The Alliance has compiled some of the most useful information about the cookstoves and fuels sectors to populate this searchable database, including market assessments, consumer behavior and preference information, and other research studies. The database will be updated frequently as we continue to build our knowledge database, and as always we appreciate our partners’ input. If you have any reports or research to add to this database, please send it to knowledge@cleancookstoves.org
The overall objective of the assignment is to collect sufficient information to allow for an assessment and decision by CARE and the Danish Energy Agency on project focus and scope of a CDM Program of Activities on improved cook stoves project in Northern Ghana.
The presentation includes: An overview of poverty measurement methods and options using HIES 2005 Poverty and inequality trends Trends in non-income measures of socio-economic status Trends in extreme poverty and characteristics of the extreme poor
The proposed project will disseminate ICSs that are constructed individually by local technicians trained and acting under a contractual basis on behalf of the PO. The stoves which will initially be installed are made of mud and/or brick and have as accessories a chimney with a cap and grates.
The project is initially focused on the replacement of traditional charcoal stoves with very low efficiencies (locally known as “coal-pots”) with an improved stove, known as the Gyapa. The Gyapa differs from the coalpot by virtue of having a combustion chamber which is heavily insulated with a ceramic liner. Three sizes of charcoal-burning Gyapa are distributed by the project.
Government of Mexico's climate change program details.
The project described here will reduce greenhouse emissions by disseminating fuel-efficient charcoal stoves. The project is based on pilot work by Toyola Energy Limited (TEL), Ghana. TEL was established in 2003. It is owned and managed by highly educated and trained entrepreneurs. TEL was part of 50 informal metal artisans selected and trained by EnterpriseWorks Worldwide to fabricate the “GYAPA” charcoal efficient cook stoves. More recently, TEL renamed their product. Toyola’s stove is now marketed and sold under the name “Toyola Coalpot”, which is the stove being introduced in this project. The stove also has several differentiating design features from the original GYAPA that allow it to be uniquely identified in the field. See annex 4 for specific design features that allow the stoves to be uniquely identified.
This manual has been developed to provide help in the planning and implementation of the proposed IAP reducing pilot initiative in respect of service delivery, capacity building of the operational staff, and empowering the user communities, local government institutions, entrepreneurs as well as the management. The manual will help presenting the participatory tools/techniques and methodologies which will be put into practice for initiation, implementation, monitoring and finally, evaluation of the pilot project. The manual is a handy package of participatory process facilitation tools/techniques that need to be conceived, understood and assimilated professionally by the users so that the actors yield the maximum output while in action.
The objective of BCCRF is to support the implementation of Bangladesh’s Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan for 2009-2018. The Bangladesh Government leads on the management and implementation of BCCRF. On behalf of the contributing Development Partners, and in consultation with the Government of Bangladesh, the World Bank, for a limited duration, is ensuring due diligence requirements on the BCCRF (including fiduciary management, transparency and accountability) and is ensuring projects are implemented with due regard to economy, efficiency and effectiveness.
The current volume includes analyses of data from a number of new perspectives. The first chapter contains an overview of the microfinance sector. The remaining chapters cover information in detail as provided by the NGO-MFIs.
An update on the Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF). This edition includes an interview with Dr. Hasan Mahmud, Honorable Minister, Ministry of Environment and Forests.
Population and marginality levels of indigenous municipalities in Mexico.
This paper studies the behavioral underpinnings of low demand for a technology with substantial implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. We conduct a multi-pronged field experiment in rural Bangladesh to investigate two commonly-cited reasons for low demand: (1) intra-household externalities and (2) tradition-based aversion. On the former, we find that women – who bear disproportionate cooking costs – have stronger preference for improved stoves, especially health-saving stoves, but lack the authority to make purchases. On the latter, we find that revealing information about technology choices by respected community members sharing common traditions influences adoption decisions more for technologies lacking self-evident benefits and more before common experience accumulates. Overall, our findings suggest that (1) if women cannot make independent choices, public policy may not be able to exploit gender differences in preferences to promote technology adoption absent broader social change; and (2) marketing and persuasion techniques may only increase adoption temporarily and may be less effective for technologies that households can evaluate for themselves.
Summary of the Government of Mexico Ministry of Agriculture's climate change mitigation targets and progress.
What possible better use for high-efficiency clean-burning fossil fuels such as LPG than providing high-quality energy services for poor households? There are no realistic resource or greenhouse constraints to keep us from targeting the needs of the poorest with LPG in places where renewable technologies are not yet appropriate or sustainable. In addition, there are clear health benefits of doing so. The World Health Organization (WHO), for example, has recently estimated that some 1.6 million premature deaths each year come from the use of solid fuels (biomass and coal) in poor households. Rather than excluding petroleum, some of this one-time gift from nature ought actually to be reserved to help fulfill our obligation to bring the health and welfare of all people to a reasonable level: an essential goal of sustainable development, no matter how defined.
Most families in Ghanaian towns and cities cook with charcoal using a metal grate or ‘coal-pot’ that burns very inefficiently and uses a lot of fuel wood. This has serious consequences in Ghana where the rate of deforestation is one of the highest in Africa. The Ghana Stoves project introduces the Gyapa, an insulated and efficient cook stove, to families in Ghana. The Gyapa stove cooks food more quickly, requires less fuel and is less smoky. Carbon finance allows the stoves to be marketed at an affordable price, whilst building on manufacturing skills, marketing channels and the fuel supply chain.
Compative study of improved biomass cookstoves that the government of Mexico considered for their national cookstove program in 2009. Only stoves with chimney were considered. The assessment covered efficiency, cooking speed, emissions, durability and beneficiary adoption.
Worldwide, more than three billion people depend on solid fuels, including biomass (wood, dung and crop residues) and coal, for cooking and heating. Exposure to indoor air pollution from solid fuels has been linked to many different diseases, including acute and chronic respiratory diseases, tuberculosis, asthma, cardiovascular disease and perinatal health outcomes. A recent review concluded that there is strong evidence for indoor air pollution as a cause of pneumonia and other acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) among children under five years of age, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer (in relation to coal use) among adults. Only these three diseases were included in the assessment of the burden of disease from indoor air pollution.
Part 3 of a document that addresses the concept of marginalization from different points of view in an effort to understand the definition of marginalization and how it is measured. This section looks at the marginalization of localities.
Part 2 of a document that addresses the concept of marginalization from different points of view in an effort to understand the definition of marginalization and how it is measured. This section looks at differing perspectives by location.
Part 1 of a document that addresses the concept of marginalization from different points of view in an effort to understand the definition of marginalization and how it is measured. The first part includes different concepts of exclusion and marginalization and establishes the relationship between poverty, exclusion and marginalization. It emphasizes the effect of marginalization on democracy and participation, and emphasize importance of measuring and tracking marginalization for the design of public and social policy.
The World Health Organization’s 2004 Global and Regional Burden of Disease Report estimates that acute respiratory infections from indoor air pollution (pollution from burning wood, animal dung, and other bio-fuels) kill a million children annually in developing countries, inflicting a particularly heavy toll on poor families in South Asia and Africa. This paper reports on an experiment that studied the use of construction materials, space configurations, cooking locations, and household ventilation practices (use of doors and windows) as potentially-important determinants of indoor air pollution. Results from controlled experiments in Bangladesh are analyzed to test whether changes in these determinants can have significant effects on indoor air pollution. Analysis of the data shows, for example, that pollution from the cooking area diffuses into living spaces rapidly and completely. Furthermore, it is important to factor in the interaction between outdoor and indoor air pollution. Among fuels, seasonal conditions seem to affect the relative severity of pollution from wood, dung, and other biomass fuels. However, there is no ambiguity about their collective impact. All are far dirtier than clean fuels. The analysis concludes that if cooking with clean fuels is not possible, then building the kitchen with porous construction material and providing proper ventilation in cooking areas will yield a better indoor health environment.
Under the World Bank project ‘Bangladesh: Addressing Indoor Air Pollution (IAP)’, an attempt has been made to develop a technical manual of Improved Cooking Stove technology to be used in a pilot project ‘Mitigation of IAP in the rural area of Bangladesh’ and for those who are interested. Seven models of ICSs have been selected for delineation in this technical manual. Participants from a number of organizations working on propagation of ICSs in Bangladesh brainstormed and selected the ICS models for discussion in the manual. This manual briefly and precisely describes the kitchen systems, general designs and construction principles of the seven suitable ICS models with detailed drawings, pictures of components, raw materials required and step by step construction procedures.
This study was undertaken to assess the potential of two types of improved cookstoves to reduce indoor air pollution in African homes. An ethanol stove, the CleanCook, was tested in three locations in Ethiopia: the city of Addis Ababa and the Bonga and Kebribeyah Refugee Camps, while a wood-burning rocket stove, the Gyapa, was evaluated in Accra, Ghana. In both countries, kitchen concentrations of PM2.5 and CO, the two pollutants responsible for the bulk of the ill-health associated with indoor smoke, were monitored in a before and after study design without controls. Baseline (‘before’) measurements were made in households using a traditional stove or open fire. ‘After’ measurements were performed in the same households, once the improved stove had been introduced. PM2.5 was measured using UCB Particle Monitors, which have photoelectric detectors. CO was measured with Onset HOBO Loggers. In Ghana and Kebribeyah Camp, CO was also measured with Gastec diffusion tubes. In Ghana, average 24-hour PM2.5 concentrations decreased 52% from 650 μg/m3 in the 'before' phase to 320 μg/m3 in the 'after' phase (p=0.00), and average 24-hour kitchen CO concentrations decreased 40% from 12.3 ppm to 7.4 ppm (p=0.01). Including all three subgroups in Ethiopia, average PM2.5 concentrations decreased 84% from 1 250 μg/m3 to 200 μg/m3 (p=0.00) and average CO concentrations decreased 76% from 38.9 ppm to 9.2 ppm (p=0.00). 24-hour average CO levels in households using both the Gyapa and CleanCook stoves met, or nearly met, the World Health Organization (WHO) 8-hour Air Quality Guideline. PM2.5 concentrations were well above both the WHO 24-hour Guideline and Interim Targets. Therefore, despite the significant improvements associated with both of these stoves, further changes in stove or fuel type or household fuel mixing patterns would be required to bring PM to levels that are not considered harmful to health.
Bangladesh’s situation is typical of most developing countries, i.e., additional funds to pursue sustainable development are not available even though decision makers may be aware of the correct strategy. The scarcity of resources can become so critical that in many cases a path contrary to that of sustainable development is followed. Often policy makers do not understand the implications of the development path they are pursuing. Capacity building of government agencies therefore is essential in charting a sustainable energy development path.
A detailed overview of the Gyapa stove supply chain. Includes ceramicist, stockist, manufacturer, retailer, and customer.
EnterpriseWorks/VITA is promoting a Kenyan sourced alternative called the Gyapa (meaning ‘good fire’) stove which is produced in three sizes. A ceramic liner improves fuel-efficiency by up to 50% and the stoves are marketed with the slogan ‘it’s already cooked’. This article describes the program and related marketing campaign.
This report presents the main results of the Fifth Round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS 5) with Non-Farm Household Enterprise Module. The field work covered a period of 12 months (September 2005 to September 2006). The survey instruments and methodology were based on those of the fourth round with some minimal modifications. The GLSS 5 is a nation-wide survey which collected detailed information of topics, including demographic characteristics of the population, education, health, employment and time use, migration, housing conditions and household agriculture.
The Ghana Country Environment Analysis (CEA) has been formulated to assist the Government of Ghana and its development partners to: (a) assess the country’s environmental priorities, the environmental implications of key economic and sector policies, and the country’s institutional capacity to address them; and (b) find practical management, institutional, and policy solutions to handle issues of natural resource management, environmental degradation, and sustainability of growth. The two main outputs of this CEA are (a) a comprehensive report that provides—for each sector/asset—an overview of the sector and its contribution to growth, an analysis of the underlying causes of degradation (with a specific focus on policy, regulatory, and institutional issues and applying public expenditure review as an analytical tool), and a set of implementable recommendations to address these issues; and (b) a set of policy/action matrixes that provide—for each sector/asset—a road map for action in the short, medium, and long-term. Whenever possible, these matrixes are accompanied by financial matrixes that identify the financial requirements for and financial gaps in the implementation of the proposed actions.
The objective of the study to establish the level of FBOs /farmers’ engagement in boosting local food production through the GSFP in the Greater Accra Region; this is in accordance with the third objectives of the programme. The study was examined under the following headings; Effectiveness of FBOs in the study area, Farmers’ willingness to market their farm produce to the GSFP, Commonly cultivated crops in the study area and the quantities that farmers are willing to supply to the GSFP and benefit of the GSFP to the farmers.
Ghana in Figures” is an annual publication by which the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) satisfies the needs of the general public, and more generally promotes the goal of enhancing the effectiveness of policy-making. Selected basic indicators on demographic and socio-economic conditions in Ghana intended to provide a quick statistical reference on the country are presented in the handbook.