African Indigenous Women Organization Central African Network (AIWO-CAN)
This project aims to promote energy-efficient cooking methods through the introduction and scaling up of
Ameliorated indigenous clay stoves and an innovation of fireless cooking bags. These are considered both energy- and cost-efficient adaptation and resilience strategies for reducing pressure on forests for energy purposes and easing the workload of Indigenous women.
Over 85% of women from the project communities have mastered the production of fireless cooking bags and ameliorated clay stoves. Over 75 fireless cooking bags were produced in these communities.
Over 90% of households in these communities now use the ameliorated clay stoves in their kitchens.
Consequently, this has reduced wood consumption by 75% – 80% in the project communities.
