local stakeholders to explain the Commitment Pooling concept and answer all questions. These workshops should be done yearly and when stakeholders change (e.g., new administration or area chief).

Training

  1. Intro: Group introductions, setting of intentions (prayers), historical overview and introduction to Commitment Pooling and CAVs.
  2. Resource Mapping: Communities map out resources and needs. The training guide helps reveal what each member can offer and what they can redeem.
  3. Learning through Games: Demonstrations using the bean game in our Community Training Guide help simulate a pool. The thread game visualizes the network of trust and commitment.
  4. Account and Wallet Setup: Participants open the CLC App to create or access an account and wallet where the deployment supports their intended activity. Training must cover credential protection, available recovery methods, transaction review, and the limits described in the current documentation.
  5. Voucher Declaration: Using the supported CLC voucher-creation flow, issuers describe a commitment, its quantity, associated Offering, responsible issuer, and fulfillment terms.
  6. Member Commitments: Members decide what each one can commit to redeem for others' vouchers. These are registered into the pool as promises.
  7. Final Demo Game: Re-play the bean game to reinforce understanding of redemption, expiration, and trust flows.
  8. Leaving Forms: Voucher declaration forms are left with the group to complete collectively.

Support Creation and Audit

  1. Follow-ups: To assist with any onboarding issues or clarification.
  2. Audits and Conflict Mitigation: Internal and external audits help ensure that all commitments can reasonably be fulfilled. Mediators help resolve non-redemption or disputes.
  3. Agreements Signed:
  4. Economic Commons Agreement: Terms of participation in the broader ecosystem.
  5. Voucher Declaration / Membership Agreement: Defines the unit of account, redemption commitments, pool limits, expiration, mediation and internal fund rules.

  6. Service Agreement: With a Core Service Provider like Grassroots Economics for platform access, training, and arbitration.

  7. Minting / Voucher Creation: Where the active deployment accepts and completes the flow, the relevant token and App records are created. Token creation does not by itself prove issuer capacity, fulfillment, redemption, value, or a guarantee by Grassroots Economics.

  8. Initial Voucher Distribution: Any initial distribution, reserve, expiration, or redistribution follows the issuer's published terms, the Pool's rules, and the capabilities of the active deployment. Do not assume these mechanisms exist unless they are expressly disclosed.

Review and Launch Preparation

  1. Review: Reinforce understanding of how Commitment Pooling works.
  2. Chama Book: The issuing group should regularly track balances and fulfillment.
  3. Marketing Materials: Placards and signs help participants communicate that they accept specific CAVs.
  4. Social Fabric Map: Visually track connections between members.
  5. Launch Prep: Plan event logistics, engage elders and leaders, explain issuer and Pool responsibilities, and direct participants to the current CLC App only where the intended workflow is supported.

Launching and Continued Support

  1. Greater Community Outreach: Issuers can grow the pool by helping others trust and accept CAVs. This “braiding” expands the network of care.
  2. Long-Term Maintenance: Imbalances may occur. Regular market days and community meetings can clear debt and reconnect trust. Use expiration (demurrage) to encourage circulation and prevent hoarding.

A healthy Commitment Pool flows like a river of care—not stored as stagnant capital.

Last update: 2026-09-30
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