Global Bioenergy Partnership IndicatorsKenya

Rocio Diaz-Chavez

November 2018Dr Rocio A Diaz Chavez

Stockholm Environment Institute

Africa Centre

Deputy Director for Research

Energy and climate change

programme leader

rocio.diaz-chavez@sei.org

Partners

• Stockholm Environment Institute Africa Centre

• Coordinator: Dr Rocio Diaz-Chavez

• Kenya Forest Research Institute (KEFRI)

• World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

• University of Strathmore

• Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Energy

Project activities

• Workshop May 17, 2018 with stakeholders

• Four pathways concluded and two selected for the current

project

• Partners involved in meetings

• Pathways selected and description started

• Division of indicators according to expertise

Background

• In sub-Saharan Africa, 72 per cent of urban and 98 per cent of

rural households use fuelwood for energy.

• In Kenya use of charcoal in urban areas has risen by 64 per

cent in two decades.

• charcoal industry provides employment to 500,000 people and

generates over US$427 million but kept out of the formal

economies of this country (Njenga, 2018)

(Transrisk, 2018)

Projected annual biomass energy consumption/supply (in thousands) in Kenya

KIPPRA (2010)

Pathways

• Sources: horticulture, food crops, industrial crops, livestock and fisheries.

• Food crops: maize (3500 kt/y), wheat (400 kt/y), rice (120 kt/y), Sorghum (170 kt/y), beans (620 kt/y), roots and tubers like potatoes (1630 kt/y), sweet potatoes (760 kt/y) and cassava (870 kt/y).

Industrial usesStrathmore University

Industrial crops: tea (400 kt/y), coffee (42 kt/y) and sugar cane (6000 kt/). Residues: husks, cobs, the shells, bagasse or straw for energy, fodder, compositing, mulching among other uses.

Kenya charcoal

Challenges for GBEP indicators

1. Need to adapt the proposed methodology to the selected

pathways mainly solid biomass

2. Data in different organisations (e.g. GIZ, SNV, AECF, Clean

Cooking Alliance, others)

3. Quantitative data may be missing, only from past and ongoing

research

Overcoming challenges

• Data sharing

• Database for first time

• Narrative and proxy

Thank you!

Dr Rocio A Diaz Chavez

Stockholm Environment Institute

Africa Centre

Deputy Director for Research

Energy and climate change

programme leader

rocio.diaz-chavez@sei.org