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Overall objectives: - Improve access to modern and affordable energy services and sources for poor rural and peri-urban households in Southern Rwanda while ensuring environmental sustainability (contributing to MDG 7);
- Improve the social and economic well-being of the target groups by providing them an
opportunity to engage in income-generating activities related to affordable energy
services (contributing to MGD 1). Specific objective: Reduce the gap between biomass energy supply and demand for 24,000 poor rural and periurban households in the districts of Nyamagabe, Nyaruguru, Gisagara and Huye by 50% by the year 2010.
Target groups: - 24,000 vulnerable households (120,000 individuals) in the 4 target districts, of which 16,000 are rural households and 8,000, are peri-urban households. Most of these households (HHs) are headed by widows, orphans and people living with HIV/AIDS.
- 100 charcoal producers from the southern province.
- 500 Village Savings and Loan Groups (VSLGs); each VSLG has an average of 15
members - 300 Orphans and Vulnerable Children and Youths (OVCY)
Final beneficiaries: The total population of the four districts, about 1.2 million people, will be the final beneficiaries, benefiting from the project in the long term.
Expected results and related key activities:
ER1: 16,000 rural HHs and 8,000 peri-urban HHs use improved stoves and save at least one ton of biomass per household per annum.
A1.1 Training of trainers (ToTs) of 500 VSLG members and 100 OVCY4 in improved stove
making
A1.2 Training by ToTs of 8,000 vulnerable rural HHs in basic improved stove making
A1.3 Training of 24,000 HHs (rural and peri-urban) in energy-saving cooking techniques
A1.4 Community awareness raising on the use of improved stoves
ER2: 100 charcoal producers save 50% of wood by using improved carbonization
techniques.
A2.1 Conduct a participatory environmental impact assessment on the effects of project
A2.2 Conduct environmental education in the project area:
ER3: 6,000 vulnerable women and 300 OVCY make and sell their products, thus raising their income by at least 40%.
A3.1 Training of 1,000 women5 members of the 500 VSLGs, 100 OVCYs and 100 charcoal
makers in income-generating activities, management and marketing
A3.2 Facilitation of linkages between improved stove makers, charcoal producers and local
banks for credit provision
A3.3 Organizational capacity building of the 500 VSLG, to improve their ability to represent
and advocate for the interests of their members.
01.01.2008 - 01.01.2010
Austrian Development Agency (ADA), European Commission (EC), CARE Österreich
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