West Guji improved cook stove distribution project (GS 11187)

Abstract

Purpose and general description of project West Guji improved cook stove distribution project is a small sale project designed to replace three stone/ open fire stoves using locally produced improved cooking stoves in households of coffee farmers of Nensebo, Gelana, Kercha, Abaya and Bule-hora districts of Oromia region. The will be implemented in a remote rural area and is characterized by low improved cooking technology penetration. Target households are coffee producer farmers and are using open fire cooking to meet their energy demand. 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 (end users). The Cooking is a rocket stove that has been adopted to suit the cooking requirements of most Ethiopian households and designed for local production techniques. The second stove is baking stove used for baking purpose. Together, both technologies will displace traditional cooking stoves for all household cooking needs. The project will target 15,000 households in which each household receiving two project stoves as package and the households can be reached through the OCFCU network (primary cooperatives). The project will initiate local production of improved stove by establishing and capacitating small and micro enterprises (SMEs) in each district. These SMEs produce the stoves and sell to farmers in the target area. The improved stoves will be subsidized by loan from OCFCU which will be reimbursed from the carbon sales.