COOK STOVE CHALLENGE; TANZANIA
PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED
Cook stoves.
Learn more about the Cook Stove Challenge and how clean cook stoves reduce health and safety risks, lower fuel expenses, and help reduce poverty.
DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION
To transition families to LPG stoves from firewood and charcoal, the Community Technology Worker (CTW) Program trains local experts in Shirati, Tanzania to teach families how to use the gas stove, check in regularly, and provide any technical or maintenance support to the households.
A Community Technology Worker teaches the family how to use the stove safely, leaves resources and their phone number in case there are issues, and revisits to check in. The Community Technology Worker thus provides a three-fold objective to help transition the family: to help with any technical issues, to remind the family to be saving up for the next cylinder, and to reinforce and encourage the adoption of gas.
The program buys the initial stove, pays the CTW, and empowers the families to refill on their own by changing their saving mechanisms around cooking fuel. The CTW model stands out as it relies on community-based empowerment to reach households. This intervention of CTW is about people in the community supporting their community. Every barrier the community faces, the CTWs address it, listen, and adapt.
PILOT AND SCALING GOALS
Reach 500 during Step-Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial with 1 LPG stove per family
Hire and onboard 15 Community Technology Workers
Track LPG adoption metrics through a yearlong study
FOUNDING TEAM
Annelise Gill-Wiehl - Co-Founder
Fred Chacha - Co-Founder
Nayome Aguttu- Co-Founder
Mary Frances - Co-Founder