energy efficient cookstoves project tembea

Tembea Youth Centre

for Sustainable

DevelopmentENERGY EFFICIENT COOKSTOVES FOR

SIAYA COMMUNITIES PROJECT.

Presentation at:

PHE WORKSHOP

SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT - NAIROBI

26th to 28th July 2012 1

Presentation Outline

Background information

Core elements of the project

Project Status - where we are..

Project set-up

Milestones

Nature conservation in the context of ICS offset project

Challenges – in implementation and efforts to address

them

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Background information

The project aims to construct energy efficient cook stoves for rural communities in the Siaya, County

Rural villages such as Siaya, the supply of modern energy carriers such as electricity and fossil fuels is very limited and expensive.

In Siaya county only 1.4% of the population use electricity for lighting and only 0.1% for cooking purpose. To meet their basic energy needs households rely on locally available biomass fuels such as firewood and also occasionally charcoal: almost 90% of households use firewood for cooking and 9% use charcoal for preparing their meals.

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Households in Siaya county traditionally cook on open fires consisting of 3 stones, in this way burning large amounts of fuel wood in a very inefficient way.



This has severe impacts at the social (e.g. health) and environmental levels (e.g. deforestation, CO2-emissions).

This project aims to mitigate these impacts by introducing energy efficient cook stoves to Siaya communities in Kenya. The efficient cook stove is a biomass rocket stove designed for burning wood and consisting of two cooking units that can be separately fired. The stove is fixed and installed in households


Project Core Elements

1. Construction of efficient cookstoves

2. Community Savings and Loaning (CSL)

3. Climate Education, Awareness and nature

conservation


Construction in progress


Community Savings and Loaning

(CSL) Community saving and loaning is a local

capital mobilization methodology that seeksto address the unmet needs of the poorhouseholds brought about by poverty as wellas the existing gap in the major financialservices providers like the banks andinsurance companies.

Savings- led microfinance groups lead tofinancial and social empowerment ofindividuals, households and communities,creating a platform for holistic communitydevelopment on which community-basedproblem solving flourishes.TEMBEA YOUTH CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 9

CS&L Benefits

It provides very poor households with

effective, low cost means of improving

livelihood security. The financial, social

and human capital that locals especially

women develop through regular saving-

led micro-finance group meetings is

transferred to an amazing array of

actions that result in behavior change.


It provides platform for community

members to embrace e-banking

innovations enhancing financial

deepening & stabilizing rural financial

markets.

These groups use their socio-political

and economic positions and group clout

to lobby for change and realize a myriad

of developmental endeavors for their

communities.


It provides an opportunity for the poor to

acquire essential but costly household

assets such as the energy efficient

cook stoves out of their long term

savings under the ASSET BASED

FUND component that the community

members are trained and closely

monitored to operationalize among the

self selected group members.



It enhances social inclusion among thecommunity members by regularly meetingevery week to apart from saving and loaningalso brainstorms on the possible ways ofuplifting group members to springeconomically and possible ways ofcushioning members who might be facedwith emergencies such as deaths, hospitalbills other emergencies that are specifiedand approved in their self preparedconstitution. This is done under the CSLmicro-insurance scheme that all themembers subscribe to through weeklycontribution of a uniform amount of moneyand collected as the SOCIAL FUND.

CS&L transactional meetings


CS&L transaction meeting


CS&L Training Modules


CSL consist of 6 comprehensive modules:

Module 1: Individual Self Screening

Module 2: Group Formation and Governance

Module 3: Policies and Regulations

Module 4: Development of CSL Constitution

Module 5: Written Record Keeping and management of Meeting

Module 6: Meeting Procedures, Share out and graduation

Climate Education, Awareness

and nature conservation Awareness creation is conducted

through locational’s Chief Barazas,

churches, schools

CS&L groups plays critical role in

community mobilization and

sensitization of households in taking

up the efficient cookstoves…..

Promotion of alternative livelihood

ventures


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Project status and milestones

Applicant GS879 – Registration pathway…

1. Local stakeholders consultative meeting done

2. Kitchen survey and Kitchen Test and analysis complete –May 2011

3. PDD and GS Passport writing – Sept 2011

4. Validation/visits and completion of technical review -FVReport

5. Stakeholder feedback round

6. Registration – running parallel to monitoring and usage survey July 2012

7. 1st Verification Period

8. 1st Issuance – June 2013

9. 6274 cookstoves constructed in corresponding households

10. 233 community savings and loaning groups established and operating


Estimated amount of emission

reductions

Years(starting 01 January and

ending 31 December)

Annual estimation of emission

reductions in tonnes of CO2e

2011 4,203

2012 17,327

2013 31,188

2014 45,049

2015 58,910

2016 72,771

2017 86,633

Total emission reductions (tonnes of

CO2e)

316,080

Total number of crediting years 7

Annual average over the crediting

period of estimated reductions (tonnes

of CO2e)

45,154

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Project status and milestones

CS&L reached have helped mobilize

over 5,928 households

CS&L net saving value of saving over

KES 2,854,950.80 as of 31st May

2012.

Over 70% of the households

accessing efficient cookstoves through

CS&L

50 Artisans (31 men, 19 women)

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ICS and nature conservation

From the FT (Kitchen test) we know that a Tembea stove uses 1.32t of fuel wood per year. With an energy content of fuel wood being 15GJ/t and its being a rocket type stove with thermal efficiency being at most 33%, then potential useful energy in a year is 6.53 GJ (1.32t x 15GJ x 0.33). This energy is delivered in at least 1hour 30min (30 minutes breakfast, 30 minutes lunch time and 30 minutes supper time) a day, which translates to at least 1.971 million seconds in a year. Hence the power rating of the Tembea stove is about 3.3 kW (6.53GJ/1.971 M sec). This is far away less than 150KW thermal power output threshold for technologies under this methodology.

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Project Project Land Cover and land

Area


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Land cover and land area – Siaya County

Land cover types Hectares

Rainfed herbaceous crop 110704.5

(Scattered) Rainfed herbaceous crop (field density 20-

40% of polygon area) 84342.3

(Isolated ) Rainfed herbaceous crop (field density 10-

20% polygon area) 4032.196

(Scattered) Rainfed tree crop (field density 20-40% of

polygon area) 30658.02

Rice fields 2857.402

Closed trees 94.348

Very open trees (40-15% crown cover) 381.317

Closed shrubs 367.726

Open (general) shrubs (65-15% crown cover) 710.028

Open to closed herbaceous vegetation on temporarily

flooded 1459.063

Closed herbaceous vegetation on permanently

flooded land 11936.69

Urban and associated areas, rural settlements 304.928

Natural water bodies 2054.176

Total Area 249,903

Area without water bodies and urban centre 247,544TEMBEA YOUTH CENTRE

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Baseline and Project non-renewable

biomass (NRB) assessment

The renewability status of fuel wood has been analysed within Siaya County, which is considered as the plausible collection area for fuel wood in the project. The analysis shows that there is more fuel wood that is used from the available stock within Siaya County than can re-grow. This fraction of non-renewable biomass is calculated as 75.99%. The figure is supported by qualitative figures, which show a high biomass deficit of 72.07% for Nyanza province. TEMBEA YOUTH CENTRE

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Challenges and efforts to address

them

Need for Structured training: Toensure consistence and quality, thetraining offered must continue to bemonitored and be consistent both incontent and approach, providingroom for continuous stoveimprovement.◦ This requires strategic partnership with

institution of higher learning andproportionate investment.


challanges

Awareness and educational

materials: Relative increase in

demand for the efficient cookstoves

have been observed in the recent

past, posing pressure on project

scope. Hence, the need for sufficient

investment in awareness and

education both for users and potential

clients – leading to subsequent

customer satisfaction..


Challenges


Vastness of the Project area – As the projectmoves into full scale, there shall be need forstructured and efficient monitoring schemeadopted. Requiring additionalmotorcycles/vehicle, and field based offices.

Socio-economic capacities of targetcommunity; the communities targeted by thisproject, are faced with high poverty levels andhigh unemployment. A new dimension that isaffecting project success is the increase in fossilfuel prices that ends up having an impact in localcommodity prices and more so food stuff. Thistranslates to a decline in spending on non fooditems, consequently leading to late/delayedrepayment at CSL groups.

Key Lessons learnt..

Inherent socio-economic challenges facing

communities is not be a hindrance to

creating for demand clean household

energy, thus, integration of a flexible

savings led microfinance forms an integral

part with far reaching benefits

environmentally, socially, and economically.

Flexible project –financial planning and

creativity yields results especially when

dealing with communities that have pre-

arranged seasons and/or activities in the

annual calendar.TEMBEA YOUTH CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 31

Lessons Learnt…

Working with a host of local

stakeholders, government agencies and

community networks has far reaching

impacts and inherent benefits to the

project beneficiaries, whereas

overcoming systemic obstacles that pose

threat to continuation/scaling up- of

project such as this.

Opportunities for research and

development for knowledge

dissemination and community based

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Lessons Learnt…

Working with schools can yield better

results in adaptation of the project

ideals, especially with regard to linking

activities with climate change and

CO2 emissions. More environmental

clubs should be established in the

schools with catchments in the project

areas.


THANK YOU

Buoga Jared Omondi, E.Director,

TEMBEA

P.O. Box 313 – 40606 Ugunja, Kenya

Tel: +254722588675

Email: [email protected]

Webpage: www.tembea.org


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