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Enhancing food security and
livelihoods through access to fuel-
efficient technology in Ethiopia
WFP works to ensure that the food assistance it
provides can be consumed as safely and
nutritiously as possible. While cooking seems a safe
activity, in many circumstances, especially in
humanitarian settings, it poses serious health,
safety and environmental risks. Many of WFP’s
target populations live in countries prone to natural
hazards, with high levels of environmental
degradation.
The Fuel Efficient Stoves for Ethiopia
Programme of Activity is a voluntary small-scale
energy efficiency initiative, registered under the
Clean Development Mechanism (as part of the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change, or UNFCCC) that addresses problems
related with cooking and energy needs of food
insecure populations in rural Ethiopia, living in a
fragile or highly degraded ecosystems. As part of
WFP’s food assistance programmes, this initiative
aims to distribute approximately 200,000 fuel
efficient cook-stoves to food insecure people in
Tigray, Amhara, Oromia, the Southern Nations
Nationalities and Peoples (SNNPR) and Somali
regions, as well as to refugee camps in Gambela,
Benishangul and Afar.
This initiative has been certified with the Gold
Standard, the most widely respected and rigorous
certification standard globally for carbon offset
projects. In addition to ensuring the project
reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the Gold
Standard guarantees that it provides benefits to the
local population, including higher community
involvement, positive impacts on their well-being
and their environment.
Project Overview/Aim
The Fuel Efficient Stoves for Ethiopia
Programme of Activity started in 2014, and has
completed the first issuance of Certified Emission
Reduction under the Clean Development
Mechanism (CDM). Implemented through WFP’s
Managing Environmental Resources to Enable
Transitions to More Sustainable Livelihoods and the
School Meals programmes, Fuel Efficient Stove
project aims to achieve the following:
Ethiopia Improved Cook-stove Initiative
World Food Programme
Ethiopia Improved Cook-stove Initiative
Distribution of fuel-efficient cook-stoves
to 100,000 food insecure households in
environmentally degraded areas in rural
Ethiopia.
Introduction of two types of improved stoves
(Mirt and Tikikil) to cover the main types of
cooking needs of households (injera baking
and cooking of sauces).
Improved the energy efficiency of cooking
fuel.
Potential emission reduction is up to 43,097
tCO2e per year over the course of the
project. This is equivalent to the emission of
21,548 middle size cars or 3,747 West
Europeans per year.
Improve beneficiaries’ livelihoods and food
security by reducing fuel-wood consumption
for cooking purposes, and decreasing the
extent of deforestation and land degradation.
Diminishing indoor air pollution from wood
smoke and improving health conditions of
women and small children.
Diminishing households’ expenditures on
fuelwood.
Highlights from the first monitoring
report of the implementation of the
first CPA
In 2014, Ethipia Country-office, with the support of
Atmosfair, conducted a monitoring exercise as part
of the CDM registration for the first Component
Project Activity (CPA), with the following findings:
Households have access to affordable and
clean energy services, with total of 22,168
cook-stoves distributed in the Amhara region
(East Belesa and Ebenat), reaching 11,084
households.
People’s level of acceptance of the improved
cook-stove is 100% for Mirt and 96.7% for
Tikikil.
100% of households perceived better air
quality in kitchens due to the use of the
improved cook-stove.
100% of households confirmed that they
need less time and/or less money due to
reduced amount of fuelwood needed for
cooking.
The stoves have reduced the quantity of
fuelwood used by 50%
The improved cook-stoves are locally
produced, generating around 382 new jobs in
the area.
Efficiency gain due to the adoption of the
improved cook-stove is 60.64% for Mirt and
65.56% for Tikikil, in comparison with the
traditional three-stone-fire.
Each fuel-efficient cook-stove reduces
approx. 1.2 tCO2e (Tikikil stove) and 1,4
tCO2e (Mirt stove) per year over the course
of its lifetime.
A total of 24, 458 tCO2e has been reduced
during the first monitoring period from
15/11/2014 – 14/11/2015.
Partnerships and relevance at country
level
The initiative supports the Government’s Climate
Resilient Green Economy Strategy and the Fuel
Wood-Efficient Stoves Investment Plan 2012-2015,
both of which identify the distribution of fuel
efficient stoves as one of the major initiatives to
increase household income, reduce deforestation,
reduce indoor air pollution and abate GHG
emissions. WFP collaborates closely with both
regional governments and relevant national
ministries, such as the Ministry of Water and
Energy, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of
Education, and the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry, as well key stakeholders such as the
German Corporation for International Cooperation
(GIZ). Distribution is based upon WFP’s
accumulated experience through MERET, the
Refugee Programme and the School Meals
Programme, creating synergies with their natural
resource management, protection and education
activities.
Issuance of CERs under the first CPA
Next Steps
The issuance of 24,458 Certified Emission
Reduction (CERs) has been authorized by the
UNFCCC. Currently the CERs are labelled with the
Gold Standard label. As a next step it has to be
decided if the process for the second monitoring
period (15/11/2015 – 14/11/2016) shall start in
2017.
Revelant resources
Detailed information of the project: Programme of
Activities
Information about methodologies used and CDM
registration: Fuel Efficient Stoves for Ethiopia Programme
of Activity
Detailed information of the First Component of
Programme of Activities (CPA 001)
Gold standard project information and documentation Fuel
efficient stoves for Ethiopia PoA
World Food Programme [email protected]/[email protected] December 2016