GS2489 – Efficient cookstoves in Benin and Togo – VPA2 – EcoBénin – Wanrou efficient cookstoves in Atacora/Donga region

The objective of the project is to reduce deforestation and land degradation by improving energy efficiency in rural households in the face of climate change in the Atacora / Donga Departments. The project will be registered as VPA-2 under the PoA “Efficient cookstoves in Benin and Togo".The project area includes more than 10,000 households for a total population of 114,012 inhabitants (2013 Census) in the municipalities of Toucountouna and Ouaké. These are areas with a large rural population mainly using wood-energy with traditional three stones cookstoves.More than 3,500 households will have the Wanrou efficient cookstoves, since this type of efficient cookstove has not encountered any socio-cultural adoption barriers in previous experiments in 58 villages in the department of Atacora. About 300 rural women will be trained and equipped as instructors for the construction of the Wanrou efficient cookstove in their villages and surroundings.The Wanrou efficient cookstoves represent an accessible solution to improve the energy efficiency of cooking and limit the overconsumption of wood-energy, and will gradually replace the traditional three stones cookstoves. By reducing the consumption of non-renewable biomass, the Wanrou efficient cookstoves will also contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions while preserving forests, ecosystems and biodiversity. These efficient cookstoves are a solution currently deployed in the region by Eco-Benin to combat energy poverty and use the potential for the generation of carbon credits. The use of the Wanrou efficient cookstoves with smoke exhaust chimneys also reduces the number of cases of respiratory diseases, reduces the time spent by women and children to collect firewood, and creates local jobs through the construction of the Wanrou efficient coosktoves. In addition to the promotion of the Wanrou stoves the project will deploy at least 8 solar kiosks and foresee 100 Wanrou cookstoves with a thermal electric generator which will allow to charge a mobile phone and/or LED lamp. Credits will only be generated through the deployment of the Wanrou cookstoves and not the solar kiosks and thermos electric generators.

Project ID

GS6008

Registry

Gold Standard

Type

Cookstoves · Household & Community

Removal or reduction

Reduction

Methodology

GS Simplified Methodology for Clean and Efficient Cookstoves v1.

Developer

CO2logic · 27 projects

Country

Benin

First vintage

2016

Crediting period

2016-11-08 to 2026-11-07

Estimated yearly credits

9,317

Scale

Micro Scale · VPA

Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy · Goal 1: No Poverty · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Data from

Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry

Coordinates

10.4960, 1.3780

Source

Gold Standard registry (public API)