<div dir="ltr">Any interest in/information on cooking in Uganda? I had taken some interest in LPG and electricity there ten years ago. <br><br>A press release by CDKN - an Alliance financed by Anglo-Dutch grants as GACC - below. <br><br>Their 2015 report <a href="http://cdkn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Uganda_CC-economics_Final-Report2.pdf" target="_blank">Economic Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change in Uganda</a> asserted, without any evidence or theory, that adoption of more efficient wood/charcoal stoves/kilns, as also LPG and solar cookers, was "critical" (to whom, I wonder) "even without climate change" and recommended immediate ("short-term) allocation of $118 m as "cost of adaptation", whatever that means. <br><br>That's less than $4/capita for Ugandan population reliant on traditional, inefficient cooking. <br><br>They declare, "The cost of adaptation is high, but the cost of inaction is 24-46 times greater." <br><br>Nice slogan. Cooked up numbers. <br>----------------------------------------<br>There's more on stoves in Uganda:<br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1433133/us-envoy-roots-clean-cooking-technologies" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">US envoy roots for clean cooking technologies</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> New Vision, 19 August 2016: Ambassador Malac at the Cookstove Summit:""These initiatives are not just important in improving the health of Ugandans and the environment of the country they are also beneficial to the broader East African Community," Malac said. The cookstoves summit which attracted participants from Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda was convened by International Development Design Summit (IDDS) in partnership with Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves and Uganda National Alliance on Clean Cooking (UNACC)."</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1433954/efforts-ramped-cleaning-cooking" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">Efforts ramped up towards <span class="gmail-il">cleaning</span> cooking</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">, New Vision, 29 August 2016. It mentions a baraza, a word I haven't seen before. <br><br>I do know, though, that Kampala for years had an annual energy efficiency bazaar, started perhaps by a gtz advisor Philippe Simonis (who had been in Rwanda until the genocide; I discovered his books one day, and was told he never returned).</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ESMAP has given a $2.2 m grant to promote stoves: </span><a href="https://www.esmap.org/node/57099" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">ESMAP Brings Innovation to Increase Adoption of <span class="gmail-il">Cleaner</span>, More Efficient Cookstoves in Households across Uganda.</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> 4 July 2016. Says this was in the context of a national biomass energy strategy, which makes good sense. </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ESMAP says, "</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">In preparation for the project, ESMAP conducted </span><em style="font-size:12.0012px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Willingness to Pay and Consumer Acceptance Assessment for Clean Cooking in Uganda</em><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">. The 10-week trial showed that efficient, clean cookstoves on average displaced 60% of traditional cooking resulting in about 25% of fuel savings. The assessment also found that when stove purchase installment plans were offered, the consumers’willingness to pay increased considerably. The results have informed the shortlisting of candidate products for competition under the DCF."<br></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">This too makes sense. They didn't wait for the EPA WBTs and VPTs. The </span><a href="http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/231041468308072320/pdf/SG-PRW-PID-CP-P153679-07-29-2015-1438197666031.pdf" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">Project Identification Document</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> also looks sensible - the objectives are market penetration and avoidance of black carbon emissions. No reduction in premature mortality is promised. </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Just as more efficient woodstoves make sense in the context of a biomass energy strategy - which can be debated; I severely and unfairly criticized an effort in this direction circa 1999 (in part because it advocated biomass power, which I am not convinced of) - certifiably </span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">cleaner</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> cookstoves make sense in the context of an air quality improvement strategy. GACC folks betray zilch enthusiasm for air quality management. WHO ditto, despite the talk. Someone should go to the AWMA. <br></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">There is also some effort at promoting low-cost stoves "</span><a href="http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20160830/NEWS/160839981" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">Marin campaign promotes clean cookstoves for Ugandans</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">" 30 August 2016. Social entrepreneurs from Marin County, CA.</span><br><br>Nikhil<br><br><br><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"><br>---------</span></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-GB"><div>
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