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EnterpriseWorks Ghana


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[top] [end]Contact details


ewghana@africaonline.com.gh
Telephone +233 21 765454
www.enterpriseworks.org

[top] [end]Main contact person


Alan Brewis
Country director
EnterpriseWorks Ghana
brewisa@...

[top] [end]Background, mission and goals


EnterpriseWorks Worldwide is a not-for-profit development organization that promotes sustainable, enterprise-oriented solutions to problems facing small-scale producers around the developing world. For over 20 years EnterpriseWorks has undertaken strategic interventions in more than 60 countries, targeting production, processing, and marketing to enable farmers to improve productivity, tap broader markets, capture higher value of finished products, and better manage natural resources.

[top] [end]Approach, organisational programmes and activities


EnterpriseWorks' mission is to harness the power of the private sector to increase employment, raise family incomes, and promote civil stability. EnterpriseWorks and its partners help farmers and entrepreneurs transform their livelihoods by adding value to commodities, safeguarding natural resources, and accessing profitable markets.

[top] [end]Examples of past successes and experience


EnterpriseWorks has been active in the domestic energy subsector since the mid-1980s, when it provided financial and technical assistance to the highly successful USAID-funded Kenya Ceramic-Lined Stove Project, which has been the model for other household energy initiatives throughout Africa.
  • Fuel-Efficient Charcoal Stoves: EnterpriseWorks has adapted a sophisticated ceramic-lined version of the traditional all-metal charcoal stove used throughout Africa. The improved stove is incredibly fuel-efficient, enabling households to reduce charcoal consumption by 40-50 percent, saving $50-100 annually in expenditures. Every 1,000 stoves sold also conserves approximately 101 ha of wood resources. EnterpriseWorks' highly commercial approach links ceramists, metalworkers, and retailers and develops the local stove market with aggressive and innovative advertising campaigns. In Senegal, EnterpriseWorks has stimulated the sale of over 75,000 stoves to about as many households, which are produced by more than 50 manufacturers and sold by over 200 women vendors. EnterpriseWorks has active stove programs in Senegal, Mali, Benin, and Ghana with current annual sales of 50,000 stoves.
  • Fuel-Efficient Woodstoves: EnterpriseWorks commercializes the ceramic-lined charcoal stove in urban and peri-urban markets but is also developing a fuel-efficient wood-burning stove for rural households. Substantial research has been conducted in Senegal and Mali and more rigorous feasibility tests are currently underway in Burkina Faso and Ghana.
EnterpriseWorks is co-ordinator of the Shell Foundation supported project Clean Energy for Household Cooking Ghana.

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