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GIZ HERA Cooking Energy Compendium
Preface
Basics about Cooking Energy
Facts on CE
- MDGs
- Energy Access
- CE on national/ regional agenda
- German Dev Coop
- lesssons learnt
- Frequently Asked Questions
Policy Advisory: Assistance for Decision Makers on Policy Level
Designing and implementing<strike
Intervention A: Market Introduction of efficient Woodfuel Stoves
Scoping
- Scoping on ICS opportunities (2.1 Planning an Improved Cookstove Project)
national produciton VS. imported stoves
- value chain on CE
- Carbon Funding (2.7 Funding Opportunities for Cookstove Projects)
- HH, SME, SI
ICS Supply intervention
- Enhancing availability/ supply of ICS (2.2 Production of Woodfuel Stoves)
Product devolpment, production and marketing systems (incl. trainers) - 2.3 Commercialisation of Cookstoves
- 2.5 Creation of Public Awareness
- User behaviour of customers
- 2.4 Financing Mechanisms for Cookstove Dissemination
- Quality assurance of ICS
national standards - Scaling up strategies
- 2.6 Monitoring Cookstove Projects
outcome monitoring, impact monitoring - Sustainability
sustainability assessment, exit
Fuel Supply intervention 'Intervention B: Sustainable Woodfuel Supply'
Intervention C: Fuel Switching and alternative Technologies (non-wood-based)
Cooking energy technologies and practices
Efficient cooking with wood fuels
- Efficient Technogolies
woodfuel stove types (HH, SME, SI)
- wood
- charcoal (kilns) - Efficient user behaviour
fuel management, stove usage - Testing of woodfuel stoves
Cooking with other biomass fuels
Cooking with nonbiomass fuels
- 4.1 Cooking with Sun
- Cooking with fossil fuels
4.3 Cooking with Kerosene and LPG, Kohle Herde
User behaviour on Cooking Energy
- Kitchen management
- ...
4.4 Using other energy-saving Technologies and Techniques



















