Oromia Cookstove Distribution Project

Abstract

Description of project activity A.1. Purpose and general description of project activity >> Oromia Improved Cook Stove Dissemination Project is a small scale project activity that will introduce Improved Cook Stoves hereinafter referred to as ICSs or appliances within the terrestrial boundaries of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The ICSs shall reduce the non renewable biomass consumption required to provide thermal energy for domestic cooking requirements. The project is implemented by Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union. The project will disseminate two improved cook stoves, one for cooking and the other for baking, in each project household. The Tikikil stove (for Cooking) is a rocket stove with skirt that has been adopted to suit the cooking requirements of most Ethiopian households and designed for local production techniques; and hence named “Tikikil” meaning “Appropriate”. The second stove is named Mirt and is used for injera baking purpose. Together, both technologies will displace traditional cooking stoves for all household cooking needs. The key partners of the project are Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network, Oromia Water, Irrigation and Energy Bureau, Fairclimate Fund and ICCO. The project will target 20,000 households each receiving the two project stoves as package and the households can be reached through the OCFCU network throughout Oromia, selling to the broader community. The ICSs distributed in the project activity are point of use cooking appliances targeted at rural/urban poor households who rely on traditional wood stoves or low efficiency cook stoves in Ethiopia. As most households, particularly in rural areas, use highly energy-inefficient open fires or three stone, the hearths and environmental huge. The dissemination of technologies that reduce fuel wood consumption offers both environmental and socioeconomic benefits. The appliances distributed will reduce non-renewable biomass consumption and in so doing abate GHG emissions. The improved thermal efficiency of the ICSs will reduce fuel consumption, levels of indoor air pollution and the time and effort/money required to collect/purchase fuel. The use of non renewable biomass for thermal energy generation at the domestic level has numerous adverse environmental, economic and social effects. While the project activity will not completely displace the use of non-renewable biomass, the reduction in the quantities of biomass consumed will have the following sustainable development benefits within the project boundary. • Environmental benefits: I. Reduced Indoor Air Pollution II. Abated GHG emissions throughout the lifetime of the project activity III. Reduced pressure on forest resources for non woody biomass either as woody biomass directly or in its derivative form as charcoal. • Social Aspects I. Reduced household expenditure on treatment of IAP related illnesses II. Reduced expenditure/distances travelled to purchase/collect firewood III. Reduce the domestic burden of women and children (girls) who are often burdened with the collection of wood fuel and cooking. • Economic benefits I. The project activity will stimulate the creation of local jobs for assembly, distribution and maintenance tasks requisite for the implementation of the project activity.