The Darfur Low-Smoke Stoves Project aims to combat the dependency on solid fuels by introducing clean LPG stoves, addressing issues such as deforestation and indoor air pollution while promoting women’s involvement in household cooking. The initiative, funded through carbon credits and supported by local NGOs and community management, has distributed 7,500 stoves, avoiding over 75,000 tons of CO2 emissions and improving energy accessibility. Continuous monitoring and financial strategies are implemented to ensure sustainability and enhance the impacts of the program.

1. Darfur Low-Smoke Stoves project
Carbon Finance: Impacts Monitoring and Optimization

2. LPG stoves in North Darfur, Sudan
The Facts
 95% of Sudan’s population uses solid fuels: firewood, charcoal, etc.
 For 10 trees cut down only 1 is regrown
 Scarcity of biomass: travel 180 km + price increased by 500% since 2008
 Gas stoves + cylinder: equivalent to 2/3 monthly salary
 No consumer finance
 Partnership: private organisation, international and local NGOs
 Run by the community
 Micro-finance and local women-led management
 Eliminates the financial barrier to clean LPG stoves
 Funded by the sale of carbon credits
The Project

3. Project Structure

4. Carbon Finance Project Funding
Result-based financing
Carbon
Clear
Practical
Action
Low-Smoke Stoves project
££
££
Gold Standard
Carbon Credits
Client 1
Client 2
Client 3
…
£
£
£
£
££
£
Impacts Monitoring Report
Shabaka
Micro
fund

5. Reasons for Offsetting Carbon Emissions
September 2014:
Study by Imperial College London
University’s Centre for
Environmental Policy (CEP)
Research investigated 72 of the
larger companies participating in
voluntary carbon offsetting
programmes

6. Less Reporting, More Monitoring
 Maintenance of Beneficiary/Sale Database
 Quarterly Kitchen Surveys
 Monthly Micro-Finance Records
 Yearly Usage Survey
 Biennial Water Boiling Tests
 Biennial Leakage Assessment
 Kitchen Performance Tests

7. Measuring Impacts: a Few Findings
 7,500 stoves distributed
 Carbon Emissions: 75,000+ tCO2 avoided
 Indoor Air Pollution: 99% acknowledge significant
indoor air improvement
 Empowering Women: 41% of husbands get involved
with cooking activities
 Energy Poverty: from 627 MJ to 833 MJ /capita / year
 Reduce Deforestation: saving 3,000 tons wood/year

8. Maximising efficiency and impacts through monitoring
 Gas stoves users still using wood and charcoal =>
lack of cash to refill and issues for cooking traditional
dishes
 With a gas stove, households save on average 7-8
USD / month
 Stoves slowly stop functioning after 6 years of use
 Saving staff monitoring time to maximise service
time
 Stove and fuel cost increase and financial
sustainability

9. Darfur Low-Smoke Stoves Project
Features:
. Result-based financing
. Financial sustainability
. Impacts maximisation
. Replicability
. Innovative partnership
Partners:
. Practical Action
. Carbon Clear
. Women Development Associations