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Senegal Stove Success Story

Boiling Point
Front cover of Boiling Point issue 35
Issue 35 (1995) How Much Can NGO’s Achieve
ArticleSenegal Stove Success Story
AuthorAppropriate Technology International?
ATI's sustainable enterprise work with market gardeners, metalworkers, and ceramicists in Senegal is broadening its reach with new three-year funding from USAID/Senegal's Private Voluntary Organization (PVO) Co-Financing Project. The Co-financing Project promotes partnerships between US PVOs and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

ATI's activities in Senegal since 1990 have focused on developing and demonstrating methodologies for rethinking the production process for basic economic activities in which many small-scale producers are involved. It is promoting the private-sector manufacture and distribution of productivity - increasing technological innovations - especially the treadle pump and a fuel - efficient, ceramic-lined stove for household use.

The return on investment for small scale producers is clear from these results:
  • Local industries, built around highly productive and environmentally beneficial technologies, are generating new enterprises, jobs, and income. Metalworkers have assembled and sold nearly 800 treadle pumps, with ceramicists they have made and marketed over 12000 improved charcoal stoves (sale price US$9 per stove). As planned, sales continue to accelerate even while involvement of programme staff is reduced.
  • By burning less charcoal, the 12,000 Diambar stove-using households are each saving US$103 annually on energy costs. Total reduction in charcoal consumption is over 6800 tonnes per year with a consequent saving of Senegal forests.
These new funds will support an important, new, scale-up phase involving an array of Senegalese NGOs and the active participation of a project partner - Association Conseil pour l'Action (ACA) in providing business training to producers and purchasers of the technologies.

ATI, local NGOs and small entrepreneurs will extend target markets for the Diambar stove to secondary towns outside Dakar. ATI will also collaborate with national NGOs to scale up impact and continue to build local capacity in the market gardening subsector in Senegal while working to expand similar programs in Niger, Mali and Nigeria.

'The impacts we have seen in Senegal are considerable - substantial increases in productivity and family incomes, improved crop yields, lower income energy costs, reduced deforestation in the Senegalese countryside' said ATI President Andrew Maguire. 'Now the challenge is to extend this new way of thinking and mobilizing assets to many thousands more small producers in Senegal and West Africa.'

[top] [end]Contents: Boiling Point 35: How Much Can NGO’s Achieve

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Scaling Up NGO Impacts - From Chulo Group to NGO in Nepal - Women and Energy Project - Kenya - Senegal Stove Success Story - The Senegal Diambar Stove Project - NGO Poverty Projects Evaluated - NGOs - Whats Behind the Initials - The Zambia Charcoal Industry - Trees For Fuel - The Foresters View - Fuelwood - A South African View - Energy and the Household Environment in Accra - Hoods and Chimneys to Reduce Indoor Air Pollution from Wood and Coal Fires - Testing of Charcoal and Coal Briquette Stoves

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