Ivakale
Gold Standard · GS3901 · Kenya
About this project
The Kakamega Stove Project aims to disseminate at least 800 fuelwood saving ceramic stoves, so called Upesi-Stoves, in forest adjacent rural communities around Kakamega Forest in Western Kenya. The targeted beneficiaries are all households inside the project boundary which are still using a traditional 3-stone-stove. According to several studies, this traditional 3-stone-stove technology is used by about 80-99% of the households (Habermehl 1994, Myclimate 2011), despite a very low efficiency of about 10%. As a result, huge amounts of firewood are being wasted and the more efficient ceramic stoves have a great potential to reduce the destructive extraction of firewood in Kakamega and its neighboring forests Kisere, Bunyala, Kibiri and Malava, where most of the firewood is collected.
The record
- Project ID
- GS3901
- Registry
- Gold Standard
- Type
- Cookstoves · Household & Community
- Removal or reduction
- Reduction
- Methodology
- GS Simplified Methodology for Clean and Efficient Cookstoves v1.
- Developer
- Ivakale · 1 project
- Country
- Kenya
- First vintage
- 2015
- Crediting period
- 2015-06-01 to 2025-05-31
- Estimated yearly credits
- 2,772
- Scale
- Micro Scale · Standalone
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 15: Life On Land · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy · Goal 1: No Poverty
- Data from
- Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry
Community involvement
Status and timeline
- Registry status
- Gold Standard Certified Project (Active)
- First credits (vintage)
- 2015
- Crediting period
- 2015-06-01 to 2025-05-31
- Credits issued
- 8,576 (retired 3,846)
Credits by vintage year
Issued and retired, tonnes CO₂-equivalent
Location
- Coordinates
- 0.2833, 34.7500
- Source
- Gold Standard registry (public API)
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