Type	Voluntary commitment by other stakeholders
Organisation	SMEFUNDS GEBIOFUELS
Scope	Global
Themes	Addressing systemic issues; Agriculture and food security; Cross-cutting areas; Domestic and international private business and finance; Environment; International public finance; International trade as an engine for development; Science, technology, innovation and capacity building; Small and medium enterprises; jobs

Description

Over 95,000 people, mainly women and children, die every year from indoor air pollution in Nigeria. Respiratory problems, skin cancer, eye problems, food poisoning, and threats to women’s safety are results from overexposure to unhealthy cooking fuels. Despite the enormous wealth in energy resources, the vast majority of the Nigerian population are not only extremely poor economically, but energy poor as well. An estimated 84% of households lack access to quality cooking and lighting fuels. This situation compels families to depend wholly on inferior and health-damaging wood and kerosene fuel. With these overwhelming indicators it is clear that the population in Nigeria are desperate for clean cooking energy.

Without a clean cookstove, desperately poor families must either buy expensive charcoal or kerosene or walk for miles seeking scarce firewood. Nigeria has one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, at over 3.3% per year. In the evenings, women can be seen returning home after a long day’s drudgery of gathering, carrying enormous bundles of fuel wood on their head. In the urban centres, up to 9% of households depend on kerosene to supplement fuel wood, about 1% depends on LPG. The use of kerosene has been plagued by a corrupt distribution system, long queues, poor quality and condensate–laden kerosene that burns with high emissions of soot and particulate matter. Contaminated kerosene has continued to claim lives in Nigeria. SMEFunds and GEB will provide a cleaner, safer and sustainable alternative to the current cooking fuel situation

Partners

SE4ALL
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC)
African Development Bank
Deutsche Bank
Shell Foundation
PANGEA
CTI-PFAN
CLIMATE AND CLEAN AIR COALITION
IFC
USAID
UNDP
UNGC
GEF

Targets

ETHANOL GEL CLEAN COOKSTOVES TARGETS 1,000,000 HOUSEHOLDS BY 2017

Indicators

a. Minimize the environmental impact, through an activity which wastes are all reused, and using a fuel that does not emit pollutants;
b. Improve the quality of health of local households to be served;
c. Decrease the deforestation caused by users of the wood stoves;
d. Reducing the levels of domestic pollution, by encouraging the use of the biofuel stoves, replacing the traditional wood-fired stoves;
e. Reducing the impacts of the rural exodus in the urban areas;
f. Generating work and income in farmer’s dependants and women;
g. Improving self-esteem of people, for social inclusion;
h. Adopt other domestic uses for ethanol, such as energy generators, tractors, etc.
i. Recovering of degraded areas by the use of organic fertilizer;
j. The reduction in the use of fossil fuels.

Resources

Through Partnership, Collaboration and Efforts, More than $2m (US) will be committed in the next 12 Months to Increase both Ethanol Gel Supply and Improve effective Distribution.

Timeframe

October 2015 – December 2017