Togo Cookstoves
Where: TOGO
Years: 2023 – 2032
Standard:
Project Type: COOKSTOVES
Protection of local forest: 250,000ha
SDGs:
Where: TOGO
Years: 2023 – 2032
Standard:
Project Type: COOKSTOVES
Protection of local forest: 250,000ha
SDGs:
Overview
The project is producing and distributing 200,000 improved cookstoves over 5 years.
Two types of locally made stoves will be distributed. The use of locally made stoves offer vast socioeconomic advantages over projects which import stoves.
The project will also support the local production of the stoves by identifying and providing technical and marketing training to 100 local potters and 30 local welders, as well as implement education and awareness activities on environmental and other benefits of improved cookstoves.
Evidence shows that these improved stoves can reduce fuel consumption by around 30% compared to traditional stoves. The project targets households and artisans in the Plateaux, Maritime, and Centrale regions of Togo, which comprises about two-thirds to Togo’s total population.
High Impact Projects
Climate
The project will protect 250,000 ha of local forest
Biodiversity
Part of the profits are directed to a series of activities related to the conservation of Fazao-Malfakassa National Park
Community
Increase life expectancy of users by 2 year
Boosting local income of 200,000 families by $1,500 each over the period
Climate & Innovation
– 40% wood consumption
1 cookstove saves 3 football pitches of forest per year
Each of our cookstoves protects an area of forest the size of 4 tennis courts per year
All the cookstoves will be registered and geotagged in a central database to streamline the certification process.
Heat sensors will be installed on a random sample of cookstoves to make the monitoring process more effective.
Biodiversity
The project contributes to biodiversity in Fazao-Malfakassa National Park that is home to the largest area of undisturbed vegetation in Togo.
The terrain is rugged and includes the Monts de Malfakassa to the north and the Monts du Fazao in the center with a steep cliff, the Falaise de Boulowou, along its western edge. It is the only national park with such characteristics in West Africa.
The park is home to the endangered West African Eelephant (their number is estimated in Fazao-Malfakassa between 110 and 200), many species of antelope, as well carnivore as leopard, spotted hyena, serval, caracal, and occasionally lion and 244 species of birds.
Community
16,7 million
girls out of school in Sub-Saharan Africa doing domestic chores. Efficient cookstoves allow more time to study and require less time to collect wood
These improved stoves and kilns, especially those using wood, are stationary stoves built mainly from local materials.
They are manufactured locally.
To be accepted and easily integrated into the communities, they are built taking into account local culinary habits.
3 billion
people still cook with dangerous cookstoves
4 million
people die every year due to exposure to indoor air pollution
High Integrity Carbon Avoidance
The project is verified by Gold Standard, one of the most respected standards in the world and the leader in cookstove projects, furthermore the project will be audited by a validation and verification body.
The project was solely created for the generation of carbon credits, there is also no evidence NGOs were going to support a cookstove project in the region and profits are not generated by the sale of cookstoves.
Permanence measured in years is not applicable to cookstove projects as they avoid emissions for each year of crediting.
Leakage is less relevant in cookstove projects because it’s a project type which targets drivers of deforestation, not the active protection of a defined plot of land.
Our cookstove IoT heat sensors make monitoring extremely precise eliminating the risk of over crediting.
The stoves are locally made respecting the traditional cooking styles .
