Efficient Cookstoves
Kenya
Clean cookstoves
Manufacturing and distributing the market-leading Burn ‘Jikokoa’ stove to Kenyan families.
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Project type:
Clean cookstoves
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Project status:
Monitoring
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Methodology:
GS TPDDTEC v2
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Validator:
Carbon Check (India) Private Ltd.
Standards
UN Sustainable Development Goals:
The project manufactures and distributes the market-leading Burn Manufacturing ‘Jikokoa’ stove, enabling Kenyan families to cook using cleaner, more efficient cookstoves, and leading to avoided forest degradation, lower emissions and better community health. Households typically use charcoal in basic cookstoves which is inefficient and hazardous to human health.
Designed for efficiency, this best-in-class cookstove dramatically reduces the amount of charcoal needed to cook a meal, resulting in CO2 savings of 4-5 tonnes per stove per year. In addition, the stove dramatically reduces exposure to dangerous particulate matter in the home, with positive health implications for primary users – who are primarily women. It is the first high spec, affordable cookstove manufactured in Africa and its design has been recognised in the Ashden Sustainability Awards for empowering women with new economic opportunities.
Project developer
BURN
BURN is the largest vertically integrated modern cookstove company in the world, providing world-class R&D, manufacturing, and carbon offset projects across 10 countries in Africa.
Location
The project location is the geographical boundary of the Republic of Kenya, which is divided into 47 counties.
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Our impact
The project reduces Kenyan household’s reliance on charcoal by replacing traditional cooking methods with efficient cookstoves. This ultimately limits the time in which people are exposed to toxic fumes while preparing food and lowers the hours spent per day collecting firewood.
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Number of people benefiting from the project activities
600,000 people
600,000 stoves have been distributed throughout Kenya.
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Local employment opportunities
600 people
More than 600 people are employed by the project, of whom 50 percent are women and the majority are youth
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Women's empowerment
95%
95 percent of the project's beneficiaries are women
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