The Tembea Youth Centre project aims to construct efficient cookstoves for rural communities in Siaya County, Kenya to address the social and environmental impacts of traditional cooking methods that rely on biomass fuels. The project's core elements include building cookstoves, establishing community savings and loan groups, and conducting climate education. Over 6,000 stoves have been constructed so far through the community groups. Challenges include the vast project area and socioeconomic difficulties faced by communities, which the project addresses through flexible financial planning and partnerships with local stakeholders. Lessons learned indicate the importance of integrating microfinance and working with schools and community networks.

1. Tembea Youth Centre
for Sustainable
Development
ENERGY EFFICIENT COOKSTOVES FOR
SIAYA COMMUNITIES PROJECT.
Presentation at:
PHE WORKSHOP
SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT - NAIROBI
26th to 28th July 2012 1

2. Presentation Outline
 Background information
 Core elements of the project
 Project Status - where we are..
 Project set-up
 Milestones
 Nature conservation in the context of ICS offset project
 Challenges – in implementation and efforts to address
them
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3. Background information
 The project aims to construct energy efficient
cook stoves for rural communities in the Siaya,
County
 Rural villages such as Siaya, the supply of
modern energy carriers such as electricity and
fossil fuels is very limited and expensive.
 In Siaya county only 1.4% of the population use
electricity for lighting and only 0.1% for cooking
purpose. To meet their basic energy needs
households rely on locally available biomass
fuels such as firewood and also occasionally
charcoal: almost 90% of households use
firewood for cooking and 9% use charcoal for
preparing their meals.
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4.  Households in
Siaya county
traditionally
cook on open
fires consisting
of 3 stones, in
this way
burning large
amounts of fuel
wood in a very
inefficient way.
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 This has severe
impacts at the
social (e.g.
health) and
environmental
levels (e.g.
deforestation,
CO2-
emissions).

6.  This project aims to
mitigate these impacts
by introducing energy
efficient cook stoves to
Siaya communities in
Kenya. The efficient
cook stove is a
biomass rocket stove
designed for burning
wood and consisting of
two cooking units that
can be separately
fired. The stove is
fixed and installed in
households
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7. Project Core Elements
1. Construction of efficient cookstoves
2. Community Savings and Loaning (CSL)
3. Climate Education, Awareness and nature
conservation
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8. Construction in progress
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9. Community Savings and Loaning
(CSL)
 Community saving and loaning is a local
capital mobilization methodology that seeks
to address the unmet needs of the poor
households brought about by poverty as well
as the existing gap in the major financial
services providers like the banks and
insurance companies.
 Savings- led microfinance groups lead to
financial and social empowerment of
individuals, households and communities,
creating a platform for holistic community
development on which community-based
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10. CS&L Benefits
 It provides very poor households with
effective, low cost means of improving
livelihood security. The financial, social
and human capital that locals especially
women develop through regular saving-
led micro-finance group meetings is
transferred to an amazing array of
actions that result in behavior change.
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11.  It provides platform for community
members to embrace e-banking
innovations enhancing financial
deepening & stabilizing rural financial
markets.
 These groups use their socio-political
and economic positions and group clout
to lobby for change and realize a myriad
of developmental endeavors for their
communities.
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12.  It provides an opportunity for the poor to
acquire essential but costly household
assets such as the energy efficient
cook stoves out of their long term
savings under the ASSET BASED
FUND component that the community
members are trained and closely
monitored to operationalize among the
self selected group members.
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 It enhances social inclusion among the
community members by regularly meeting
every week to apart from saving and loaning
also brainstorms on the possible ways of
uplifting group members to spring
economically and possible ways of
cushioning members who might be faced
with emergencies such as deaths, hospital
bills other emergencies that are specified
and approved in their self prepared
constitution. This is done under the CSL
micro-insurance scheme that all the
members subscribe to through weekly
contribution of a uniform amount of money
and collected as the SOCIAL FUND.

14. CS&L transactional meetings
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15. CS&L transaction meeting
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17. CS&L Training Modules
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CSL consist of 6 comprehensive modules:
 Module 1: Individual Self Screening
 Module 2: Group Formation and
Governance
 Module 3: Policies and Regulations
 Module 4: Development of CSL
Constitution
 Module 5: Written Record Keeping and
management of Meeting
 Module 6: Meeting Procedures, Share
out and graduation

18. Climate Education, Awareness
and nature conservation
 Awareness creation is conducted
through locational’s Chief Barazas,
churches, schools
 CS&L groups plays critical role in
community mobilization and
sensitization of households in taking
up the efficient cookstoves…..
 Promotion of alternative livelihood
ventures
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20. Project status and milestones
Applicant GS879 – Registration pathway…
1. Local stakeholders consultative meeting done
2. Kitchen survey and Kitchen Test and analysis complete –
May 2011
3. PDD and GS Passport writing – Sept 2011
4. Validation/visits and completion of technical review -
FVReport
5. Stakeholder feedback round
6. Registration – running parallel to monitoring and usage
survey July 2012
7. 1st Verification Period
8. 1st Issuance – June 2013
9. 6274 cookstoves constructed in corresponding
households
10. 233 community savings and loaning groups established
and operating
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21. Estimated amount of emission
reductions
Years(starting 01 January and
ending 31 December)
Annual estimation of emission
reductions in tonnes of CO2e
2011 4,203
2012 17,327
2013 31,188
2014 45,049
2015 58,910
2016 72,771
2017 86,633
Total emission reductions (tonnes of
CO2e)
316,080
Total number of crediting years 7
Annual average over the crediting
period of estimated reductions (tonnes
of CO2e)
45,154
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22. Project status and milestones
 CS&L reached have helped mobilize
over 5,928 households
 CS&L net saving value of saving over
KES 2,854,950.80 as of 31st May
2012.
 Over 70% of the households
accessing efficient cookstoves through
CS&L
 50 Artisans (31 men, 19 women)
trained, certified, and operating
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23. ICS and nature conservation
 From the FT (Kitchen test) we know that a
Tembea stove uses 1.32t of fuel wood per year.
With an energy content of fuel wood being
15GJ/t and its being a rocket type stove with
thermal efficiency being at most 33%, then
potential useful energy in a year is 6.53 GJ
(1.32t x 15GJ x 0.33). This energy is delivered in
at least 1hour 30min (30 minutes breakfast, 30
minutes lunch time and 30 minutes supper time)
a day, which translates to at least 1.971 million
seconds in a year. Hence the power rating of the
Tembea stove is about 3.3 kW (6.53GJ/1.971 M
sec). This is far away less than 150KW thermal
power output threshold for technologies under
this methodology.
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24. Project Project Land Cover and land
Area
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26. Land cover and land area – Siaya County
Land cover types Hectares
Rainfed herbaceous crop 110704.5
(Scattered) Rainfed herbaceous crop (field density 20-
40% of polygon area) 84342.3
(Isolated ) Rainfed herbaceous crop (field density 10-
20% polygon area) 4032.196
(Scattered) Rainfed tree crop (field density 20-40% of
polygon area) 30658.02
Rice fields 2857.402
Closed trees 94.348
Very open trees (40-15% crown cover) 381.317
Closed shrubs 367.726
Open (general) shrubs (65-15% crown cover) 710.028
Open to closed herbaceous vegetation on temporarily
flooded 1459.063
Closed herbaceous vegetation on permanently
flooded land 11936.69
Urban and associated areas, rural settlements 304.928
Natural water bodies 2054.176
Total Area 249,903
Area without water bodies and urban centre 247,544
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27. Baseline and Project non-renewable
biomass (NRB) assessment
 The renewability status of fuel wood has
been analysed within Siaya County, which
is considered as the plausible collection
area for fuel wood in the project. The
analysis shows that there is more fuel
wood that is used from the available stock
within Siaya County than can re-grow.
This fraction of non-renewable biomass is
calculated as 75.99%. The figure is
supported by qualitative figures, which
show a high biomass deficit of 72.07% for
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28. Challenges and efforts to address
them
 Need for Structured training: To
ensure consistence and quality, the
training offered must continue to be
monitored and be consistent both in
content and approach, providing
room for continuous stove
improvement.
◦ This requires strategic partnership with
institution of higher learning and
proportionate investment.
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29. challanges
 Awareness and educational
materials: Relative increase in
demand for the efficient cookstoves
have been observed in the recent
past, posing pressure on project
scope. Hence, the need for sufficient
investment in awareness and
education both for users and potential
clients – leading to subsequent
customer satisfaction..
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30. Challenges
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 Vastness of the Project area – As the project
moves into full scale, there shall be need for
structured and efficient monitoring scheme
adopted. Requiring additional
motorcycles/vehicle, and field based offices.
 Socio-economic capacities of target
community; the communities targeted by this
project, are faced with high poverty levels and
high unemployment. A new dimension that is
affecting project success is the increase in fossil
fuel prices that ends up having an impact in local
commodity prices and more so food stuff. This
translates to a decline in spending on non food
items, consequently leading to late/delayed
repayment at CSL groups.

31. Key Lessons learnt..
 Inherent socio-economic challenges facing
communities is not be a hindrance to
creating for demand clean household
energy, thus, integration of a flexible
savings led microfinance forms an integral
part with far reaching benefits
environmentally, socially, and economically.
 Flexible project –financial planning and
creativity yields results especially when
dealing with communities that have pre-
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32. Lessons Learnt…
 Working with a host of local
stakeholders, government agencies and
community networks has far reaching
impacts and inherent benefits to the
project beneficiaries, whereas
overcoming systemic obstacles that pose
threat to continuation/scaling up- of
project such as this.
 Opportunities for research and
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33. Lessons Learnt…
 Working with schools can yield better
results in adaptation of the project
ideals, especially with regard to linking
activities with climate change and
CO2 emissions. More environmental
clubs should be established in the
schools with catchments in the project
areas.
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34. THANK YOU
Buoga Jared Omondi, E.Director,
TEMBEA
P.O. Box 313 – 40606 Ugunja, Kenya
Tel: +254722588675
Email: tembea@tembea.org
Webpage: www.tembea.org
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