Installation of High Efficiency Firewood Cookstoves in Sub-Saharan Africa

Majority of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa relies on solid fuels, mainly wood and charcoal for their primary cooking needs. Combined with the inefficient and unsafe traditional cooking methods, this trend accelerates land degradation and causes serious health problems in the region. Traditional cooking methods typically involve burning large amounts of wood in inefficient, open fires. These fires not only pose severe health risks to women and girls as the cooks of the households through the inhalation of smoke and toxic particulates but also, to the surrounding environment through the frequent and unsustainable harvest of large trees. Solid fuel cooking has also adverse impacts on the economy such as avoidable spending on fuels, time losses due to firewood collection, increased cost of health problems, and environmental cost of deforestation. The PoA “Installation of High Efficiency Firewood Cookstoves in Sub-Saharan Africa” will deploy improved cookstoves (ICS) that are substantially more fuel efficient for households. Rural communities in Zambia and Malawi are considered as the target population at the start of the PoA. It is also possible to expand the activities to other countries in the region progressively.

Project ID

GS11142

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 v3.1

Developer

C-Quest Capital Stoves Asia Ltd · 7 projects

Country

Malawi

First vintage

—

Crediting period

2022-01-01 to 2026-12-31

Estimated yearly credits

559,470

Scale

Large Scale · POA

Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 5: Gender Equality · Goal 1: No Poverty · Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth · Goal 4: Quality Education · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 15: Life On Land

Data from

Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry

The registry gives Malawi as the location, so this project is not drawn on the map. It is counted in the country totals.