GIZ HERA Cooking Energy Compendium

Preface

• Why this Compendium
• How to use this Compendium

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 National 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 Improved Cook Stove (ICS) Interventions 

• Introduction - Planning Improved Cook Stoves (ICS) Interventions
• Frame Conditions for Planning Cooking Energy Interventions
• Process of Planning Cooking Energy Interventions
• Content of Planning Cooking Energy Interventions

Designing and Implementing Improved Cookstoves (ICS) Supply Interventions

• Enhancing Production of Improved Cookstoves (ICS)
• Commercialisation of Cookstoves
• Creation of Public Awareness for Improved Cookstoves (ICS)
• User Training - Improved Cookstoves (ICS)
• Financing Mechanisms for Cookstove Dissemination
• Quality Assurance of Improved Cookstoves (ICS)
• Scaling-up Strategies of Improved Cookstoves (ICS)
• Result Based Monitoring of Cookstoves Projects
• Sustainability of Cookstoves

Cooking Energy Technologies and Practices

• Improved Cook Stoves (ICS) – What is it all about?

Cooking with Woodfuels (Firewood and Charcoal)

• Cooking with Woodfuels (Firewood and Charcoal)
• Cooking with Firewood 
• Cooking with Charcoal
• Dual Fuel Stoves
• Firewood Management Techniques
• Testing of Woodfuel Stoves

Cooking with Other Biomass Fuels

• Overview: Cooking with Other Biomass Fuels
• Cooking with Other Solid Biomass Fuels
• Cooking with Liquid Biomass Fuels
• Cooking with Gas from Biomass 

Cooking with Nonbiomass Fuels

• Cooking with Sun
• Cooking with Fossil Fuels

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

Climate Change Related Issues

• Carbon Funding for Cookstoves

Extra / Bonus Tracks

Space Heating

• Heating - Indoor Air Temperature

Glossary

• Glossary - GIZ HERA Cooking Energy Compendium

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