Events:

1. Orientation meeting on

Orientation meeting on Improved Cooking Stove Program

a) Improved Cooking Stove Program

(Benefit of program, Technical issues, Technology, financial viability, program management, promotion process                 and challenges & problems)

B) “Strategy of organizational sustainability”

C) Process of implementing social justice through local involvement

2. Field visit:

A) Visit social justice committee

B) Visit villages to see Improved Cooking Stove Program for practical understanding

3. Ending Technical session to clarify issues that rose from field visit

4. Follow up join meeting with FH supported Sibgonj Community Base Organization leaders

A) Introduce idea of Improved Cooking Stove

B) Share experience of Ujjibitopran welfare program

Outcome:

Better understanding on Improved Cooking Stove, social justice, program for local development and organizational sustainability under a long term plan.

A) Team members of Ujjibitopran express their interest to introduce and integrate these local development ideas in               its program in future.

B) It may organize ICS program for community development and also it may raise income for the organization from              carbon credit fund.

C) WDP showed interest to give technical support to Ujjibitopran especially in training.

Possible follow up steps:

A) ICS Program may be raise in Executive Committee of Ujjibitopran Society to consider

B) Organize training on ICS to introduce this program in possible area under a technical partnership with WDP.

C) Campaign for local fund for ICS program

D) Think and try how fund of carbon credit can be mobilized to promote this program as well as to raise fund for the              organization.

The visiting team was encouraged from the feed backs of villagers, WDP staffs and local committee leaders regarding social justice, local development, organizational sustainability and ICS program and likes to see the progress of Ujjibitpran in this regard in future.

ICS program description:

In the briefing

1. Numbers of staffs were trained for the program initially.

2. Start with village demonstration to motivate for ICS

3. Staffs were organized with responsibility for specific village.

4. After getting orders for ICS, staff assess household cooking nature to identify requirement of oven size and                            numbers in each unit.

5. Household will committed to pay all expense for the cooking stove in installment basis by signing a contact.

6. Each staff was employed with monthly target of 20 to 25 depending on geographical condition..

7. Employment contact payment was on the basis of per Cooking Stove at the rate Tk 200 to 250.

8. Organization supply only casting net of different sizes, 6′ long and 3″ RCC pipe soil connecting pipe and top cover              on pipe at the cost of about Tk 300/=(65×2+140+15×2)

9. After having well covered space and collecting required amount of sticky soil by the household, responsible                        staffs make a whole on the ground and make a primary structure of a cooking stove within 2 hours per stove.

Next day staff will make the stove shape as designed and put net on oven and set pipe on carbon chamber. 2 or 3                days were required to finish stove.

10. Staff also trains women how to use and maintain the stove.

11. Staffs need to monitor bi-weekly basis for at least 3 month use of all stove under her/his responsibility to ensure               proper use of those stoves.

Improved Stove

Impact of the program:

There was a village named Mamudpur at Jumarbari Union under Shaghat Upozila in Gaibanda district that 100% households were using Improved Cooking Stoves and all together 1742 households of a union were using ICS. It was estimated that use 1742 households will safe at least 20000 mature trees of the areas if they safe 3.5 kg wood per day. It was a great contribution to environment reducing carbon production and increasing oxygen in air. Villagers experiences that use of ICS was not only safe 50% fuel but also safe time of women’s cooking period and collecting wood, it was health friendly, safe trees and forest a lot and so on. These extra time and money could be wisely used for their family and community development bringing lot of benefits to them.

Future Program Possibility:

Ujjibitopran Society got some donor assurance to introduce this Improved Cooking Stove program in some locations in remote area in Borishal and Foridpur. We can design a package proposal for the potential donors to finance this program. Using productive use of traditional donation money or local fund could be mobilized for poorer households of community to support these programs to safe wasting valuable money and time. Thus providing or using only about Tk 500 to Tk 700 per family may safe about at least Tk 5000 to 10000 per year and onward. Institutional donation from carbon credit fund will be available when the organization will be able manage a minimum scale of ICS program. There is also possibility of partnership will local organization or Community Base organization to extend this program in wider areas in future. Thus it may be entry way to afford great contribution to our environment as well as to serve to foster community development. The visiting team was encouraged from the feed backs of villagers, WDP staffs and local committee leaders regarding social justice, local development, organizational sustainability and ICS program and likes to see the progress of Ujjibitpran in this regard in future. Please review this and send your suggestions for this proposed new program.