The project activity aims at distributing 41,472 improved cookstoves that are more efficient and use less wood for household cooking and heating than traditional stoves. The new stoves are three times as efficienct as the three stone and unimproved cook-stoves used prior to the project activity. This results from an improved combustion and heat transfer, raising the cooking pot to the hottest point above the flame, and improved heat retention. To make sure efficiency is maximised, the project promotes using less and dry firewood, a pot lid and soaking legumes before cooking. The stoves called "Chitetezo Mbaula" are manufactured locally from local materials, resulting in higher income generation and acquisition of new skills for local people.

Ancillary benefits include reduced smoke during cooking, which reduces exposure to health damaging pollutants and reduced time and effort procuring woodfuel. The stoves are attractive to end-users and can result in quicker cooking times. The entire Programme of Activities (PoA) has been growing for 10 years and so far reached over 2.5 million people.