Presentation WAME workshop July 8 2015

1. What We’ve Learned
about Implementing
Successful Stove Programs
and Why It Matters

2. Joyous photos are a good thing, but the
background to the photo is fundamental

3. In our case, our background began in
Haiti in 1999
Artist, J.R.PH. Auguste
Photo credit: Haiti Visuelle

4. Local production allows for tuning to
market demands

5. Our first big success…
was not OUR success

6. Local resources

7. Local fuel production

8. Taking ownership

9. While it is key to
marketing to show
one’s own stoves in a
good light, it is
important to also
respect the local
stoves
Local people
have very likey
figured out
things we/you
have overlooked

10. Knowledge transfer is a two-way street

11. We are all in this together

12. Additional, tangible benefits are
important as they are easier to explain

13. Summary
• Adapt stoves to local cooking traditions
• Locally owned and operated hubs
• Profits must remain in local community
• Local technology transfer
• Local fuel production
• Respectful representation of local people
• Shift from global assistance to local comminities to local comunities
helping the world
• Only develop products that you would use
• Every step of program (not just technology) must be designed to be
industrializable and be brought to scale.
• Locally run, and co-developed, evaluation programs every 3-6
months