GIZ HERA Cooking Energy Compendium

This is 'work in progress': Until mid 2011 the compendium will be revised.

Basics about Cooking Energy

• Facts on Cooking Energy
• Cooking Energy and the Millennium Develoment Goals
• Cooking Energy initiatives on the international agenda
• Cooking Energy initiatives on the regional and antional agenda
• Cooking Energy and focal areas of German Develoment Cooperation
• Lessons learnt from improved cookstove projects 
• Frequently Asked Questions

Policy Advice on Cooking Energy

• Background - Cooking Energy Crisis
• Cooking Energy Intervention Strategies 
• Biomass Energy Strategy (BEST)

Planning and Implementing Cooking Energy Interventions

Planning improved cook stove interventions 

• Scoping Cooking Energy Systems
• Inception Studies for ICS opportunities 
• Carbon Funding for cookstoves
  

Designing and implementing ICS Supply Interventions

• Enhancing Production of ICS siehe alter links: (2.2 Production of Woodfuel Stoves und Intervention A: Introduction)
  (Product devolpment, production and marketing systems (incl. trainers)
• Commercialisation of Cookstoves
• Creation of Public Awareness
• User Training
• Financing Mechanisms for Cookstove Dissemination
• Quality Assurance of ICS
• Scaling-up Strategies
• Result Based Monitoring
• Sustainability of Cookstoves

Cooking Energy Technologies and Practices

• Global stove diversity

Cooking with Woodfuels (Firewood and Charcoal)

• Cooking with Firewood 
• Cooking with Charcoal
• Cooking Practices for Woodfuel Users
• Testing of Woodfuel Stoves

Cooking with other Biomass Fuels

• Cooking with Other Solid Biomass Fuels (1. dung 2. unprocessed residues 3. processed fuels)
• Cooking with Liquid Biomass Fuels (1. alcohol fuels methanol, ethanol 2. plant oil)  
• Cooking with Gas from Biomass 

Cooking with Nonbiomass Fuels

• Cooking with Sun
• Cooking with Fossil Fuels (1. kerosin, 2. fossil gas, 3.coal)

General Cooking Practices

• General Kitchen Management Practices

Designing and Implementing Woodfuel Supply Interventions

• Policy Challenges in the Woodfuel Sector
• Inception Studies for Biomass Energy Supply Opportunities
• Assessing Woodfuel Supply Potentials
• Woodfuel Production Options
• Charcoal Production