Sub-Saharan Africa – Cookstoves Project

Providing households in Angola, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe with a unique double stove system so families can cook food simultaneously, mitigating the need to use an open fire in parallel. This ensures that the health benefits and time savings of eliminating open fire can be fully realized.

Outcomes 

• CQC’s stove enables fuel-switching to fully sustainable crop residues and small branches of trees and shrubs that regrow readily, making cooking energy sustainable and using it cleanly and efficiently.
• CQC has internalised production of parts in Africa away from India and China where most of the world’s improved stoves are made then exported to Africa. This supply chain change has created local employment, mostly for women as trainers in stove construction and use, registration of stoves and as stove champions with up to a thousand clients they visit at least once a year paid by the stove programs.
• CQC’s rocket stove increases thermal efficiency to 30%, cutting CO2 emissions in half or more, and greatly reducing non-CO2 gas and Black Carbon emissions.
• CQC integrates its cookstove interventions in sustainable agriculture through its partnerships with conservation farming NGOs and organic farming enterprises at the small-holder level, internalizing fuel supply in cropping systems and on farm and village border plantings to create a virtuous circle of sustainable land management.