GIZ HERA Cooking Energy Compendium

Basics about Cooking Energy

• Facts on Cooking Energy
• Facts on Cooking Energy and the Millenium Development Goals
• Cooking Energy Initiatives on the International Agenda
• Cooking Energy initiatives on the regional and antional agenda
• <a href="Facts on cooking energy#Cooking_energy_and_focal_areas_of_German_Development_Cooperation">Cooking Energy and focal areas of German Develoment Cooperation</a>
• <a href="Facts on cooking energy#Lessons_learnt_from_improved_cookstove_projects">Lessons learnt from improved cookstove projects </a>
• <a href="Frequently Asked Questions on Cooking Technologies">Frequently Asked Questions</a>

Policy Advice on Cooking Energy

• <a href="Background - Cooking Energy Crisis">Background - Cooking Energy Crisis</a>
• <a href="Cooking Energy Intervention Strategies">Cooking Energy Intervention Strategies</a> 
• <a href="Biomass Energy Strategy (BEST)">Biomass Energy Strategy (BEST)</a>

<a href="Planning improved cook stove interventions">Planning Improved Cook Stove Interventions</a> 

• <a href="Frame Conditions for Planning Cooking Energy Interventions">Frame Conditions for Planning Cooking Energy Interventions</a>
• <a href="Process of Planning Cooking Energy Interventions">Process of Planning Cooking Energy Interventions</a>
• <a href="Content of Planning Cooking Energy Interventions">Content of Planning Cooking Energy Interventions</a>

Designing and Implementing ICS Supply Interventions

• <a href="Enhancing production of ICS">Enhancing Production of ICS</a>
• <a href="Commercialisation of Cookstoves">Commercialisation of Cookstoves</a>
• <a href="Creation of Public Awareness for ICS">Creation of Public Awareness for ICS</a>
• <a href="User Training - ICS">User Training - ICS</a>
• <a href="Financing Mechanisms for Cookstove Dissemination">Financing Mechanisms for Cookstove Dissemination</a>
• <a href="Quality assurance of ICS">Quality Assurance of ICS</a>
• <a href="Scaling-up Strategies of ICS">Scaling-up Strategies of ICS</a>
• <a href="Result Based Monitoring of Cookstove Projects">Result Based Monitoring of Cookstoves Projects</a>
• <a href="Sustainability of cookstoves">Sustainability of Cookstoves</a>

Cooking Energy Technologies and Practices

• <a href="Improved Cook Stoves – What is it all about?">Improved Cook Stoves – What is it all about?</a>

<a href="Cooking with Woodfuels (Firewood and Charcoal)">Cooking with Woodfuels (Firewood and Charcoal)</a>

• <a href="Cooking with firewood">Cooking with Firewood</a> 
• <a href="Cooking with charcoal">Cooking with Charcoal</a>
• <a href="Dual fuel stoves">Dual fuel stoves</a>
• <a href="Firewood management techniques">Firewood management techniques</a>
• <a href="Testing of woodfuel stoves">Testing of Woodfuel Stoves</a>

<a href="Cooking with other Biomass Fuels (dung, residues, alcohol, gas)">Cooking with other Biomass Fuels</a>

• <a href="Cooking with non timber solid biomass fuels">Cooking with Other Solid Biomass Fuels</a>
• <a href="Cooking with liquid biomass fuels">Cooking with Liquid Biomass Fuels</a>  
• <a href="Cooking with gas from biomass">Cooking with Gas from Biomass</a> 

Cooking with Nonbiomass Fuels

• <a href="Cooking with Sun">Cooking with Sun</a>
• <a href="Cooking with fossil fuels">Cooking with Fossil Fuels</a>

General Cooking Practices

• <a href="General Kitchen Management Practices">General Kitchen Management Practices</a>

Designing and Implementing Woodfuel Supply Interventions

• <a href="Policy Challenges in the Woodfuel Sector">Policy Challenges in the Woodfuel Sector</a>
• <a href="Inception Studies for Biomass Energy Supply Opportunities">Inception Studies for Biomass Energy Supply Opportunities</a>
• <a href="Assessing wood fuel supply potentials">Assessing Woodfuel Supply Potentials</a>
• <a href="Woodfuel Production Options">Woodfuel Production Options</a>
• <a href="Charcoal Production">Charcoal Production</a>

Climate Change Related Issues

• <a href="Carbon Funding for cookstoves">Carbon Funding for cookstoves</a>