The project aims to build 100’000 energy efficient wood cooking stoves (improved Mogogos) in Eritrea. The specific objective is not only to increase the efficiency of the stoves and reduce the amount of fuel wood used by the households (fuel wood being a more and more rare and valuable resource in Eritrea), but to improve the health of women and children by avoiding the inhalation of smoke through the installation of chimneys. The emission reduction per year and stove is 0.6 tCO2 and therefore a total reduction of about 60’000 tCO2/year is expected over a period of ten years. The project specifically respects local cooking traditions by introducing modernised and more energy efficient, but nevertheless traditional, Mogogos which are a crucial asset and the pride of nearly every Eritrean household. It avoids the deployment of culturally not accepted western technology and involves the local people in the deployment and construction. In January 2010 the project had to be suspended due to the political situation in Eritrea.

Eritrean women are building their new efficient mogogo-stove. It is part of the project that the beneficiaries are involved in the process of construction.		The new mogogo has just been completed. It benefits the families in various ways: It uses less fuel wood for cooking, saves CO2 and it reduces the serious health hazards for women and children due to the inhalation of smoke because the new models are equipped with a chimney.