From 11th to 22nd December 2023, Enabel through TREPA project (Transforming Eastern Province through Adaptation to Climate change), is conducting an Improved Cooking Stove (ICS) dissemination campaign in all the 7 districts of Eastern Province that will leave 7000 households with cooking stoves (1000 stoves per district).

The project envisions to provide 100,000 improved cooking stoves to Eastern Province residents by 2027 to help the community reduce pressure on forest resources, thereby preserving the environment.

This ICS dissemination campaign aims at presenting, demonstrating a range of selected stoves that reduce emission in kitchen and well adapted to different types of fuel locally used (wood and crop residue).  

The dissemination campaign brings together TREPA project beneficiaries including district residents and members of the 36 Private Forest Management Units (PFMU), 28 Agroforestry landscapes, 7 Community Biodiversity Sancta (CBS)  to assess the proposed ICS and choose the ones fitting well with their cooking habits. 

To ensure adoption of ICS use, local ICS animators will continue to support the proper use of stoves with adequate preparation and drying of fuelwood, and continuous education of local rural population on the adoption of the stoves. 

TREPA project is a Green Climate Fund (GCF)-funded project (2022-2027) that aims at transforming the Eastern Province through adaptation to climate change. It is being implemented by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Rwanda Forestry Authority (RFA),  World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), World Vision and Cordaid and Enabel. The project promotes different landscape restoration interventions such as tree planting, sustainable forest management for both private and public forests, good agroforestry practices, silvopastoral good practices and clean cooking solutions in Eastern Province of Rwanda.

TREPA project implementation is designed in the way that gives high consideration to gender particularly for women farmers and women-headed households. Specifically, this component of promoting clean cooking technologies targets to impact women by reducing their exposure to unhealthy smokes and reducing time for wood collection.