GIZ HERA Cooking Energy 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 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 Improved Cook Stove Interventions 

• Frame Conditions for Planning Cooking Energy Interventions
• Process of Planning Cooking Energy Interventions
• Content of Planning Cooking Energy Interventions

Designing and Implementing ICS Supply Interventions

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

Cooking Energy Technologies and Practices

• Improved Cook Stoves – What is it all about?

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

• 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