Contribution project

Better living conditions for poor households

Ivory Coast, Countrywide

ClimatePartner ID: 1331

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Improved cookstovesGet to know the project

Many households in Sub-Saharan Africa rely on 3-stone fires or traditional cookstoves for cooking, consuming a lot of fuel, in particular non-renewable firewood and charcoal. The high biomass consumption leads to accelerated deforestation and land degradation, loss of soil fertility and soils’ reduced ability of water retention as well as releasing greenhouse gas emissions. Further, indoor air pollution through health damaging pollutants while combusting firewood and charcoal can result in severe lung and heart diseases, which especially affect women and children, who mostly carry out cooking activities.

This project is deploying improved cookstoves in urban and peri-urban areas of Côte d’Ivoire. This reduces the dependency on firewood as a fuel for the local community and increases the heat transfer efficiency, which results in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Besides, the project contributes to a better economic and health situation of the families.

75,665 t CO₂Estimated annual emissions reductions

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The project contributes to the the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

Thanks to Jikokoa, cooking is much faster! Its speed saves me valuable time, letting me focus on quality moments with my family, chores, and attending church. The savings on fuel costs make it an affordable choice that benefits both my pocket and lifestyle. With the money saved, I can buy more food for my children and even afford to take a taxi to the market instead of walking. Jikokoa has truly transformed how I cook and live.

Rosine GnamienCookstove user, Dabou, Ivory coast

How improved cookstoves contribute to climate action

According to a statistic from the World Health Organization (WHO, 2024) around a third of the global population still relies on unsafe and environmentally harmful cooking methods. This includes, for example, cooking over open fires or using polluting cooking fuels, such as coal or kerosene. Improved cookstoves tackle this problem by using thermal energy more efficiently.

Depending on the model, an improved cookstove can reduce fuel consumption by up to 70 percent, which significantly saves CO₂ emissions and can lower the pressure on local forests as less firewood needs to be harvested.

Improved cookstove projects allow the distribution of the - often simple - devices made from metal or clay to households, small enterprises or community facilities. Especially for households, this has an impact beyond the CO₂ reduction: better indoor air quality decreases respiratory diseases and families can save time and money as less fuel is needed. Improved cookstoves projects in the ClimatePartner portfolio are registered with international standards.

The project aims to contribute to these United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Climate projects generally fall into one of three groups: carbon reduction, carbon removal, or carbon avoidance. Carbon reduction projects reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced by a specific activity (e.g., improved cookstoves). Carbon removal projects remove carbon from the atmosphere by sequestering it in carbon sinks (e.g., reforestation). Carbon avoidance projects avoid greenhouse gas emissions entering the atmosphere (e.g., protecting forests from deforestation with REDD+ projects).

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Climate projects go through third-party validation and verification. Validation happens early in the project life cycle and ensures that the project design is in line with current processes and requirements. This phase often also involves field visits with on-site interviews and analyses. Auditors are accredited, impartial assessors who have to be approved as a validation and verification body (VVB) by the standards body.

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