Fuel-efficient stoves for the safety of women
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Fuel-efficient stoves for the safety of women

$20000
PROJECT GOAL
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Funds Raised

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Oxfam America

  • THE IMPACT
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1 year impact report

“The stove is good because it’s efficient and saves fuel and cooks faster… Even a small portion of fuel can make your food.”

Impact for girls & women

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs assessment figure, verified by the International Organization of Migration.

Estimated girls & women affected

2,544

Broader impact

This is the population assessment based on records collected the area.

Estimated community members affected

105,8000

Fuel efficient stoves for the safety of women

In 2013, we responded to the needs of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) affected by Jebel Amir Crisis in North Darfur State, a crisis that was ‎triggered following disputes over ownership of a gold mine field. Your support helped fund a project to ‎support targeted household victims of this crisis. The proposal was for distribution of fuel efficient stoves to ‎‎minimize the risks of women engaged in firewood collection. Targeted families were IDPs mainly in ‎Elsireaf, Kebkabiya and Gharra Azawiya in North Darfur and Kalma and Saniya Daliaba in South Darfur. ‎ 

Main activities and achievements included:‎

  1. Held meetings with community leaders; Agreed to target those most in need (for example, women ‎headed households, ‎widows, large households with no assets); Agreed on selection criteria and selection of target ‎‎beneficiaries.
  2. Distributed 1,080 fuel efficient stoves to 400 households in Elsireaf, 200 households in Kebkabiya,‎ ‎400 households in Kalma ‎camp, and 80 in Saniya Delaiba ‎village hosting IDPs.
  3. Organized training for beneficiaries (stove recipients) on how to use the stoves.‎
  4. Monitored the results and gathered feedback.

Get personal

“More people should have these stoves…The stove is good because it’s efficient and saves fuel and cooks faster… Even a small portion of fuel can make your food.” - Hawa Adam Dawelbiat, mother and stove recipient “Comparing the full cost of the stove—materials, transport, training, assembly, and overhead—with the economic benefits,” says Andree Sosler, executive director of the Darfur Stoves Project, “every dollar invested in the stoves results in nearly $20 in the hands of Darfuri women.”

Risks and challenges

  1.  Constant change in beneficiaries’ status due to continuation of prolonged violence and arrival of new displaced people
  2. High demand of stoves compared to limited resources
  3. Access problems created by insecurity/ violence
  4. Continuous decline in funding opportunities year after year

What we’ve learned

The fuel efficient stove is one of the important needs for internally displaced women. It contributes to reducing time and the cost of fuel consumption and reduces chances of women's exposure to violence by reducing the frequency of fetching fuel, wood, and charcoal. The fuel efficient stoves also benefit the environment.

Next steps

The need for these fuel efficient stoves is significant, along with the continuation of this project and more funding. Women and girls will continue to be at risk as they collect fuel wood, often for most of the day and far away from home. Natural fuel sources, wood, and charcoal, are increasingly hard to find and more expensive. What little trees remain around the camps are gradually cleared away from the main urban centers that accommodate big numbers of internally displaced people.‎

Budget

Line Items

Projected budget

Amount spent so far

950 stoves

Project management 

Total

$19,000

$1,000

$20,000

$19,000

$1,000

$20,000

Further reading

Limited access to conflict areas like Darfur make it very difficult for independent media agents to write about the Darfur crisis. The lack of knowledge and publicity around these events and the situation contributes to the ongoing problem and violence against women in the area. For further reading, please see our impact report. Also see stories on our website.

 

90 Day Report

Oxfam America in Sudan: Update on the Darfur stoves project

posted Oct 22, 2013 by Rati Bishnoi

Progress

Oxfam America is thrilled to receive $20,000 in support of our work to provide fuel-efficient stoves to women in the camps of Darfur. This important contribution will help ensure the safety of women and girls in the camps and the conservation of the environment.

Although Oxfam is in receipt of this significant donation, we have not been able to distribute new fuel efficient stoves. Our Sudan office has been burdened with and prioritizing Oxfam’s response to several serious emergencies in the area: conflict-related displacement in Darfur, floods in/near Khartoum, and conflict-related displacement in North and South Kordofan.

Oxfam and partners in Darfur are currently reaching more than 330,000 people in camps and rural areas with programs to provide water, sanitation, hygiene, livelihoods activities (cash grants, assets, and training to start small businesses), and fuel-efficient stoves.

Risks and challenges

There has been widespread demonstrations in Khartoum and other cities in the wake of the government’s move to lift subsidies on fuel and other commodities in September. The protests have been met with violence: There have been more than 200 deaths. The situation is now less violent but still tense, with a large presence of police and national security on the streets of Khartoum, and prices continuing to rise sharply. In Darfur, 45 people were killed in recent fighting between the Misseriya and Salamat tribes in Central Darfur state. The groups have clashed several times since April and the number of internally displaced people has reached 15,300. Many are making their way to areas where Oxfam and partners are operating in South Darfur.

Up Close

In addition, Oxfam is responding to floods in Sudan triggered by heavy rainfall in early August. This intervention is aimed at 10,000 people in North and South Darfur as well as in Khartoum, the latter being the more heavily affected. Our response work has been carried out in the midst of unprecedented social unrest and violence in Sudan’s major cities due to the lifting of fuel subsidies by the government of Sudan.

Next steps

Our staff have remained safe during this time and we continue to monitor the situation closely with them.

 

With wood scarce in Darfur, a new stove promises safety for women, girls, and the conservation of the environment.
 
Why we care:  In the camps of Darfur, women are exposed to attacks on their treks to the countryside to gather firewood. In addition, fuel is expensive causing catastrophic costs for the women and their families. 
 
How we’re solving this:  Providing energy saving metal cookstoves that are designed specifically for use in Darfur and adapted for local cooking traditions. The cookstoves reduce the need for fuel and firewood.
 
Many women in Darfur no longer have homes. They are living in crowded camps for displaced people where the simple stoves on which they cook define their days—days filled with treks for firewood that expose them to attacks, with dangerous hunts for work to earn money for stove fuel, with painful decisions about selling some of the food donors give their families so they can use the cash to buy fuel to cook the rest.
 
Buying fuel in the marketplace is an alternative, but is so expensive that families in refugee camps spend up to one-third of their entire cost of living on fuel wood and routinely skip meals for lack of fuel.
 
All of these choices are grim. But in Darfur, where more than eight years of conflict have set 2.8 million people adrift, this is the reality. Oxfam has launched an initiative to bring a new kind of wood-burning stove into the camps, a stove designed to dramatically reduce the amount of firewood families need each day.
 
The initiative is the latest step in Oxfam's ongoing program to help women in Darfur find cheaper and more efficient ways to cook. The goal is not only to keep them safer by cutting the amount of time they spend searching for wood beyond the safety of the camps, but to reduce the demand for the resource which is leading to severe deforestation in some areas.
 
These stoves are estimated to save $300 per year per stove in fuel costs. The stoves are cutting families’ fuel costs in half. Over the lifetime of a stove, the savings could come to $1770 per family – enough money to support a small family for two years. The stoves ultimately pay for themselves within less than a month. Each stove lasts for five years and is a very good investment with high returns.  
 
In addition, the stoves are specifically designed to meet the cultural and environmental needs of the Darfur camps. The stoves are assembled by camp residents in Darfur, providing much-needed employment for camp residents.
 
Putting only three and a half (3.5) stoves into production is equivalent to taking a car off the road in their reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Conflict and displacement have taken a heavy toll on the fragile land near the camps, stripping it of trees. The stoves program complements Oxfam’s work to restore and protect the natural environment by planting tens of thousands of tree saplings.
 

 


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