1.1 Project Summary
In developing countries like Zimbabwe and in much of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, fuelwood is a major source of energy for cooking and heating for people who can?t afford electricity. A 2014 study published in Resources and Environment highlights the severity of this issue in Zimbabwe. The study, which explores firewood consumption patterns, shines light on the severe shortage of electricity in Zimbabwe. It blames a weak infrastructure, erratic supply, maintenance issues and the unaffordable cost of electricity in the face of unemployment and low incomes for contributing to increased use of firewood, which, in turn, is driving deforestation in the country. Approximately 86% of the total population in Zimbabwe still relies primarily on solid fuels. It is an inefficient cooking system which causes indoor air pollution and cooking with traditional stove produces smoke and particles that cause respiratory problems in the long-term.
Traditionally women are responsible for cooking food poses threats to health. Using alternate fuel with efficient stoves can rise fuel efficiency along with reducing health hazards. The programme will facilitate the construction of Jeka Stoves with the goal of ensuring that the 200 households in the targeted areas are equipped with the clean cook stove. The communities will contribute labor and material to be used in the construction of Jeka Stoves such as bricks, pit sand, river sand, anthill soil, metal sheets and mold board plough. Training workshops will be conducted for all Jekesa Pfungwa members, largely comprised of rural women and girls. This project is envisaged to continue as the community members would have gained the necessary knowledge and expertise thus their participation will ensure sustainability.
More than 200 household will be covered by the project within 2 years from FY 2021 to FY 2022. 7500 families use an estimated 37500 kg wood daily and 60% can be saved by the use of the Jeka Stoves. By scaling up the production of the Jeka Stove, JPV e can solve energy crisis, assuring hygiene in rural cooking and save the environment.The organization e seeks financial support to produce the cleaner Jeka Stoves in rural households in the Goromonzi and Chipinge area. Currently, Jekesa Pfungwa (JPV) is implementing clean cooking interventions that improve women and children`s health and wellbeing through socioeconomic, public health and climate mitigation co-benefits in these areas and intends to scale up the intervention to ensure that all households in the targeted areas live cleaner healthier lives through the innovation. More than 60% of the families in the identified rural areas use inefficient traditional cook stoves, such as three-stone fires, which incompletely combust solid fuels which use firewood and charcoal, traditional cook stoves are often inefficient and without a proper smoke ventilation system. Burning of firewood in traditional cook stoves produce high levels of black carbon that result in poor indoor air quality and cause respiratory problems, especially among women and children. These families are unaware that the smoke produced by the traditional stoves causes serious health and environmental risks factor. These rural communities? face an access deficit and primarily dependence on tradition four leg stove fire. Our intervention proposes to change this and will result in the following benefits:
? Less time spent by women on the stove ? the Jeka Stove can heat multiple pots at the same time.
? 50% less consumption of firewood ? saving the areas from deforestation.
? Mitigates climate change as there are significantly less carbon emissions.
? No smoke in the house resulting in better health outcomes for families.
? The fire is not an open hazard therefore makes the home safer for children.
? Affordable and easy to construct using locally available materials.

Figure 1: Two women cooking on the Jeka Stove

1.2 Organizational Background and Capacity to implement the project.
JPV is a women empowerment CSO with an active membership in 8 districts of Zimbabwe that has a collective membership of 5 000 women organized into 300 groups. Over 30 000 women, men and children are beneficiaries of the organization?s projects. JPV?s supreme decision-making body is a board of directors elected from the membership at the Annual General Meetings (AGMs). Over time and in response to the evolving context, and the changing roles of its members within communities, the organization has broadened the mandate from welfarist approaches to contemporary participatory developmental approaches.
The organization is alive to the fact that society is fraught with unequal gender relations perpetuated by a complex interaction of cultural and structural factors. Because of the cultural and structural factors, despite women outnumbering men demographically, their participation in the social, political and economy spheres remains limited. Women?s grassroots mobilization and organization at multiple levels therefore remains a key enabler for women?s empowerment and participation. JPV works to open women?s minds to realities of these barriers and bring women together within their communities to formulate local solutions to local challenges. JPV works closely with poor marginalized women in rural areas especially the illiterate, poor and un-skilled or semi-skilled women, in the so-called lower tier of the informal economy. Increasingly the organization has developed projects that view poverty not as a curse, but rather as an outcome of bad governance and is encouraging the formulation of local level political solutions to poverty and inequality.
JPV works at the grassroots level and has strong links with communities and therefore has demonstrable capacity to implement the proposed interventions. JPV delivers projects which support women to escape violence, overcome discrimination and to be independent. These include information dissemination, leadership, governance and constitutional literacy training or business start-up schemes. JPV plays an important role in influencing authorities to take women's rights seriously, whether through campaigns, training days, or awareness-raising through various platforms. JPV is well placed to do this because their work is rooted in the realities of their communities.
JPV fully understands the context of problems facing women and girls and have developed effective solutions to create and sustain change. JPV supports two critical documents for women?s rights that have followed the UN declaration, i.e. Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), an international bill of rights for women, requires governments to end gender discrimination and affirms women?s rights to health services, including family planning and The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted in 1995 at the UN?s Fourth World Conference in Beijing, was a rallying cry to embed gender equality and women?s rights in every facet of life.
The organization?s values are partnership, participation, networking, good governance and ownership and seek to foster these in all interventions it implements in the communities. The organisation? superordinate goals are:
? Vision - JPV envisions communities that are empowered, sustainable and peaceful.
? Mission ? To build capacity and advocate on behalf of women and girls through training, informing and supporting their community efforts.
The team has extensive project management experience, having implemented several projects with different focal areas such as environmental, governance, sexual reproductive rights, women empowerment, constitutional awareness and market gardening among others. While JPV has successfully invested in women through training, imparting skills and information, they have realized the need to harness this knowledge in order to promote self-reliance and effectively contribute to improved standards of living in communities at household level. In this respect, since the 1980s the organization has been implementing economic empowerment programs in 20 districts rural areas of Zimbabwe.
These include, technical skills training in mushroom production, wire making, dishwasher and floor polish production, soap making, sewing. This has helped to stimulate entrepreneurship development, reduce unemployment rate at the same time assisting women to earn income to sustain their families and thereby reducing poverty. In all these programmes, information dissemination is integral as it relates to relevant social issues affecting women at grassroots level. JPV has successfully trained its membership to be actively engaged and participative in democratic spaces. JPV has bred local female leaders. JPV has also been successful in weaning off its membership and has formed Community Based Organisations in some of its districts. JPV takes pride in participating in national processes such as the constitution making, national peace building processes and being advocates for policies that affect women and girls directly.
JPV has benefited from a UNDP funded project in the past under the Juru Environment Protection Trust (JEPT) and implemented a project that focused on the mitigation of climate change through the promotion of wood saving stoves (Jeka Stoves), woodlots and nurseries, orchards and gulley reclamation.

1.3 Project Objectives and Expected Results
Problem statement
Approximately 3 billion people globally rely on dirty solid fuels like firewood, charcoal to cook and heat their homes. Most households use inefficient stoves, such as traditional three-stone fires, which incompletely combust solid polluting fuels like wood or other biomass releasing toxic substances, resulting in indoor(household) and outdoor air pollution that has widespread health impacts and environmental degradation.(World Bank report 2015) Exposure to Household Air Pollution is now identified as the most important environmental risk factor for ill-health in developing countries; over 4 million people die every year from household air pollution related to cooking with solid biomass fuels, more than HIV/AIDs, tuberculosis, and malaria combine, resulting in approximately 4 million deaths and 110 million disability-adjusted life years worldwide which are a measure of premature death and disability. (WHO report 2011).
Further studies show that clean cooking interventions can reduce the risk of diseases related to household air pollution by creating access to improved cooking technologies, such as cleaner burning fuels or stoves which increase the completeness of solid fuel combustion. For example, a nine-year study showed that replacing biomass with cleaner cook stove for cooking, as well as improving kitchen ventilation, were associated with a reduced risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (WHO report). To reach universal access to clean cooking by 2030, the annual rate of clean cooking access between 2016 and 2030 needs to accelerate to 3 percentage points from an average annual growth rate of 0.5 percentage points that was seen in 2010?16 (Global Alliance for cooking stove report).
Owing to slow progress to date, as well as population growth in the access-deficit countries, the 2030 target is unlikely to be met. If the current trajectory of access gains persists, 2.3 billion of the global population will be without access to clean cooking in 2030 (IEA 2017). Unfortunately, the rapid deployment of clean cooking fuels and technologies has not received adequate attention from policy makers, and it lags behind the rate of electrification. High entry costs for many clean cooking solutions, the lack of consumer awareness of their benefits, financing gaps for producers seeking to enter clean fuel and stove markets, and slow progress in the development of cook stove models and fuel production solutions exacerbate the challenges to uptake of clean cooking solutions (World Bank 2015). It is clear that household air pollution (HAP) is a major modifiable risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among the poor in developing countries. JPV has noted this among its membership and is actively working towards ensuring that all households in the rural areas it serves benefit from this life saving technology that is the Jeka Stove.
Primary Objectives of the proposed project
The project has the potential to support inclusive climate mitigation action that directly or indirectly promotes women?s contributions to emission reductions. The project promotes environmental, social, economic and development co-benefits and taking a gender-sensitive approach. Efficient, effective, and equitable low-carbon development strategies must target women as essential stakeholders, harness their knowledge and potential, and empower them to contribute to poverty reduction, sustainable development, and effective climate change responses.
The specific objectives of the project are:
? To reduce the total percentage of the Goromonzi and Chipinge population?s whose primary reliance is on inefficient traditional stoves and open fires by building capacity of women to construct their own clean cook stove
? to combat deforestation and improve the livelihood of the rural women and girls in the Goromonzi an Chipinge rural areas.

Specific results/ outcomes
Our intervention proposes to change this and will result in the following benefits:
? Less time spent by women at the stove ? the Jeka Stove can heat multiple pots at the same time.
? 50% less consumption of firewood ? saving the areas from deforestation.
? Mitigates climate change as there are significantly less carbon emissions.
? No smoke in the house resulting in better health outcomes for families.
? The fire is not an open hazard therefore makes the home safer for children.
? Affordable and easy to construct using locally available materials.

JPV expects to see a marked positive well-being of rural women through reduction on the burden of fuel wood collection. The Jeka Stove reduces respiratory and eye diseases because it is smoke free. Other outcomes from the project as seen with the implementation of the intervention in other households is that builders of Jeka Stoves, who are mostly women will begin to earn income from building for other members. The owners of Jeka Stoves are empowered by the builders as they are also trained during construction. The Jeka Stove will in the long-term lead to improved gender relations within the home it enables everyone else in the household to assist in preparing family meals, whilst food is also kept warm thereby reducing incidences of domestic violence.

1.4 Description of Project Activities
The main activities under the project can be summarized as:
# Activities per year 2021 2022
1 Conduct needs assessment to determine number of households in Goromonzi and Chipinge currently using traditional stoves and open fires for cooking
2 Consciousness and training regarding energy-saving technologies with community leaders and other key stakeholders
3 Establishment of viable community institutional structure to promote greater participation in the project
4 Sensitizing and awareness raising and behavior change campaign among member households in the Goromonzi and Chipinge as a climate mitigation strategy and health benefits.
5 Train households on the producion of the Jeka Stove
6 Manufacure the Jeka Stove for the Goromonzi and Chipinge rural household population.
7 Conduct studies, supported by field surveys, to understand the impact energy saving cook stove have on public health, air pollution, carbon emission, poverty reduction and changes in livelihoods in the Goromonzi and Chipinge areas
8 Monitor and evaluate the success of the project
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The following log frame will guide implementation of the project:
Objective Activities Indicators for each activity Outputs Outcomes
Objective 1
To reduce the total percentage of the Goromonzi and Chipinge population?s whose primary reliance is on inefficient traditional stoves and open fires by building capacity of women to manufacture their own clean cook stove Activity 1.1 Hold sensitization meetings to raise awareness on alternative energy solutions Baseline: 0
Target: 200 ( 100 women, 50 female youths and 50 Male Youths) Members become aware of alternative energy solutions available on the market


200 Jeka stove start up kits purchased and distributed
200 stoves constructed Increased adoption of alternative and sustainable energy solutions




All the stoves will be put to good use
Activity 1.2 Training of Jeka Stove builders Baseline: 0
Target: 20
Activity 1.3 purchase of Jeka Stove start up kits
Activity 1.4 Distribution of Jeka Stove start up kits to project participants
Baseline: 0
Target: 200 kits
Objective 2
To combat deforestation and improve the livelihood of the rural women and girls in the Goromonzi and Chipinge rural areas. Activity 2.1 Carry out sensitization meetings to raise awareness on climate change and local innovations Baseline: 0
Target: 200 Increased understanding on climate change and mitigation methodologies amongst community members

Every household has established a nursery garden of environmentally friendly trees
Establishment of a household woodlot Communities practice ways to combat land degradation


Increased adoption of the concept of nursery gardens in every household
Increased adoption of the concept of establishment in every household
Activity 2.2 establishment of nursery gardens Baseline: 0
Target: 200
Activity 2.3. Planting of trees Baseline: 0
Target: 200