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Clean Energy for Household Cooking, Ghana


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[top] [end]Short project summary


EnterpriseWorks, Ghana, in collaboration with its artners in the Renewable Energy Unit of the Ministry of Energy and the Ghana Environmental Protection Agency will carry out the following activities in order to reduce IAP in Ghanaian households:
  • set up a profitable (and therefore sustainable) supply chain for a range of cleaner burning cooking stoves,
  • improve access to reliable supplies of kerosene in rural areas, and,
  • embark on an education campaign, along with the marketing of new stoves, in order to bring about behavioural changes to reduce exposure to, and generation of, smoke.

[top] [end]Project statistics


[top] [end]Project location


Ghana

[top] [end]Project partners


  • The Ghana Ministry of Energy
  • The Ghana Environmental Protection Agency
  • Manufacturers and retailers of stoves

[top] [end]Project goals (summary)


Smoke and particulate levels reduced in 40,000 urban and 5,000 rural households.

[top] [end]Duration and start date


3 years from December 2003

[top] [end]Contact details


Alan Brewis brewisa@...
Country director
EnterpriseWorks Ghana
Telephone +233 21 765454
www.enterpriseworks.org

[top] [end]Project background


The most significant source of IAP in Ghana is cooking smoke from the burning of low cost biomass fuels in inefficient stoves or open fires. There is now strong evidence to support a link between indoor air pollution and health, particularly respiratory diseases, increasing evidence suggests links with cataracts, TB, asthma, and possibly low birth weight and heart disease. Indoor Air Pollution is strongly linked to poverty as it is the poor who rely on lower-grade fuels and have least access to clean technologies for cooking and lighting. Women and children are most exposed to indoor smoke since women simultaneously cook and care for young children.

[top] [end]Project approach and activities


In the initial stages of the project a baseline survey will be conducted to compare the performance of a range of new options with existing cooking methods. Standardised measuring protocols developed by the Household Energy and Health unit of University of Berkeley, California will be used.

Local ceramicists and metalworkers will then be trained to manufacture those devices that are the most effective at reducing IAP and that best satisfy the needs and desires of potential customers. The stoves will be marketed aggressively using radio and TV as well as social marketing techniques. In addition to promoting clean-burning stoves this project will work with the Ministry of Energy on its initiative to increase the availability of kerosene in rural areas by assisting with business planning and training to commercialise the retail points. An entertaining, high impact education campaign will be incorporated into the various marketing activities showing the dangers of IAP and some low and no-cost methods of reducing health risks such as the importance of ventilation and correct use of improved stoves. Credit will be made available to retailers and manufacturers.

[top] [end]Deliverables and benefits


  • 45,000 appropriate stoves sold in 3 years, profitably, by 100 local retailers.
  • 100,000 householders aware of dangers of IAP and changing their behavior to reduce risks.
  • >90% of households who have new stoves regularly using them as one of their main cooking devices.
  • Kerosene tanks supplied to target communities and regular kerosene supplies sustained by the Ministry of Energy. 10 pilot trials resulting in profitable energy shops established.

[top] [end]Information leaflets


The following information leaflets are available to download:

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