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Project proposal: Cleaner Cook Stoves Reduce Climate emission

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Network for climate action Organization

(N.C.A.O)

Project proposal

Project title: Clean Cook Stove Reduce Climate Emission project

Implementing organization: Network for Climate Action Organization

Project target population: Women, children and Environment

Project Expected Duration: 3 years’ project

Executing country: The Gambia

Beneficiary Region: West coast region

Estimate total cost of the Project: $75.000

Contact person: Mr. Abdoulie Sanyang

Title: Project Director

OFFICE ADDRESS: Sukuta ,Serrekunda.

The Gambia. Tel +2203260547/+2206192389

Email: [email protected]

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Legal status and: Network for Climate Action organization (N.C.A.O)

Incorporated under companies AcT 2013

Registration: Register under pursuant of section 22(5) Republic of the Gambia

Company`s number 2018/C6095.

PAN (Permanent Account Number) GTbank Gambia N.C.A 461028110

Accreditations:

Network for climate Action has received accreditation from the following reputed donation

platforms:

1. Global Giving 2. Charities Aid Foundation 3. Good Lunch

Management

Our Board of Trustees and Advisory Committee include eminent people who, as independent

appointees, actively participate in the activities with the local community.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Alhagie Sanyang, Founder Trustee and Chairperson, Managing

Trustee Lamin Sanyang, Correspondent Mr. Ebou Colley, Correspondent- Mr Lamin Danso,

Senior Advocate : Mrs. Fatou-mata Touray Sanyang

ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Mr. Lamin Sanneh ministry of interior. Mr. Lamin Njie , ministry

of justice Mrs. Sharata Bojang National Assembly Gambia.

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE: The committee meets monthly to review policies and take

major decisions affecting the project’s operations. Mr. Abdoulie Sanyang: project Director –

project coordinator: MR Modou Colley

PROJECT MANAGER: The core Executive Team of the Management Committee consists of the

persons named above. Mr. Abdoulie Sanyang, the Project Director. He is a full-time volunteer

overseeing the whole project. All members of the Management Committee and the core

project team are full-time volunteers.



WHO WE ARE:

Network for climate action Organization is founded by group of experts, academia,

professionals and local stakeholders on Environment, climate change and disaster resilience.

NCAO is supporting and complementing The Gambia Government effort to address climate

change is at the core of recent strategy 2018-2022. Tackling climate change, building climate

and disaster resilience and enhancing environmental sustainability are the key operational

priority of strategy 2022. Our Climate change mitigation has also been an important focal area

where Network for climate action also worked in empowering communities to embark on

climate mitigation measures including restoration of mangrove and wetland ecosystems. The

work on these unique ecosystems was an important part of biodiversity and climate change

measures contributing Gambia Government to contribute its long term goals to limit the global

temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius while pursuing a 1.5 degrees’ target

through the country`s NDC. The organization program focuses on rural communities and

District in the Gambia adapting and build their resilient on negative impact posed by climate

change these local communities are the most vulnerable and feel left behind on government

programs.

MISSION:

Network for climate action organization we are working towards building climate resilient low

carbon sustainable development in the Gambia.

SUPPORT REQUIRED FROM DONORS;

We seek financial support to Manufacture and distribute cleaner and modern cooking stoves in

rural households in the Gambia. GHG emission from the Gambia are significant and likely to

increase under business-as-usual scenario due to fast economic growth. Historic Paris

agreement in 2015 introduce a new global framework of tackling climate change acknowledging

the need to accelerate and intensify actions. The organization is implementing clean cooking

interventions that improve women and children`s health and wellbeing through socioeconomic,

public health and Climate mitigation co-benefits. More than 2 million families in rural Gambia

use inefficient traditional cook stoves, such as three-stone fires, which incompletely combust

solid fuels which use firewood and charcoal, traditional cook stoves were often inefficient and

without a proper smoke ventilation system. Burning of firewood in traditional cook stoves

produce high levels of black carbon that result in poor indoor air quality and cause respiratory

problems, especially among women and children. These families are unaware that the smoke

produced by the traditional stoves causes serious health and environmental risks factor. These

rural communities’ faces access deficit and primarily dependence on tradition four leg stove fire



with solid biomass causing Household Air pollution and wide spread deforestation. Collection of

fuel wood considerable a burden which is predominantly carried out by women and girls

normally walk up to 5km and spend many hours gathering fuel wood giving them less time to

read or relax. With access to Cleaner Cook Stoves from the project, the communities no longer

relies on firewood. Women and girls can now use clean cooking stoves to prepare their family’s

meals without compromising their family’s health. Other local residents, especially women are

now free from their daily duties of collecting firewood and are able to use the time saved for

more productive activities such as farming or childcare. The reduced dependence on firewood

has also helped slow down deforestation in the area.

Traditional stoves cause Household Air pollution a leading killer in poor rural Gambia up 1/3 of

death from premature mortality deaths, lungs cancer, respiration disease, stroke, heart disease

every year due to air pollution. Over 4 million people die annually worldwide from Household

Air Pollution (HAP) related to cooking with solid biomass fuels, more than HIV/AIDs,

tuberculosis, and malaria combined. (WHO report 2016). Affordable strategies like Clean and

modern stoves help to reduce health hazard and restrict climate change and also support

sustainable development goals for health and energy. Switching from open fires or rudimentary

stoves to cleaner stoves like ethanol and “gastifier “would reduce black carbon and PM2.5

emissions by a factor of 10 or greater, as well as reducing harmful climate CO2 emissions.

CURRENT FUNDING REQUIRED

The request for funds for period 2018-2020

Sr.NO Description Amount (Dalasi)

1 Manufacturing and Distribution of clean cook stove

7,150,300

2 Capacity building and Consumer Awareness and Sensitization Program

2,350,000

3 Policy and institutional advocacies 1,250,000

TOTAL 10,750,300



ORGANIZATION MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT:

Network For Climate Action has registered some significant achievements which positively affected the lives of a considerable number of people in rural communities across the country. Among the achievements include the creation of networks that links CSOs and development agencies and partners. This network continues to play an important role in sharing of information and experiences across disciplines, regions and sectors. Our program initiated many innovations and technologies geared towards addressing specific environmental problems especially in rural communities. On issues dealing with land degradation, the initiatives were successful in reversing land degradation trends in affected communities by enabling land users adopt simple soil and water conservation measures on their land and other means of generating natural soil fertilities through cultural and land husbandry practices to combat hunger, desertification, loss of agricultural produces, Food and water security our major objective was to compliment the government efforts in poverty reduction and food insecurity. Climate change mitigation has also been an important focal area we worked in empowering communities to embark on climate mitigation measures including restoration of mangrove and wetland ecosystems. The work on these unique ecosystems was an important part of biodiversity and climate change measures by local communities. Energy conservation and the promotion of efficient energy uses was another area where considerable work has been done. Prototypes of improved energy saving cooking stoves have been produced, distributed and popularized among households in the communities as a climate mitigation strategy.

COUNTRY BACKGROUND: The Gambia is one of the smallest countries in West Africa, surrounded by the Republic of

Senegal in all sides except the Atlantic Coast. The capital Banjul, the country stretches

approximately 400 km eastwards, and its width varies between 80km at the Atlantic and about

28km in the inland east. The country is divided horizontally by the River Gambia and the total

land area is 11,295 square km, 50 percent of which is arable land. According to UNDP report,

the nation has made great economic progress in recent decades, more than 2millions people

still live in dire poverty. The population is approximately 2.1 million Agriculture is the main

source of income which contribute 59% of GDP. low per capita income of approximately US

$310 in 2013 and 80% of the population are living less the $2.25 per day and Literacy rate are

higher and poverty ratio is 22.4% (per 2003census). More than 95% of the Gambia population

and more than one million people in Gambia lived in extreme poverty in 2012. They had either

severely limited or no access to better education, healthcare, water and sanitation, and energy

(Njai 2016).



CLEANER COOKING STOVES REDUCE CLIMATE EMISSION PROJECT

Executive Summary

Approximately 3 billion people globally rely on dirty solid fuels like firewood, charcoal to cook

and heat their homes. Most households use inefficient stoves, such as traditional three-stone

fires, which incompletely combust solid polluting fuels like wood or other biomass releasing

toxic substances, resulting in indoor(household) and outdoor air pollution that has widespread

health impacts and environmental degradation.(World Bank report 2015)

Exposure to Household Air Pollution is now identified as the most important environmental risk

factor for ill-health in developing countries; over 4 million people die every year from

household air pollution related to cooking with solid biomass fuels, more than HIV/AIDs,

tuberculosis, and malaria combine, resulting in approximately 4 million deaths and 110 million

disability-adjusted life years worldwide which are a measure of premature death and disability.

(WHO report 2011). The overall disease burden combines the burden of mortality and



morbidity. DALYs sum the years of life lost due to premature death in the population and the

years of life lost due to disability for people living with a disease or resulting condition. Further

studies show that clean cooking interventions can reduce the risk of diseases related to

household air pollution by creating access to improved cooking technologies, such as cleaner

burning fuels or stoves which increase the completeness of solid fuel combustion. For example,

a nine-year study showed that replacing biomass with cleaner cook stove for cooking, as well as

improving kitchen ventilation, were associated with a reduced risk of chronic obstructive

pulmonary disorder (WHO report).

Incremental access to clean cooking outpaced growth in population in Africa, although the

speed of expansion slowed. In Sub-Saharan Africa, although there was a marginal improvement

in the pace of access gains, the growth rate still remained at about 0.3 percentage points

annually. Nevertheless, the region’s overall population grew four times as fast as the

population with access to clean cooking. To reach universal access to clean cooking by 2030,

the annual rate of clean cooking access between 2016 and 2030 needs to accelerate to 3

percentage points from an average annual growth rate of 0.5 percentage points that was seen

in 2010–16 (Global Alliance for cooking stove report).

Owing to slow progress to date, as well as population growth in the access-deficit countries, the

2030 target is unlikely to be met. If the current trajectory of access gains persists, 2.3 billion of

the global population will be without access to clean cooking in 2030 (IEA 2017). Unfortunately,

the rapid deployment of clean cooking fuels and technologies has not received adequate

attention from policy makers, and it lags behind the rate of electrification. High entry costs for

many clean cooking solutions, the lack of consumer awareness of their benefits, financing gaps

for producers seeking to enter clean fuel and stove markets, and slow progress in the

development of cook stove models and fuel production solutions exacerbate the challenges to

uptake of clean cooking solutions (World Bank 2015). It is clear that household air pollution

(HAP) is a major modifiable risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among the poor

in developing countries.

While the link between HAP and chronic lung disease and lung cancer is well established; direct

evidence for cardiovascular disease is still limited. The extent to which adopting clean cooking

can reduce this burden, and over what time horizon, remains unclear. Accelerating efforts to

increase access to clean, modern cooking fuels is essential for achieving the Sustainable Energy

for All (SE4All) goals and it’s a catalyst to other global developmental goals. Using polluting fuels

like wood and coal to cook and heat their homes, at a huge cost to the society, in terms of

health, environmental and economic costs. These numbers underline the urgent need to



accelerate the adoption of clean, efficient cooking fuels, which can save millions of lives and

help reach sustainable energy goals by 2030.

The project has the potential to support inclusive climate mitigation action that directly or

indirectly promotes women’s contributions to emission reductions. The project promotes

environmental, social, economic and development co-benefits and taking a gender-sensitive

approach. Efficient, effective, and equitable low-carbon development strategies must target

women as essential stakeholders, harness their knowledge and potential, and empower them

to contribute to poverty reduction, sustainable development, and effective climate change

responses.

For instance, emissions from household energy use and smallholder agriculture could be

significantly reduced if women who are managing household energy use and food resources are

provided with more efficient household technology, are trained in sustainable farming,

rewarded for conserving forests, and empowered to lead their communities toward sustainable

development. Women and men are affected differently by climate change. Women are still

considered primarily responsible for securing water, food, and fuel for cooking and heating and

are thus rendered more dependent on natural resources that are threatened by environmental

change. At the same time, widespread gender norms hinder women’s access to income, land

rights, and political participation, thereby limiting their coping capacity. Just as importantly,

women have a unique potential to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Women make decisions every day that affect the livelihood of their families and communities,

shape their environment, and influence the level of greenhouse gas emissions. Whether

managing organic waste, replanting trees, or using and retailing clean cook stoves, women are

often at the frontlines of fighting climate change this brief emphasizes women’s potential to

actively reduce harmful emissions and thus contribute to climate change mitigation.



PROBLEM STATEMENT / JUSTIFICATION

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 calls for universal access by 2030 to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services, including clean fuels and technologies (hereinafter known as “access to clean cooking stove) Clean fuels and technologies are critical for achieving the goals set by other SDGs that pertain to poverty alleviation, good health, gender equality, and climate action. Thus, the project, providing households with access to clean cooking is of vital importance in the Rural Gambia that is still experiencing access-deficit. Tracking household energy use, including primary and supplementary fuels and technologies for cooking, heating is nevertheless a complex exercise in the Gambia.

Vulnerability of the sector on the whole resides in various different effects, as set out in (Njie

2015). Rising temperatures combined with decreasing rainfall are likely to cause a decline in

standing forest biomass, and hence the renewable volume of fuel wood. Example collection of

fuel wood considerable a burden which is predominantly carried out by women and girls

normally walk up to 5km and spend many hours gathering fuel wood giving them less time to

read or relax.

The Gambia's energy supply comes exclusively from fuel wood. Fuel wood is the most important energy source in the country and accounts for about 80% of the country's primary



consumption the result to excessively dependence on primarily reliance on inefficient solid biomass stoves for cooking and heating. There are important gender and health considerations inherent in this. For example, when the supply of fuel wood is affected by drought, women and children in west coast Region walk up to 5 km and spent many hours gathering fuel wood for cooking and heating (Lahmeyer International, 2006). The poorest households in the rural Gambia typically use the most polluting fuels, and the adoption of cleaner energy sources is closely linked to poverty reduction more generally. Fuel sources progress from the open burning of dung/crop waste, to the use of wood, charcoal, kerosene, and finally, cleaner fuels such as LPG or natural gas, biogas or ethanol. The vast majority of health impacts from household air pollution are borne by the poor in the rural Gambia, especially women and children.

Women experience high exposure to air pollution due to their greater involvement in household activities such as cooking, sometimes with infants or children in close proximity. However, reliance on polluting fuels and technologies imposes a burden well beyond the smoke inhaled. Drudgery, injuries, safety risks and time loss are just some of the negative impacts. According to WHO Burning Opportunity report 2014, an analysis that girls in households that cook mainly with polluting fuels lose a significant amount of time – 15 to 30 hours each week – collecting wood or water, a higher time-loss burden than for boys. In the process of gathering fuel, sometimes with a weight 40kg or more, women and children can suffer ongoing cumulative physical strain and chronic discomfort. Women may also be at risk for threats of physical and sexual violence. Savings in terms of avoided sickness and illness, and associated healthcare costs, are among the most immediate and direct impacts of household pollution reductions. Since illness can be catastrophic for poor families, household air pollution reductions are also important to poverty reduction. By switching to clean energy, women and children can also suffer fewer health risks from collecting heavy loads, while also having more time to put towards other productive activities.

The Gambia pursuing low emission development strategies (LEDS) aim to grow their economy

while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing resilience to climate change impacts, and

achieving social development and environmental goals. These goals are crucial for the Gambia

Development Plans, as more than 90% of the Gambia’s rural population has no access to clean

cook stove and technologies. The project aims to address various environmental co-benefits

failure to provide would lead to deforestation and wide spread environmental degradation.

Traditional biomass is leading black-carbon pollutants and climate Co2 emission. A GHG neutral,

alternative cleaner cook stove would remain the most appropriate household energy solution

needed in order to promote economic development in rural Gambia and restrict climate

change. Primarily dependence on traditional biomass and excessive dependent on firewood

and charcoal for cooking and heating reduce country forest resources and natural vegetable

covers at alarming rate. The project would help in forest conservation and limiting GHG



emission would safe from protecting biodiversity and also promote effective management of

ecosystem.

Further assessment of impacts on health, environment, climate action, gender, and livelihood would be crucial to understanding the full burden of traditional solid fuels and technologies and to fully capture the interactions between the technologies, cooking environment. More than 2 million families in the Gambia cook with old traditional cook stoves which use firewood. These old stoves are considered ‘cheap’ – but families are unaware that the smoke produced by the stoves causes serious health risks. Traditional stoves produce indoor air pollution which cause illnesses that lead to about 5,000 premature deaths every year from illnesses, such as respiratory diseases, caused by indoor air pollution. Clean and affordable stoves can help reduce this healthcare hazard.

Women and children are particularly vulnerable because mothers, lacking help for child-care, often have their children close by when cooking these households continue to use traditional biomass for cooking. Unaware that smoke they inhale from the stoves causes illnesses and these families keep cooking with traditional stoves because they are considered cheaper. It is clear that household air pollution (HAP) is a major modifiable risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among the poor rural families in the Gambia. While the link between Household Air Pollution and chronic lung disease and lung cancer is well established; direct evidence for cardiovascular disease is still limited. Full adoption is further impeded by the lack of affordability of clean solutions; consumer preferences; and poor understanding of the health and environmental benefits and time savings of clean cooking. Cooking practices are entrenched in household culture, and mere access to clean energy fuels and technology does not ensure their use.

The extent to which adopting clean cooking can reduce this burden. Accelerating efforts to increase access to clean, modern cooking fuels is essential for achieving the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) goals and we’re not going to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals without universal access to clean cooking. These rural families still use polluting fuels like wood and coal to cook and heat their homes, at a huge cost to the society, in terms of health, environmental and economic costs. These underline the urgent need to accelerate the adoption of clean, efficient cooking fuels, which can save 2 million lives in the Gambia especially the women and children most vulnerable and also help reach sustainable development and energy goals by 2030.

This project aim to make necessary inroads on clean cooking as the issue crosses so many

sectors— it contributes to good health, gender inequality, and protecting the planet,

environment, technology, poverty alleviation and sustainable energy. The challenge is to

combine all of our forces to replace old cook stoves with newer, cleaner, and more efficient

ones. The project has the potential to support inclusive mitigation action that directly or

indirectly promotes women’s contributions to emission reductions. The project, also promote



environmental, social, economic and development co-benefits and taking a gender-sensitive

approach. Women can play a vital role in reducing emissions and contributing to sustainable

development When Women do better, countries do better, communities do better and families do

better. To tap their full potential, climate change measures must recognize women’s agency and

empower them to become meaningful agents of change. On the local level, project is

supporting the mainstreaming of gender into a clean cook stoves program to facilitate co-

benefit distribution that specifically targets and empowers women. The Projects also

demonstrate that gender-responsive mitigation is not only feasible but also effective, efficient,

and equitable. The project Harnessing Climate Change Mitigation Initiatives to Benefit Women

and climate co-benefit. Other benefits includes clean cook stove like ethanol deliver cooking

fuel with which families can prepare meals. This would help women and girls who no longer

suffer from smoke inhalation and hours spent collecting firewood.

Barriers and challenges the project will shift working to help one million households in the

Gambia to adopt clean and efficient cooking solutions. Our partnership is focusing on private

sector capacity building, fostering enabling markets, policy change and addressing barriers by

region and segment. One of the biggest challenges facing market growth is the dependence on

traditional fuel sources. Wood and dung, for instance, come at little to no financial cost, and are

often the fuels of choice for rural household who live below the poverty line in the Gambia.

Clean fuels and technologies are also critical for achieving the development goals set by other

SDGs that pertain to poverty alleviation, good health, gender equality, and climate action. Thus,

providing households with access to cleaner cook stove is of vital importance in the Gambia

that is still experiencing access-deficit. The low-emission stoves serve as an important

transitional solution—with some benefits for health and livelihoods—until they can graduate to

the cleanest solutions. Clean cooking can improve women`s health as they switch from

traditional biomass stove to improve cleaner cook stove for cooking and heating. Traditional

stove produce both indoor and outdoor air pollution, and are major contributors to ill health,

such as respiratory illnesses, burns caused by accidental household fires, headaches, kidney

damage, blood clots, cardiovascular disease, strokes and cancer – and hence can impact

negatively on national health and health budgets. Clean cook stoves, on the other hand,

contributes to improved public health and air quality, with reductions in coughing, flu-like

symptoms, eye irritation and respiratory illnesses through improved indoor air quality. The

continued reliance on traditional solid fuels for cooking has led to significant health issues,

deforestation, and natural resource degradation. Switching to clean cook stove will Reduce

indoor and outdoor air pollution would save thousands of lives and help slow the pace of near-

term climate change. Switching from open fires or rudimentary stoves to “improved” biomass

stoves can reduce black carbon and PM2.5 emissions by a factor of 10 or greater, as well as



reducing harmful CO emissions. Our estimate suggested that the deployment of 15000

advanced combustion LPG and ethanol stoves in rural Gambia would result in an annual health

savings of 5000 disability adjusted life years (DALYs) annually, and a reduction of 0.5

megatonnes of black carbon, per thousand populations. The project will shine a spotlight on the

urgencies for bring affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern household energy source to

under serve communities in west coast region that are at the risk of being left behind. These

population are vulnerable to poverty, climate impact and other extremely economics

challenges, yet they lack a voice, finance and political capacity for changing the situation. The

project will serve as a bench mark progress towards achieving modern energy access and

improving energy efficiency by 2030. Significant rural population is missing out on education,

healthcare, and broader economic opportunities because they don’t have access to clean

affordable cook stove. The project will highlight the role sustainable energy can play in

achieving ambitious climate action and reaching other sustainable development goals and

accelerator towards progress on global sustainable energy goals under SDG7 and the Paris

climate agreement

Specific objective

To Reduce household air pollution, save women and children`s lives and slow the pace

of near-term climate change.

To avert the risk of diseases related to household air pollution such as premature

mortality deaths, stroke, respiration disease, lungs and heart disease with access to

improved cook stove and technologies.

To combat climate change while also protecting public health and transforming the rural

economy to cleaner energy source.

To protect women’s and children`s health and improving Air Quality, avoided premature

mortality death and disability in the Rural Gambia.

To achieve ambitious Paris agreement, climate goals, slashing indoor air pollution and

enhancing and contributing to other sustainable development goals (SDGs 2,4,5,8 and

13)

Lowering total percentage of the rural population primary reliance on inefficient

traditional solid biomass stoves



Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from household energy sector and helping to move

the economy beyond polluting energy source and towards a safer and more sustainable

future.

Improve public health and protecting natural vegetation covers, combating

deforestation and improving the livelihood of the rural women and girls.

Lowering the policy and market barriers access to cleaner cook stove and other clean

low carbon energy solution.

Lowering indoor air pollution and tackling the root cause of climate change.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing community resilience to climate change

impacts, and achieving socioeconomic development and environmental goals.

PLANNED ACTIVITIES

Sensitizing and awareness raising and behavior change campaign to popularize among

households in the communities as a climate mitigation strategy and health benefits.

Manufacture and distribute clean cook stove for the rural household population.

strength policy and institutional capacities

Established stakeholder platform to help convene the clean cooking sector that has

a target to reach 1million households by 2020 in rural Gambia.

Intuitional Capacity building and policy advocacy , stakeholders workshop

Establishment of viable community institutional structure to promote greater

participation of its development.

The project will Focus capacity building on empowerment of the local communities,

particularly women for greater participation.

Develop and introduce training programs for local communities and

Focus on localized training of women to enhance their inclusion in clean cook stove.

Collection of data, including information about the types of jobs being offered (part time, full time, contractual); the levels of skills required (skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled); who is being employed; and employees' socioeconomic status.



Conduct studies, supported by field surveys, to understand the impact energy saving cook stove have on public health, air pollution, poverty reduction and changes in livelihoods.

EXPECTED BENEFITS / OUTCOME FROM THE INTERVENTION:

“Access to clean cooking”. Clean fuels and technologies are critical for achieving the goals set by other Sustainable Development Goals that pertain to poverty alleviation (SDG2), good health and wellbeing (SDG 4), gender equality (SDG 5), and climate action (SDG 13).

Providing households with access to clean cooking stove is of vital importance in honoring Paris agreement and Climate Goals.

the low-emission stoves serve as an important transitional solution—with benefits for women`s and children`s health and livelihoods.

Improve public health with reduce household air pollution level. Reducing harmful Greenhouse Gas emission and black carbon stock

Other expected outcomes of our intervention includes Environmental Benefits includes: (A). conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem through

limiting rate dependant on firewood by enhancing ecological importance forest areas

protecting ecosystem. (B). Improving indoor and outdoor air quality (C) reduce GHG emission

to achieve sustainable low carbon so-economic development (D) reduce the rate of climate

impact and lowering air pollution and concentration (E). It will also reduce the rate of

deforestation and forest degradation in the area. (F) Help in restoration of degradation land

and also restrict climate change. (G) Promote green economy both climate change adaptation

and mitigation objectives and honoring Paris agreement.(H) help in conservation and the

sustainable use of environment and natural resources

Economic Benefits includes: (A) Increase local employment opportunities due to in production which also encourage

investment that help deliver sustainable product and service.(B) significantly encourage entrepreneur activities for women and private sector to participate in the sector. (C) Reduce poverty and built resilient climate resilient economy (E) Explore the immediate replacement of traditional biomass as a source of cooking and heating.

Social Benefits includes:



Improve livelihood of women and health benefits for women and children while limiting the

impact of climate change (b) lowering Household Air Pollution from discontinues of traditional

solid biomass from charcoal and firewood. (E) Women and children are able to learn how to

read and write and give more time to rest and allow them involve in small business. (c) Gender

equality and women empowerment and advancement of women equal participation.

Public health benefits:

(A) Health benefits from clean cooking interventions through premature averted death and

disability through averted disability-adjusted life years. (B) Reducing Kitchen Air

Pollution thereby improve Air quality and averted burn injuries, lungs cancer, severe

headache, stroke and respiration disease. (c) Reduce maternal mortality rate and

expected to mitigate emissions of other harmful air pollutants—including oxides of

nitrogen (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), oxides of sulfur, organic hydrocarbons, and

hazardous air pollutants. (d) Enhance household food security and reduce malnutrition.

Policy impact.

(a) De-carbonization of energy sector in which energy carbonization in-line with the 2degrees

temperature rise target under Paris climate agreement. (b) strength policy and institutional

capacities to overcome barrier to generate investment into modern clean cook stove. (c)

Remove clarity of institutional and policy constraint in domestic finance and also lack of data

on energy source needs for effective response.

PROJECT DIRECT BENEFICIARIES

The project will be implemented in west coast region benefit the most vulnerable sections of society women and girls. In terms of Access to Clean cook stove, capacity building and training and outreach, the distribution and awareness creation measures reached out to:

- Total beneficiary households: 10527 o Direct beneficiary households: 7595 o Indirect beneficiary households: 2932 (e.g. through awareness campaigns)

- Total beneficiary individuals: 20099 o Direct beneficiary individuals: 9563 o Indirect beneficiary individuals: 10536 (e.g. through awareness campaigns)

At local level, public health, Air quality, socio economic conditions and environmental services have improved resulting in enhanced adaptive capacity of the local communities. The experience gained and the capacity built would enable some of the implementation partners to venture into clean cook stove enterprise.



PROJECT BENEFICIARY REGION:

Project Beneficiary, Busura village, marakissa village and dimbaya village in West coast region

are selected beneficiaries villages for the project. The three villages combine had a population

of 25,000 and the total area of the region is 7km square. Brikama is local government area and

is divided into nine districts .Foni Bintang, Foni bandali, Foni Berefit, Foni Jarol,Foni Kansala,

Kombo Central, Kombo North, Kombo South, Kombo East. Literacy rate are higher and poverty

ratio is 22.4% (per 2003census). People living in these remote villages of west coast region still

use polluting fuels like wood and coal to cook and heat their homes, at a huge cost to the

society, in terms of health, environmental and economic costs as they lack access to cleaner

cook stove and technologies and are forced to rely on polluting and inconvenient traditional

four leg open fire with solid fuel like woods, charcoal.

Women and children face the biggest risks because they spend most time around the

household. There are important gender and health consideration inherit in this for example

when the supply of fuel wood is affected by drought women and girls in these villages walk up

to 5kilometers and spent many hours gathering fuel woods for cooking which they are exposed

to health effects and high level of insecurity. Women as girls no time relax or time to read and

the significant number of these women and girls in the communities of west coast region are

still missing out on quality education, better health, jobs and broader economic opportunities

because they don’t have access to clean efficient cook stove for heating and cooking.

The project would provide the most viable way to ensure that every households have access to

clean cook stove and technologies in west coast region contributing to Sustainable

Development Goal (SDG7) and transformation of lives by improving health (SDG 3), better

education (SDG 4), poverty alleviation (SDG1) , zero hunger (SDG2) gender equality (SDG 5) ,

better jobs and income generation (SDG 8) and environmental sustainability and climate action

(SDG 13)



IMPLIMENTATION / SUPERVISION AND REPORTING

Network for Climate Action will be the Implementing Entity for the project. The project

implementation arrangements count on the combined capacity of public, private and

community level to assist in project implementation. The three main entities involved in the

project baseline implementation in three years’ period would be the Ministry of Energy (MoE),

Network for Climate Action (NCAO) and private cook stove developers. Network for Climate

Action (NCAO) will be the lead agency responsible for the implementation of the project. The

MoE will have a leading role in the implementation of the policy and capacity development

activities on mainstreaming into government policies and programs.

The N.C.A.O will also monitor project implementation by Executing Entities our outstanding

private sector. The achievement of the project outcomes/outputs and ensuring the efficient use

of donors fund. In addition, the project is intelligently designed and carefully planned with local

input and cooperation with assessing local needs, we adapt the project to meet those needs,

and we also include local women groups and women leaders in the communities in project

design. The proposed project will be managed and monitored by a dedicated EDA Project

Management Unit (PMU). They will be employed with project funding and will include the

following positions:

Project Management Team (PMT) would be established and be responsible for overseeing

implementation of the project. The PMT would be led by a Project Coordinator and would be

assisted by a Financial Officer, a Procurement Officer, a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

who would coordinate the reports from the project sites to present quarterly statistical reports,

preparation of annual work plans, project risk monitoring and annual progress reports on the

project. The project would involve the established transparent and efficient local partners on

the ground making sure everything is properly and accurately done and documented. Ensure

capacity development and knowledge transfer and ownership to the local stakeholders. Local

communities will be train on maintenance and how to develop cleaner cook stove. Local

committees are also created to ensure proper management and involvement of local

communities and to Create a sense of ownership and contribution to the growth, planning and

distributions of supply processes.



Progress reports:

the Implementing organization will provide both financial and progress report at the end of

each mile stones together with the narrative progress report. The financial report will provide

details on all expenditures incurred during the reporting period. Progress report on achieving

clean cooking targets and provide a fuller picture of the impact of clean cook stove access to

the targeted beneficiaries’ household. We will carry out impact assessments to improve data on

the development in cook stove access and pollution reduction and also will monitor progress

against key development indicators.



REMARKS

More than 95% of the Gambia population and more than one million people in Gambia lived in

extreme poverty. They had either severely limited or no access to better education, healthcare,

water and sanitation, and energy (Njai 2016). About 1.5 million people in Gambia have no

access to clean cooking and technologies, and almost 1.7 million people both rural and urban

areas are still rely on traditional biomass (firewood and charcoal) for cooking and heating their

homes.

The project is design and developed base on ambitious vision and thoughtful planning and

engagement with the local communities and stakeholders to develop a roadmap with national

targets to scale up the use of energy saving cook stove. Many of the lessons will be replicable in

other geographical rural regions of the Gambia. Project will contribute to the country’s

development objectives while enhancing community resilience to climate change and avoiding

greenhouse gas emissions from household energy sector. The project serves as a safety net and

behavioral change intervention the meet the needs of low income household in the

communities of west-coast region. Sustainable energy solution that generates and delivers

household energy to the local communities cover their living and comfort needs. The positive

impact of such demand‐driven household energy systems on local communities goes beyond

the delivery of energy services and providing universal access to modern, affordable, reliable

clean cook stove contribute to (SDG 7).



The project has address and solves many development challenges. Advancing employment in

local communities reducing rural urban migration among people, it also helps promote

sustainable economic growth (SDG 8). Increasing the share of local energy sources will also

contribute to combat climate change and its impacts (SDG 13). Universal access to clean

cooking is the key to improving the health and well-being of people (SDG4) poverty alleviation

(SDG2) and education (SDG3).

Access to clean cook is especially critical to improving public health, safety, productivity, better

education, and income-generation opportunities particularly for women and girls, who are

disproportionately impacted by lack of access. The project will create direct employment,

trained and hired local youth and women to manufacture, distribution, repairs. Their earnings

allowed them to invest in other sectors, and improved the social and economic value of the

women in the communities and benefits to rural economy and improve livelihood to thousands

of poor citizens, the new jobs can make a difference to rural poor people, especially women,

who have few formal sector employment opportunities.

This project will also focus on helping the country create and implement policies and

regulations that level the playing field and allow clean cook to compete with traditional

sources, as well as improving countries’ access to emissions and energy data, economic

analysis, and information about best practices for cost-effective, low-emission development

options. Access to clean cook stove is essential to improve public health and Air Quality in rural

west coast region. more than ,95% of these population have no access to clean cook and more

than 1.5 million population are still lacking and use fuels like wood, charcoal, coal and dung for

cooking and heating leading cause of Household Air Pollution a major driver of the non

communicable disease epidemic. Traditional biomass reduces country forest vegetation cover

and natural resource.



References

Indoor Air Quality Guidelines: Household fuel combustion: http://www.who.int/indoorair/guidelines/hhfc/en/

IEA (International Energy Agency). 2017. “Energy Access Outlook 2017: from Poverty to Prosperity.” IEA, Paris

World Bank. 2015. “The State of the Global Clean and Improved Cooking Sector.” ESMAP Technical Report 007/15. World Bank, Washington, DC.

Health and Sustainable Development website: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/HSD_Plaq_02.2_Gb_def1.pdf

Burning Opportunity: Clean Household Energy for Health, Sustainable Development, and Wellbeing of Women and Children (2016):

http://www.who.int/indoorair/publications/burning-opportunities/en/

http://www.who.int/indoorair/guidelines/hhfc/en/

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/HSD_Plaq_02.2_Gb_def1.pdf

http://www.who.int/indoorair/publications/burning-opportunities/en/

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