Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development (CEIHD)
CURRENT PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS
Current Projects
- Developing the Market for Improved Woodstoves in Uganda
- Promotion of Technology Innovation and Dissemination for High-Efficiency, Low-Emissions Biomass Household Stoves in China and Abroad
- Indoor Air Pollution Monitoring for EnterpriseWorks Ghana's Improved Cooking Stove Programs
- Monitoring and Evaluation Strategies for Household Energy Practitioners
Publications
- Evaluating Improved Biomass Stoves in Central America
- China Household Energy and Health Overview
- China Biomass Stove Competition: A Summary Review of Pertinent Background Information Relating to Stove Standards for Performance and Emissions, Testing Methodologies, and Enterprise Innovation | pdf.
- Indoor Air Pollution Monitoring in Ghana | pdf.
Developing the Market for Improved Woodstoves in Uganda
In Uganda, much of the cooking is done by burning wood or charcoal in traditional stoves or fireplaces, exposing women and children to harmful gases and smoke. CEIHD is currently working with Aprovecho and the Urban Community Development Association (UCODEA) in Kampala to facilitate the development of a sustainable stove enterprise that can meet the immediate need for an efficient, low-emissions household wood stove in Uganda. The article, "Indoor Pollution a Silent Threat," featured in Uganda's Daily Monitor, highlights the disastrous effects of indoor air pollution.
This project focuses on adapting and commercializing the rocket stove (http://www.aprovecho.net/at/atindex.htm), which best meets UCODEA’s design criteria for a stove that is efficient, affordable to local families, reliable with low maintenance requirements, reproducible, safe, portable and able to cook local foods. We are currently beta-testing a version of the rocket stove and building the necessary infrastructure to produce and distribute it profitably.
We are also working with local communities to understand cooking perceptions and needs and to build awareness about the benefits of improved stoves. Because CEIHD’s long-term goal is to reduce illness and deaths due to indoor air pollution, CEIHD plans to monitor the performance of the rocket stove and evaluate how well an efficient chimney-less stove can improve air quality and living conditions for Ugandans.
Promotion of Technology Innovation and Dissemination for High-Efficiency, Low-Emissions Biomass Household Stoves in China and Abroad
CEIHD is collaborating with the China Association of Renewable Energy Industry (CAREI), Shell China, and the Shell Foundation, to create a prize scheme that will identity and reward the most promising high-efficiency, low-emissions biomass stove technologies and the best enterprises innovating in this field. These winning stoves will meet a set of impartial and transparent criteria drafted by impartial experts working with CAREI and CEIHD. The project partners will help to strengthen the capacity of the selected enterprises as needed by providing management training, access to capital, and other business development support. After helping to strengthen the enterprises in China, CEIHD will focus on identifying export opportunities for these products and promote them to fill appropriate market needs in developing countries.
Indoor Air Pollution Monitoring for EnterpriseWorks Ghana’s Improved Cooking Stove Programs
In an effort to address the problem of indoor air pollution (IAP) in Ghana, EnterpriseWorks Ghana (EWG) is implementing a project called “Clean Energy for Household Cooking in Ghana.” A workshop on IAP monitoring conducted in Accra, Ghana, and led by Dr. David Pennise of CEIHD focused on training participants on how to organize an IAP study, how to use the IAP monitoring equipment, and how to manage and analyze the data. Following the workshop, Dr. Pennise worked with EnterpriseWorks Ghana to help begin their baseline IAP sampling survey in households cooking with the traditional open fire. After improved wood-burning stoves are introduced into these same households, another IAP survey will be performed and compared to the baseline IAP survey in order to assess the effectiveness of the new stoves.
Monitoring and Evaluation Strategies for Household Energy Practitioners
CEIHD works with several household energy projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America to provide technical support for monitoring and evaluation activities. Services include training in monitoring techniques, assistance with monitoring plan development, on-site sampling support, and remote data-analysis consulting. One important M&E tool distributed by CEIHD is the UCB Particle Monitor, which offers a relatively simple and cost-effective way to monitor indoor air pollution concentrations and exposures in the field. For additional information about the UCB Particle Monitor, please click here.
Evaluating Improved Biomass Stoves in Central America
CEIHD worked with the Nicaraguan non-governmental organization, Proleña, on a project to evaluate the health benefits of its Ecostove, an efficient and low-emissions wood cookstove. Preliminary results from our World Bank-funded study show that the affordable Ecostove reduces emissions by approximately 80 to 90% (depending on the stove model). CEIHD also supports Proleña's efforts to expand the availability of the EcoStove in Nicaragua and neighboring countries. To view entire report, please click here.
China Household Energy and Health Overview
Under the auspices of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air, CEIHD worked with Winrock International to compile household energy, indoor air pollution, and health overviews of China. The report includes rural fuel use patters in China today and highlights the achievements of the Chinese National Improved Stoves Program which was active between 1982 and 1992. To view entire report, please click here.
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