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Stove programme guidelines for CILSS


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Boiling Point
Front cover of Boiling Point issue 11
Issue 11 (1986) Successful Stove Dissemination
ArticleStove programme guidelines for CILSS
CILSS has produced a very attractive little booklet to give its member states the following guidelines on stove programme strategies.

[top] [end]Booklet for the recommendations made at regional seminars during the first phase of the CILSS regional project

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[top] [end]Forward

Within the framework of drought control, CILSS set up the Regional Improved Stoves Project, embodying it in the Ecology/Forests/Environment Unit. The fundamental objective of this project is to lay emphasis on the ways and means for economising fuelwood as part of the desertification control strategy.

The first phase of the project has just come to an end with two types of stoves being made available for diffusion in the Sahelian region:
  • The portable metal and ceramic type of stove
  • The light massive improved "3 stones" type of stove

The setting of these two types of stoves calls for a large scale dissemination, if we want that the use of improved stoves displays any favourable impact on our environment.

For purposes of assisting our sahelian officials in this diffusion effort, I have the pleasure to submit to you these recommendations which are the fruit of four years of efforts, research and consultations. As you may be aware, sahelians are conscious of the far-reaching effects of desertification. This is why your moral and material support will always serve as a stimulus in this keen battle that we have opened against desertification. This battle, we are ever determined to win!

[top] [end]Recommendations to the states

[top] [end]I - General recommendations

Necessity to:
  1. Give political support for national Improved Stoves Programmes.
  2. Strengthen the national Improved Stoves committees for a most efficient operation. Where they are absent, they must be set up, encouraged and given support.
  3. Induce CILSS national correspondents to make further efforts so as to improve their despatching system for a timely arrival of documents at destinations.
  4. Establish periodic consultations between the national improved Stoves committee and the basic structures in each state.
  5. Encourage the use of national languages as a promising tool for training and effective follow-up.
  6. Ensure that national authorities integrate improved stove construction and usage into every development project to help accelerate diffusion.
  7. Guide more individuals to write articles and theses on Improved Stoves.

[top] [end]II - Recommendations towards research

Necessity to:

1) Create research and technical support centres for Improved stoves in countries where they are lacking and support existing centres.

2) Give considerations to interactions between the following stages when designing the stove:
  • uses
  • construction
  • distribution

3) Apply the simplified test methodology developed during the Ouagadougou CILSS/UNFSSTD seminar, within a trial period in laboratory.

4) Examine thoroughly, research on local materials, and knowledges of potter/ceramic production with the aim of perfecting prototypes.

5) Standardize the diameter of pots for a better control of the parameters of the stove concept.

6) Carry out further research on the following points:
  • adaption of several sizes of pots to the same stove
  • massive stoves for special use (infrastructure, community schools)
  • Stability and smoke evacuation

7) Establish and strengthen collaboration between researchers and potters in a given country.

[top] [end]III - Recommendations for dissemination:

It was recommended to:

1) Use two types of technically acceptable stoves namely.

- the improved "three-stones" stove - the portable, metal and ceramic stove for charcoal and wood

2) Diffuse intensively Portable stoves and the self-constructible improved stove which is already performing creditably.

3) Disseminate as a matter of priorityin the rural areas, those self-constructed models made with available local materials.

4) Ensure the production of portable improved stoves by artisans and eventually additional industrial production especially in the urban areas.

5) Establish efficient national units responsible for offering training and supervising trainers and constructors so as to guarantee the success of improved stoves diffusion.

[top] [end]Recommendations to CILSS

[top] [end]I - Administrative recommendations

  1. To solicit as a matter or urgency the necessary funding for initiating or continuing national programmes.
  2. To analyse before every seminar the progress and financing position of national programmes and projects as well as medium and long-term commitments of different donors of the improved Stoves programmes.
  3. To improve and stimulate a system of efficient exchange of national or international informations and communications which could help promote the massive diffusion of improved stoves.
  4. To provide the state with the necessary information and training for a better understanding of the problems of administration, management, evaluation and project control.

[top] [end]II - Recommendations for research and training

1) To provide the less advanced countries with a more regular technical support in the field of improved stoves.

2) To standardize measurement materials with a view to introducing uniformity into experimental conditions.

3) To develop a system of statistical analysis for purposes of establishing a uniform format for results.

4) To give special attention to training in the techniques of:

- extension stimulation - construction - testing

5) To search for prototypes of stoves using fuel other than wood and charcoal.

6) To collaborate, at the regional level, with existing research organs.

[top] [end]Recommendations for the International Community

Considering the recommendations made at the seminar on research and dissemination strategies of improved stoves in the Sahelian region;
  • Considering the proven desire of the United Nations system to give backing endeavours to control desertification through improved stoves dissemination in the Sahelian region;
  • Considering the achievements of the meeting held from May 13 to 18, 1985 at the "Centre de N'Diaye" Saint Louis (Senegal).

The participants strongly appeal to the International community for support to the Sahelian region, so that the massive diffusion of improved stoves soon become a reality.

CILSS B P 7049
OUAGADOUGO
BURKINA FASO

[top] [end]Contents: Boiling Point 11: Successful Stove Programmes

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BP11: Production costs of Mai Sauki - BP11: Does it pay to make stoves? - BP11: National fuelwood programme of Sri Lanka - BP11: Stove Dissemination in Burkina Faso - BP11: Stove programme guidelines for CILSS - BP11: National stove programme in India - BP11: Chulha programme - Boon or disaster? - BP11: Marketing - The Four "P's" - BP11: A cartoon story - BP11: Energy and rural women's work - BP11: The Q.B Stove - Philippines - BP11: China





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