Operational Themes -
Clean Energy Production
Technical card
Location : Morocco
Dates : 2008-2013
Technical and institutional partners : Mohamed 6 Fondation for environmental conservation, GERERE, Planète Bois, ARDB (Rif association for local and sustainable
development of Bellota) and ADB Chefchaouen
Financial partners : AFD (French Agency for Development), Albert 2 Prince of Monaco Foundation, ADEME, MACIF Foundation, POWEO Foundation, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, Small Grants Programme of the Fund for Global, Environment Facility (SGP-GEF / PNUD) and Veolia Foundation
Beneficiaries :
- Women and young girls from rural areas
- Local craftsmen and gas oven producers, local energy appliances suppliers
Description of action
In Morocco, the firewood is used to 90% by rural households for their daily activities. Very popular, the traditional appliances (roman cook stove) are also known for their poor energetic yield and for the noxious fumes they release. The lack of a sustainable management of the wood-energy resource leads to a loss of 31,000 ha of wooded fields.
GERES is working to improve the quality of stoves by making them more efficient and less energy-consuming and also adapted to populations financial possibilities. Issues and impacts of the project :
- Environmental : forest conservation, wood fuel consumption reduction, CO2 emission reduction
- Energy : 1250 gas ovens and 500 high energy efficient multifunctional cookers will be brought to people’s homes, 3 commercial ovens brought in the country
- Social : women’s life conditions improvement, no more women’s exposure to indoor air pollution
- Information and raising awareness network : biomass energy training workshops, communication dissemination
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