[Stoves] Haiti: GACC 4

[Traveller]

Paul:

Seems to me GACC is stuck in the mindset that solid fuels are evil and that
LPG is the answer (grudgingly acknowledging that some poor folks still use
charcoal when better stoves are deployed).

First, I read GACC's HAITI AND THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN
COOKSTOVESFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
<https://cleancookstoves.org/binary-data/RESOURCE/file/000/000/476-1.pdf> Paul
had referred us to but I hadn't looked. It says, "In partnership with the
Government of Canada, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (Alliance)
will .. design a comprehensive, costed national five-year integrated clean
cooking program in Haiti. ..Global Affairs Canada has indicated a strong
interest in supporting implementation of the plan upon completion of the
program."

I find this confusing, to say the least. GACC is to design a Five Year
Program. And Canada might be interested in supporting implementation of
"the plan" upon "completion of the program"??

Did somebody at GACC just forget to edit, or nobody knows the difference
between a plan and a program, or design, implementation and completion?

Maybe I am splitting hairs but this confusion persists. Under "WHAT ARE THE
ANTICIPATED GOALS OF THE CLEAN COOKING ACTION PLAN?", I see "The program is
expected to lead .."

About design "phase" - "Toward this goal, the Alliance will undertake
activities over seven months that will provide the data needed to design
and execute a national action program for building a clean and efficient
cookstoves and fuels market in Haiti. The Alliance anticipates that the
plan..."

Clean and efficient market. Every academic economist's dream. Cookstoves
and fuels can be ... whatever, so long as LPG is involved.

***

Looks like the plan is the program, the program is the plan.

Or the program is to party at Hotel Decameron Indigo
<https://www.decameron.com/en/otr-destinations/haiti/arcadins-coast/royal-decameron-indigo-beach-resort-spa>
with
GACC Ambassador Chef Jose Andres - head of a $100+ m a year restaurant
business - who is also a GACC partner in Haiti on a LPG project
<https://www.worldcentralkitchen.org/unsafe-cooking-fuels/>via World
Central Kitchen <https://www.worldcentralkitchen.org/>. WCK has on its
board a Haitian construction contractor who says, "Whenever José is in
town, I know I’m going to do two things: drink too much and spend a lot of
money.” (José Andrés thinks food can fix the world, starting in Haiti
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/jose-andres-thinks-food-can-fix-the-world-starting-in-haiti/2014/06/05/8e4de760-d0cb-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html>
 Washington Post, 6 June 2014)

WCK is run out of the World Wildlife Building, where Barack Obama is next
going to have an office. The next GACC cookout will probably be on the roof
of that building.

WCK is a tame affair (around $1.5 million over five years, I think)
compared to GACC; it pays its CEO Brian McNair but $125,000, spends about
that much on fund-raising, and has on its leadership, advisory board and
core team people who seem to know something about food, cooking, teaching,
community organization and such.

And apart from GACC, its other partners in Haiti include Switch Haiti, "a
Haitian company that is focused on a penetration model for LPG as a source
of energy for cooking in Haiti."

GACC says of WCK work in Haiti "Over the course of two years, WCK has
converted 100 schools to clean-burning, LPG cookstoves, which significantly
decrease the amount of smoke that cooks inhale on the job each day. Other
schools have been converted to improved cooking stoves, *which still use
charcoal*, but a far smaller amount." (Emphasis added).

Hence my opening statement.

Nikhil
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