Cookswell Energy Saving Jikos

Professional Energy Saving Charcoal Stoves and Ovens for all your Business needs.

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Sirikoi Camp, Lewa Downs.

A large oven at Sirikoi Camp in Lewa Downs. 40,000ksh

A medium oven being inspected by the chef. 20,000ksh

A 6 burner BBQ jiko for 15,000ksh and a double boiler charcoal cooker for 6,000ksh

The best heavy duty multiple burner energy saving charcoal stoves. Cookswell Jikos

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A three burner with removable ashtrays. @ 6,000ksh

A six burner stove, perfect for businesses and schools. 15,000ksh, save over 50% on your charcoal bills.

A large 3 burner jiko 6,000

Cook standing up with an inbuilt no-mess ash tray, customizable 3-9 burner jiko systems for all types of cooking needs, and of course, Cookswell Quality, Durability and Guaranteed To save HUGE on your energy bills.

Grow and make your own charcoal in half the time at half the cost!

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An indigenous acacia tree can start producing, with less the 800mm of rain per year, up to one bag of good charcoal using only the branches under a coppicing regime within appx.10 years.

It's never too late or too far to start planting your own wood-energy.

Nor should it be too expensive, 1pkt of Kenya Seeds of Change costs only 100ksh, in it you get over 300 seeds of 3 types of hardy high value acacia trees. Using direct seeding methods reduces your planting costs to as little as 6khs per tree.

And small scale charcoal making has never been so easy, use one of our improved kilns and make up to 50kgs a day using only tree branches!

Or make a bit more charcoal using the new smokeless charcoal making method by Dr. Maxwell Kinyanjui, cut your labor cost by 60% and increase production!

The 'super' Mini Safari Charcoal Oven.

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The micro-safari charcoal oven.

Plenty of space for a full chicken or a loaf of bread

Unique woven wooden handles

Insist on quality, buy a Cookswell.

The best energy saving stoves for picnics and safaris.

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The Cookswell Mini - Charcoal Space Heater with Optional 10" Kibab BBQ Ring

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With detachable feet for carrying, long-last heavy duty metal and wooden safety handle @ 3,800Ksh

Our Newest Multi-Stove, only 28,000ksh. A Medium Charcoal Oven Combined with a No. 13 Kenya Ceramic Jiko

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Baking, boiling, frying, roasting, steaming, sauteing......All of your cooking needs on one portable charcoal saving jiko.

Includes: Standard non-skid rubber feet, a no mess ash tray, a 1 year guarantee and one packet of Kenya Seeds of Change tree seeds for a future supply of charcoal.
All of our multi-stoves can be ordered in many different combinations as per your need. For a BBQ attachment, a firewood/biomass stove attachement or different sized ovens, please contact us for a quote and to place your order.

Perfect Backyard BBQ's with a Cookswell Oven

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Good fun in the Sun and all on a handfull of charcoal.
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Some of the different sizes of Cookswell Charcoal Ovens.

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The small two level @ 8000Ksh, the small 3 level @ 11,000ksh, the medium 3 level @ 18,000 and the medium 4 level @ 21,000ksh.

Order today for free delivery inside Nairobi Area during August.

Energy saving double boiler jiko's with in-built food warmers

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the double boilers with in-built food warmers, a photo by charcoal _bora on Flickr.

5,000ksh and 8,000ksh respectivly

The Deluxe Cookswell Charcoal Oven

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The Deluxe Cookswell Charcoal Oven with:
Standard
- Detachable stand with skid-free rubber feet
- No mess ashtray
- Removable grills and ceramic firebox
- Clean-wipe aluminum interior
with additional
- A 15ltr Cookswell hot water system
- Unique woven olive wood door handles

Bake bread and cakes, roast chicken and BBQ steaks while you bake potatoes, squash, and fish. All on only a small handfull of charcoal.
The small deluxe oven starting at 33,000ksh only.

The Cookswell Large Charcoal Oven,

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Perfect for Commercial Bakeries Tired of Expensive Power Cuts and Unreasonable LPG gas prices.
Starting at 30,000ksh*
Optional 20ltr hot water system at 11,000ksh

New models of Energy Saving Cookstoves being introduced in Nanyuki Town, Kenya

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Taking new models of energy saving stoves on tour in Nanyuki Town.

Please go to Cherengani Hardware Store behind the Nakumatt, appx. 0.5km on Prison road to take advantage of our factory direct prices. Or contact 0771.935.140 to place an order.

Baking, Roasting, Toasting, Steaming

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Baking, Roasting, Toasting, Steaming, a photo by charcoal _bora on Flickr.

Proudly available in Nakumatt and Uchumi Supermarkets all over Kenya, and in the Nakumatt Supermarket in Kampala and Kigali.

Also available at
Chardust Ltd...Nairobi
The Tree Planting Advisory Cenetr Ololunga....past Narok

an original Cookswell KCJ stove

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an original Cookswell kcj stove, a photo by charcoal _bora on Flickr.

dont be fooled by replicas, note the high quality of liner and number of holes. and the thickness of the pot rests, buy and original Jiko to last a lifetime

Cookswell Ovens are perfect for roasting a whole meal

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roast russet potatoes and rosemary

Cook a whole meal at once with your Cookswell Oven, because of its design all of the food will cook evenly right through while dripping off excessive fat and sealing in the moisture for a delicious sunday dinner chicken or T-bone's with roast potatoes and ratatoilli, all of the food was cooked on about 18Ksh worth of homegrown and home made charcoal.

Cook perfect nyama choma with tasty accompinments.

Buisness Sized Cookswell Energy Saving Charcoal Jikos

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perfect for pool sized bbqs


A six burner cermaic bbq jiko with adjusting grill,	save 50% charcoal compaired to metal bqq's

Braizing meat balls and making garlic bread as part of a 4 course meal for an alomost full house

Buy a high efficency drum kiln today!

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Best used as a houshold device for making charcoal from branches and waste bits of wood and storing the charcoal.

Cost per bag of charcoal can be as low as 105Ksh (1.50$)
One round of carbonization can produce in 1 day enough charcoal for a family of 4 to cook daily on a Cookswell Energy Saving Charcoal Oven or Kenya Cermaic Jiko.

From our field studies, one packet of Kenya Seeds of Change Woodfuel Tree Seeds (appx. count 300pcs) can, in 10 years be the continualy coppiced feedstock for the drum kiln.

And voila, sustainble back yard energy for cooking. With that special charcoal aroma. And no bribes paid on the sack of charcoal.

Preformance Specs:
2ft x 3.5ft
18gauge mild steel
Output of 50kg's max per day
Conversion rate of appx. 7kgs per hour
Fully rainproof for storage.

The team from the Sundowner Cafe - fully powered by Cooskwell Jiko's!

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The front of house at the cafe, fresh bread for Mara Rienda Town

The Sundowner Team, these three jikos help provide employent, and reduce smoke exposure to these 6 people.

Hot chapatis fresh off the skillet!

And the owner himself, the inoovative Mr. David Ambasa,

Energy Saving Stoves in the Maasai Mara Area

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some of the 100+ loaves of bread fresh out of the oven

A Oven Jiko On Safari In the Nyakeweri Forest, Trans-Mara. Cooking Lunch for 5 People

Two Medium Sized Cookswell Charcoal Ovens being used in the first bakery in Mara Reinda Village, They make about 140 loaves of white and brown bread per day and about 200 cupcakes. On less then 1/4 bag of charcoal

The Retail store for our Kenya Ceramic Jikos in the Village of Mara Reinda. With 50% energy savings this lady can spend less money on charcoal, be exposed to less smoke then firewood and can still cook all of her familys favorite meals.

Maasai Mara Jiko Deliveries

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No matter where you are, a Cookswell Jiko is for you and your family, Save Energy, Save Money, Eat Well!

An 8 Burner Chef's Special

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8 Energy Saving Stoves with 2 inbuilt food warmers

Only 14.500Ksh

New Optional Extra - Twisted Wooden Handles!

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Our Original Hand Twisted Wooden Handles from

The Kitengela Arboretum

Seedlings for Sale! please click for a larger view

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Perfect for Baking in Remote Locations

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Included in the charcoal oven is a packet of charcoal producing indiginous acacia tree seeds (appx. 300) for future fuel.

Kenya Ceramic Jiko and Charcoal Oven Price List- Original Quality Factory Direct Prices

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Kenya Ceramic Jiko Stand Type	Small- 400/=	Standard-500/=	No. 13 (inches) - 1,500/=	No 14.” The largest size, 1,900/=
Kenya Ceramic Jiko BellBottom	Small – 400/=	Standard- 500/=	Medium – 700/=
Kenya Ceramic Jiko Straight Body	Small – 400/=	Standard – 500/=	Medium – 700/=
The double boiler	No 13 liners. 6,500/=	No 14 liners 9,000/=
The Space heater	Charcoal Small 6 ,000/=	Charcoal Medium 8,000/=	Firewood (36in), 29,000
The Charcoal Saving Nyama Choma with machine	4burner 12,000ksh	6 burner 16,000kshs
Kenya Seeds Of Change	200/= per pkt

Charcoal Oven Type

Size

Price

*Optional Hot Water System

The Micro Safari Companion

Small

6,000ksh

n/a

The Domestic Sized Ovens

Small With 2 levels

Small With 3 Levels

10,000ksh

15,000ksh

3,500ksh

5,500ksh

The Family and Small Business Sized Ovens

Medium with 3 Levels

Medium with 4 Levels

22,000ksh

30,000ksh

6,000ksh

6,500ksh

The Business Plus Ovens

Large with 3 levels

35,000ksh

11,000ksh

The Heavy Industry Size

Extra Large with4 Levels

40,000ksh

15,000ksh

Our Jiko's around the world

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One of our Charcoal Ovens shipped to Malawi, just out side of Lilongwe, used for baking scones. thanks Grahm Lentner from Engineers without Borders. A small Oven just outside of Seattle Keeping you warm and cook dinner!

Saving energy and making tea for a lucky friend in Okinawa, Japan!

A large charcoal oven in Wau, South Sudan. Used with a mobile road crew for baking fresh bread. As seen with a De-Facto Sharholder, Ms. Susan Kinyanjui M.A

Eat Well! Use Less Energy!

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A Delicious Roast

25 years of improved cookstove innovations. Some pieces from the Kitengela Jiko Museum

A backyard picinc at the Kitengela Arboretum
Jikos for the country!

Homemade Charcoal for Cooking Homemade Food

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One of the best dryland woodfuel trees, 8 years old in the kitengela arboretum

5 year old woodstock ready for pollarding havesting to make small batch homemade charcoal

A clay pot is actually an amazingly effcient methode of making charcoal

Or just use a 200ltr drum with firesticks

Save a fortune on energy inputs for small scale rural and urban bakeries if you can make your own charcoal

Also great for powering your backyard BBQ's, plant and harvest your own energy

Energy Svaing KCJ jikos going to save charcoal in Kampala and Kigali!

Think Globally, Act Locally And Eat Well!

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Kenya Ceramic Jiko Stand Type	Small- 380/=	Standard-400/=	No. 13 (inches) - 1,200/=	No 14.” The largest size, 1,500/=
Kenya Ceramic Jiko BellBottom	Small – 280/=	Standard- 330/=	Medium – 400/=
Kenya Ceramic Jiko Straight Body	Small – 300/=	Standard – 400/=	Medium – 430/=
The double boiler	No 13 liners. 6,500/=	No 14 liners 8,500/=
The Space heater	Charcoal Small 6 ,000/=	Charcoal Medium 8,000/=	Firewood (36in), 29,000
The Charcoal Saving Nyama Choma with machine	4burner 12,000ksh	6 burner 16,000kshs
Kenya Seeds Of Change	200/= per pkt

Kenya Ceramic Jiko Price List-
Original Quality Factory Direct Prices

Charcoal Oven Type

Size

Price

*Optional Hot Water System

The Micro Safari Companion

Small

5,000ksh

n/a

The Domestic Sized Ovens

Small With 2 levels

Small With 3 Levels

9,000ksh

11,000ksh

2,500ksh

3,500ksh

The Family and Small Business Sized Ovens

Medium with 3 Levels

Medium with 4 Levels

19,000ksh

24,000ksh

4,000ksh

6,000ksh

The Business Plus Ovens

Large with 3 levels

Large with 4 levels

30,000ksh

38,000kshs

9,000ksh

12,000ksh

The Heavy Industry Size

Extra Large with4 Levels

40,000ksh

15,000ksh

Hybrid Energy Solutions For Remote Locations

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Two complimentary household energy systems for living in remote places. Solar and Biomass.

Buy and Use a Energy Saving Jiko~~~Think Globaly-Act Locally and Eat Well!

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Each jiko you buy reduces the amount of charcoal needed~trees cut down....Each tree you plant helps to absorb the carbon emitted from the charcoal that you can now be growing for future use. And of course provides all the other ecological trickledown effects from tree planting; rain, soil security, clean air, animal habitat etc..

We have got a fine line of all types of Energy Saving jikos and ovens to fit all your cooking needs.

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A medium sized oven with 4 levels

20,000kshs
Optional 15 liter hot water system @ 5000/=

The No. 14 Double Boiler with a food warmer in the middle and ash trays.
7,500KSH

Come and Visit our Factory Direct Sales Office in Kitnegle Town to learn more!

We deliver in the greater Nairobi Metropolitin area at resonable fees.

International Shipping Avavilable!
contact: www.musakitreade@yahoo.com for a quote

Biomass Energy Training

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Backyard Charcoal and Biochar

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Oven Jiko Roasting BBQ for Safari!

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On evening BBQ's or fresh baked bread in the bush,

Buy your Energy Saving Charcoal Jiko at Nakumatt or Uchumi Supermarkets!

Kinyanjui Jikos ~ The wholesale shop

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Welcome to the whole sale jiko shop and energy arboretum!Home of the KCJ

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In-Depth Solution Coverage
Research, Development and Commercialization of the Kenya Ceramic Jiko and other Improved Biomass Stoves in Africa

Background
Parties to the Project
Type of Agreement
Commercial Considerations
Process used
Training/Support
Barriers
Benefits

Lessons Learned
Implementation Status
Follow-up Strategy
International Involvement
Documentation Endeavors
Web Links
Organization Reference People
References

Primary location:
Kenya, Africa

Information Source:
Daniel M. Kammen, Ph.D.
Chair, Science, Technology & Environmental Policy (STEP) Program
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544-1013 USA

1. Background

There has been a combination of local input and international agency involvement, along with many others, who participated in developing The Kenya Ceramic Jiko (KCJ). The stove is a portable improved charcoal burning stove consisting of an hour-glass shaped metal cladding with an interior ceramic liner that is perforated to permit the ash to fall to the collection box at the base. A thin layer of vermiculite or cement is placed between the cladding and the liner. A single pot is placed on the rests at the top of the stove.

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Cut-away of the Kenya Ceramic Jiko

The KCJ is the result of research on stove design, efficiency, and patterns of usage initiated in the 1970's and actively continued through the 1980's (Kinyanjui and Minae, 1982; Openshaw, 1982; Barnes et al., 1994; Kammen, 1995a,b).

The KCJ has been promoted by local and international agencies. There are now more than 200 businesses, artisans, and micro-enterprise or informal sector manufacturers producing over 13,000 stoves each month. There are over 700,000 KCJ's in use in Kenya (Walubengo, 1995); the stoves are found in over 50% of all urban homes, and roughly 16% of rural homes. The general features of the KCJ program and the stove design itself have both been the utilized in formulating improved biomass stove programs in a number of African nations. The ovens are now in use in more than 30 nations.

If used and maintained properly, the KCJ can reduce fuel use by 30 - 50%, although not surprisingly there is considerable variation based on the extent of training and outreach efforts, stove quality, and cooking practices. The KCJ also reduces emissions of products of incomplete combustion (carbon monoxide, nitrogen and sulfur oxides and various organic compounds), as well as particulate matter, the latter of which contributes to acute respiratory infection, the leading cause of illness in developing nations. Quantifying the degree of emissions reductions in actual home conditions is an ongoing area of study, with estimates of 20% in the literature

(Karekezi and Ranja, 1997).

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2. Parties to the Project

A formal private sector company, Jerri International, served as the initial manufacturer of the KCJ. This arrangement was subject to debate, and KCJ production then evolved into two, often related, informal sector activities: production of the metal cladding by artisans who were generally already producing traditional metal stoves in Kenya; and production of the ceramic liner, which is produced in a number of regional or rural clay and pottery workshops and factories.

Since 1982 the Kenya Energy and Environment Organization (KENGO) has organized promotion and outreach efforts to encourage the use of the KCJ. A number of foundations, including CARE, UNICEF, and the Bellerive Foundation have all played roles in the evolution of the stove and the stove dissemination process, as has the U. S. (US AID) and German (GTZ) aid and development organizations. The Foundation for Woodstove Dissemination has worked both within Kenya and internationally as the coordinator of a network of stove researchers, promoters, and dissemination specialists.

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3. Type of Agreement

As outlined above, the KCJ evolved through the efforts of a number of public and private sector organizations with interests in aid, development, health, and environmental conservation. Feedback from groups of users, including women's cooperatives

4. Commercial Considerations

The process of research, development, demonstration and then commercialization that led first to the KCJ and then to other stove models in Kenya was seeded by international and local development funds. After explicit consideration a decision was made not to directly subsidize commercial stove production and dissemination. Initially stoves were expensive (~ US$ 15/stove), sales were slow, and the quality was variable. Continued research and refinement, and expanded numbers and types of manufacturers and vendors increased competition, and spurred innovations in materials used and in production methods. The wholesale and retail network for stoves is now extensive. The KCJ can be purchased in a variety of sizes. Prices for KCJ models have decreased to roughly US$ 1 - 3 depending on stove size, design and quality (Kammen, 1995a; Walubengo, 1995). This decrease is consistent with the 'learning curve' theory of price reductions through innovations that result from experience gained in the manufacturing, distribution, marketing and sales process.

The ceramic liner of the KCJ degrades over time, and needs to be replaced. Street vendors of stoves, and many of the larger stove sales outlets take 'used' stoves back, discounting the purchase of a new stove. The liners of the old stove are then removed, the metal cladding is repaired, if needed, and the stove is reassembled, repainted, and resold. This process has also served to involve a wider informal sector economy in the stove process.

Reductions in fuel use associated with the KCJ and other improved stoves have been examined in a number of countries. In Kenya charcoal use among a sample of families using the KCJ fell from 0.67 to 0.39 kg/charcoal/day. This totals over 600 kg of charcoal/year for an average family, and a savings of over $US 60/year. A study in Rwanda prior to the war found charcoal use fell from 0.51 kg/person/day to 0.33 with the use of improved stoves. Personal incomes in Kenya and Rwanda average $300 - 400/year (Karekezi and Ranja, 1997).

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5. Process used to Select Technologies for Use in the Project

The KCJ is derived from a 'bucket' stove that a team of Kenyan researchers examined in Thailand, and then was successively adapted to east African cooking practices. The stove has continued to evolve in response to usage, metal fatigue and other tests, as well as in response to feedback from stove users.

6. Types of Training/Support Involved

KCJ production and dissemination was not financially subsidized although a number of Kenyan and international groups have been active in stove promotion through campaigns based on stove convenience, reduced fuel use, improved health and safety. These same groups have also conducted training courses for stove manufacturers, vendors, and end-users.

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7. Barriers That Were Overcome

The KCJ project faced a number of important barriers, including: the view held by some researchers and dissemination groups (Kammen, 1995b) that there could be a bias against changing the cooking style at all; the need to promote the stove as fuel saving despite higher initial costs; and the need to conduct training and support services for a seemingly 'simple' household technology. A success and a drawback of the stove program is the network of often informal sector manufacturers and vendors. On the one hand, the direct and grass-roots commercialization fully integrates the KCJ into the local economy. On the other hand, quality and price variations in the stoves produced in such diverse settings can be great, including a number of clearly sub-standard models. Stoves manufactured poorly rarely stay in the market for long, but opinion of the stoves, and individual bad experiences can color the future interest of potential users.

8. Benefits to Recipient/Provider

The KCJ provides a number of important benefits to the end user, reduced requirements for fuel, reduced pollutant exposure, and even greater safety for children as the ceramic lined stove is less of a threat to burn on accidental contact. The KCJ program has also increased employment in the stove and informal ceramic industry.

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9. Lessons Learned

The KCJ process has focused attention on the trade-offs between development 'project' and commercial sector management of a technology, and highlights the potential to involve the informal sector. At the same time, it has become clear that there is an important role for cooperative projects where government, NGO, or other organizations provide training, outreach services, publicity, and other logistical support for the local commercial industry.

Implementation Status:

10. Assessment of Possibilities for Replicating the Process Described

The KCJ stove design has now been transferred, or has been the model for locally adapted stove designs or initiatives, in a number of other nations, including Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Sudan, and Uganda (see Table 1). Extension and support for this process, as well as opportunities for exchange of technical information and lessons in the dissemination process between countries and regions with active, or planned, stove programs is also an important area where international support can be of tremendous value.

Table 1:
Estimates of the number of improved stoves disseminated in eastern and southern Africa
(Karekezi and Ranja, 1997).
Country Urban Rural Total
Kenya 600,000 180,000 780,000
Tanzania 54,000 -- 54,000
Uganda 52,000 -- 52,000
Ethiopia 23,000 22,000 45,000
Rwanda* 30,000 -- 30,000
Sudan 27,000 1,400 28,400
Zimbabwe 11,000 10,000 21,000
Burundi* 20,500 -- 20,500
Somalia* 15,400 -- 15,400

* Civil strife has significantly impacted stove programs and/or reduced the number of improved stoves in use.
(--) indicates data not available.

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Implementation and adaptation of the KCJ stove experience between nations is only one component of the potential for program replication. The population of sub-Saharan Africa is largely rural; in Kenya, for example, over 80% of the population lives in rural areas. The KCJ is a charcoal stove, while much of the rural population uses wood. A number of improved stoves that burn wood have been developed, in many cases by the same organizations involved in the KCJ research and dissemination process. These programs focus on more robust, lower cost stoves and have different requirements for the stove walls, the openings for the fuel and for ash removal. Integrating lessons from the charcoal and woodfuel stoves is an important means to support and expand both programs.

Follow-up Strategy:

The issue of health improvements is a major issue: despite 20+ years and 150 cookstove projects, no detailed, scientific studies of the health impacts have been done -- yet. I have a large project in Kenya (staff of 9; 500 people in the study population, health exams every week for everyone ...) that is looking into that question.

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12. International Involvement
What can the international community do to facilitate technology transfer of climate-friendly technologies? The lessons for international involvement that can be drawn from the KCJ case include:

Support for research both within developing nations and for research collaborations between developing nations can lead to significant innovations in the technology and in the entire production and commercialization process.
Extended, stable, program support is invaluable while short-lived, episodic funding can lead to waste and inefficiency and the need for re-learning and duplication of effort. There are significant technical, social, cultural and economic questions that must be addressed even for technologies that may appear to be simple (Kammen and Dove, 1997). At the same time, long-term support is most effective if safeguards against complacency and dependency are instituted from the outset.
Support for stove programs need not take the form of direct subsidies. Partnerships between institutional groups, including NGOs and international organizations, involved in R&D, promotion, and training can be decoupled from commercial production and sales as long as the mechanisms for feedback, cooperation and public to private sector spillover are explicitly addressed.

Anticipated or known documentation endeavors:

KQED-TV San Francisco, California, USA, an affiliate of PBS, produced a program about the stoves, "Green Means: Episode #213.

Web or other relevant links:

WWW: http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~kammen

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Organization Reference People:

Stephen Karekezi
Executive Secretary AFREPREN/FWD FWD House Ole Odume House Foundation for Woodstove Dissemination Kilimani
P. O. Box 30979 Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (254) 2-566032
Fax: (254) 2-561464 & 740524
Email: Skarekezi@form-net.com

Matthew Owens Bellerive Foundation
P. O. Box 42994
Ngong Road
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (254) 2-72074
Fax: (254) 2-726547

Dominic Walubengo
Associate Director Kenya Energy and Environment Organization
P. O. Box 48197
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (254) 2-749747 & 748281
Fax: (254) 2-749382

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References:

Barnes, D. F., Openshaw, K., Smith, K. and van der Plas, R. (1994) What makes people cook with improved biomass stoves? (World Bank Technical Paper No. 242: Energy Series).

Duke, R. D., and Kammen, D. M. (1998) "Evaluating demand-side technology commercialization programs: Integrating experience curves and demand theory", The Energy Journal, in review.

Kammen, D. M. (1995a) "Cookstoves for the developing world," Scientific American, 273, 72 - 75.

Kammen, D. M. (1995b) "From energy efficiency to social utility: Improved cookstoves and the Small is Beautiful model of development," in Energy as an Instrument for Socio-Economic Development, Goldemberg, J. and Johansson, T. B. (eds.) (United Nations Development Programme: New York), 50 - 62.

Karekezi, S. and Ranja, T. (1997) Renewable Energy Technologies in Africa (African Energy Policy Research Network/SEI and Zed Books: London).

Kinyanjui, M. and Minae, S. (1982) "Extension/training programme in renewable energy technology: an implementation strategy," Kenya Renewable Energy Development Project (KREDP: Nairobi, Kenya).

Openshaw, K. (1982) "The development of improved cooking stoves for urban and rural households in Kenya," Report of the Beijer Institute (Beijer Institute/Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: Stockholm, Sweden).

Reddy, A. K. N., Williams, R. H. and Johansson, T. B. (1997) Energy After Rio: Prospects and Challenges (UNDP: New York).

Walubengo, D. (1995) "Commercialization of improved stoves: The case of the Kenya Ceramic Jiko (KCJ)", in Stove Images: A Documentation of Improved and Traditional Stoves in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Westhoff, B. and Germann, D. (eds.), (Commission of the European Communities: Brussels, Belgium).
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The Transporter Solution

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The Kenya Seeds of Change Extension Program

The ‘Transporter’ solution.

Integrating small and medium scale sustainable indigenous energy woodlots into the seed-to-ash cycle that currently provides for over 80% of Kenya’s household energy demands.

Introduction

As predicted over 30 years ago by many different public and private institutions, the national demand for wood fuels has unsustainably risen to new and dangerous peaks alongside rapid population growth. With a national replanting regime that has not sufficed to replace the harvesting rates, the country’s forest cover has become dangerously depleted.
Because of this, the charcoal trade in particular, has come under hostile scrutiny from all sectors. Since the initial bans during the Kenyatta regime, the general policy towards charcoal has been very akin to the proverb of ignoring a great, white (well black) elephant in small room. Today the charcoal sector is a 30 billion shilling plus, untaxed, unregulated, informal energy industry that directly supplies the daily household cooking energy for over 80% of the population.
Project Rational
The basis of this project will be to get the seeds of high yield/quick maturing tree species into the hands of the charcoal producers, at the production point. Replanting will then be a relatively easy, efficient, high yielding endeavor. There is a lot to gain and very little to lose from this. A rapidly renewable household energy resource network will be inflated through the current producer-to-consumer cycle by piggybacking the existing market infrastructure.
The main dictator of charcoal prices from the consumer to the producer is the middleman. Of course along with that power, the middleman/transporter has more to lose than any other player in the charcoal trade, if (when, at current projections) the bottom of the charcoal industry falls through due to lack or inaccessibility of raw materials (acacia trees).
That stated, the middleman is the one who really has the strongest interest in pushing re-afforestation levels in drylands to new heights. (Simply for the noble sake of his/her future business interests)

Strategy

The core approach to this project will be to;

a)Establish a network of middlemen who are heavily involved in the charcoal trade that privately own trucks/lorrys who are willing and able to engage in future resource security projects.
b)Train the driver/loader crew to disseminate and market the relevant information to the landowners where charcoal production is taking place about the ease of acquiring and planting seeds for future energy forests.
c)Sell certified tree seed packets with planting instructions to the fleet operators who in turn will retail woodfuel tree seeds of the acacia variety at the source of charcoal collection (the landowners) for planting. (one bag of charcoal is worth about 400 seeds)
d)KSoC will provide efficient charcoaling training courses to registered landowners so as to provide the highest level of value addition to their current and future woodfuel resource base.

Projected Outcome

A win-win situation for all;

a)Kenya Seeds of Change is provided with at least a few lifetimes of tree seed sales. (There is a lot of charcoal production between the Cape, Dakar and Cairo!)
b)The middle man, the consumer, the landowner and the charcoal maker can continue in a now sustainable energy business with higher savings, efficiency and profit margins.
c)If and when the Government decides to regulate and tax the informal energy sector, it will be a sustainable, accountable industry. (Through the growers registrar)
d)Wide scale national environmental enhancement will be the most dramatic result, increasing the natural regeneration of indigenous savannah forests will lead to higher more widespread levels of the ecological trickledown effects that tree planting so generously provides.

Inputs Required

a)Moral and social support for the project initiator from friends and family
b)Money and time