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Author : Staff at Govardhan Eco Village
Website : www.ecovillage.org.in
Date Produced : April, 2013
Editor : Srimati Vrindavan Lila d.d.
Serial no : 50 of 54
A Self Sustainable Community (Human Settlement) comprising all the activity to a range of Human Scale within the neighborhood interdependent to government or policies.
This case study illustrates the implementation of two solar-powered ovens in a local bakery in Gitega, Burundi. The Solar Bakery project aims to create sustainable employment opportunities, empower female entrepreneurs and reduce their vulnerability to poverty, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation, and stimulate international investment.
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Presented by Monica Tanuhandaru, from Kemitraan - Partnership for Governance Reform, during CIFOR's session 'Collective Actions for Peatlands Restoration in Indonesia' at UNFCCC's COP23 in Bonn, Germany, on November 9, 2017.
Community-based peatland restoration in Gohong Village, Central KalimantanCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Pak Yanto, Head of Gohong village, Pulang Pisau district, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, during CIFOR's session 'Collective Actions for Peatlands Restoration in Indonesia' at UNFCCC's COP23 in Bonn, Germany, on November 9, 2017.
GOVARDHAN ECO VILLAGE - New Dimensions in OutreachSriSurabhi
Author : Staff at Govardhan Eco Village
Website : www.ecovillage.org.in
Date Produced : April, 2013
Editor : Srimati Vrindavan Lila d.d.
Serial no : 50 of 54
A Self Sustainable Community (Human Settlement) comprising all the activity to a range of Human Scale within the neighborhood interdependent to government or policies.
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1. The Gitega Solar Bakery Project
A case study by R20 Regions of Climate Action
Authors: Denise Welch, Jini Sebakunzi, Carla O’Donnell, Gabrielle Rudolph
5. 5
INTRODUCTION
Burundi’s Gitega city
The city of Gitega, located in Gitega Province, is the second largest city in Bu-
rundi. Gitega has a tropical highland climate, with an elevation of 1,500 meters
and average temperature of 19 degrees Celcius. The province experiences an
average rainfall of 720mm per year4
. Agriculture and livestock farming are inte-
gral to Gitega’s economy. Intensive agricultural activities, however, increase the
province’s vulnerability to climate change due to the fact that oftentimes, forests
are cleared and the land is converted to farmland. Additionally, the agricultur-
al sector in Burundi is responsible for 91.4% of the country’s greenhouse gas
emissions5
.
The Burundian civil war, which lasted from 1993 until 2005, was detrimental to
the political, economic, and developmental stability of the country. Gitega was
especially affected, and the province is still in the process of recovering from the
war. For example, many vulnerable groups such as children, victims of sexual
violence, widows, the impoverished, and single mothers, are currently present
in Gitega as a result of the war. Additionally, the unemployment rate is now
relatively high, at 9%.6
In addition to socioeconomic issues, the civil war was
also accompanied by water infrastructure damage, as well as increased rates
of deforestation7
.
Burundi’s response to climate change
Since Burundi entered the Kyoto Protocol in 20018
, the country has devel-
oped the First (2007) and Second (2010) National Communication on Climate
Change, a National Action Plan of Adaption of Climate Change, and a National
Policy Strategy on Climate Change. These reports highlight the following:
• Burundi is becoming increasingly vulnerable to droughts, flooding, and land-
slides;
• Poor socioeconomic conditions hinder Burundi’s ability to combat climate
change;
• Wood is the most consumed energy resource;
• Renewable energy (solar, wind, biogas) innovations are underdeveloped;
• Hydroelectric power is a promising source of energy; and
• Solar technology implementation would be beneficial and effective.7
Entering Gitega
6. 6
IMPLEMENTATION
Background
The Solar Bakery project is an initiative conceived by R20 and CIRID (Centre
Indépendant de Recherche et d’Initiative pour le Dialogue) to supply two so-
lar-powered ovens to a small bakery that employs 13 women who have been
marginalized by their communities. R20 was awarded funding for this project
through a grant from the Energy and Environment Partnership of Southern and
East Africa (EEP S&EA). The bakery is located in the outskirts of Burundi’s sec-
ond largest city, Gitega.
Prior to the arrival of the solar ovens, the bakery relied heavily on fuel-wood to
produce baked goods, exposing the bakers to large amounts of smoke, as well
as incurring high costs as the price of wood kept rising. Such increases in costs
eventually forced the bakery to temporarily shut down and relocate to a busier
area.
Fire wood stock outside the old bakery
Indoor wood-fired oven at the old bakery
7. 7
IMPLEMENTATION
Project deployment
Once the solar ovens were deployed to the new bakery, a two-week training
course was conducted for the bakers on using the ovens, business manage-
ment (accounting, planning, strategy, etc) and marketing.
The bakers then elected one baker to manage the bakery and keep track of
sales and expenses. The CIRID team has been collecting that data and moni-
toring progress.
The project partners, R20 and CIRID, involved the bakers in the project from the
very start by organizing stakeholder consultation meetings to identify their needs
and walk them through the plans for the bakery. Ongoing meetings with these
beneficiaries allowed the partners to address their concerns as they emerged.
Inauguration of the solar ovens
8. 8
THE TECHNOLOGY
Installation of the Villager Sun Oven at new bakery site
The technology being used is called the “Villager Sun Oven”, manufactured by a
US-based company, Sun Oven International.
The Villager Sun Oven is designed and built for durability and ease of use. It
is highly adaptable to changing weather, as it can be rotated to face the sun,
and comes with a propane back-up system to be used when it rains. In other
words, the oven can be used in all weather conditions. The oven is mounted on
a trailer making it easy to transport, and its collapsible reflectors make it secure
for storage.
Villager Sun Oven folded and covered up during rain fall
9. 9
RESULTS
• Each oven is capable of baking up to 500 bread loaves each day and allows
the users to save over 150 tons of firewood each year, which results in the
reduction of around 277 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually9
.
• In Gitega, the most popular bread produced by the oven is 30% cheaper
than regular bread sold elsewhere.
• The findings of a qualitative survey reveal that the bakers are generally
much happier to be working in the bakery now that they are no longer ex-
posed to harmful indoor smoke from using a wood-fired oven.
• The bakers also appreciate not having to walk long distances to collect fire
wood.
• The bakers earn 30% more than they did when they worked as farm labor-
ers during the temporary closure of the bakery.
The first batch of freshly baked bread using the solar oven
10. 10
LESSONS LEARNED
Distribution
The women in charge of sales have to walk 1.5 hours to sell the bread in other
villages. The bakery closes in the early afternoon when the women go to sell.
This time could be used to produce more bread, but would still require the re-
maining bakers to walk to other villages to sell later on, which is not so safe to
do in the evenings.
Solution
Implementing partners should explore partnership opportunities to provide bi-
cycles to the bakers. This would reduce and ease their commute, as well as
maximize production and sales.
Promotion & marketing
The baked goods are 30% cheaper, but the bakers have not yet begun to fully
promote the bakery.
Solution
The partners and bakers should draft a marketing plan and promotional mate-
rials.
Target customers
Selling to individual consumers in other villages has been both time consuming
and not sufficiently profitable.
Solution
The partners and bakers should revise the business plan and strategy to redi-
rect the business towards bulk sales to restaurants, hotels, grocers and super
markets.
Note: Political climate
The bakery has been operational since March 2015. As of May 2015 the political
environment in Burundi has deteriorated and become unstable. As a result, the
business has been put on hold until tensions dissipate.
11. 11
CONCLUSION
The scope of this project has effectively extended beyond simply delivering so-
lar ovens and reducing local environmental damage (deforestation), to actually
improving the health, livelihoods, and contributing to the professional develop-
ment, of the women employed at the bakery.
Through the business and marketing trainings provided by the project partners
so far, the employees have begun to strengthen their existing skills and devel-
op new ones. This will undoubtedly be beneficial to them in the running of this
bakery, and in any other form of employment they may undertake in the future.
In addition, by encouraging and supporting the bakers in taking ownership of
the bakery’s operation, the partners have laid the foundations for a sustainable
business that will outlive the duration of the project.
12. 12
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13. R20 Regions of Climate Action
48 Chemin du Grand Montfleury CH-1290 Geneva Switzerland
secretariat@regions20.org
www.regions20.org