On 7th June 2011, stakeholders from East Africa met in Nairobi to discuss burning issues in the stove sector. Topics like stove activities in the region and world wide, carbon finance, stove commercialization, stove testing and research were discussed.
A detailed report will be available soon.
GIZ stove projects from 6 African countries (Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Burundi) extended the meeting for two days. They continued with in-depth discussions about the topics mentioned above and topics which are more project specific. This included urgent issues such as testing protocols and testing centers, sustainability, stove branding and marketing.
Both meetings were used as a platform for exchange and showed the high relevance of the topics in the region. A focus on sustainable commercial structures to achieve successful stove dissemination was a common finding amongst the participants of both meetings.
(Picture below shows the GIZ group that extended the meeting).
