Arusha Improved Cookstoves Project

This project will involve the distribution of 20,000 energy efficient stoves within a number of wards in Meru District, near Arusha Tanzania. Most families in the area use the traditional 3-stone cooking stove that produces a big fire and consumes large amounts of firewood. This means that a lot of time is spent collecting firewood that would be used otherwise for other developmental activities. The three stone fire also produces a lot of smoke which causes respiratory disease, particularly in women/girls who use it for cooking, but also in young children of both sexes and other people (e.g. the elderly) who spend a lot of time indoors. The use of this inefficient cooking method also has unintentional negative impacts on the environment surrounding local people. The project will be attempting to address these issues by distributing energy efficient stoves to households in Meru District.

Project ID

GS1046

Registry

Gold Standard

Type

Cookstoves · Household & Community

Removal or reduction

Reduction

Methodology

GS TPDDTEC Reduced emissions from cooking and heating – technologies and practices to displace decentralized thermal energy consumption v 1.

Developer

CO2balance UK ltd · 417 projects

Country

Tanzania

First vintage

—

Crediting period

2012-03-01 to 2019-02-28

Estimated yearly credits

75,000

Scale

Small Scale · Standalone

Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 15: Life On Land · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being

Data from

Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry

Coordinates

-3.3183, 36.9150

Source

Gold Standard registry (public API)