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Promoting energy saving and efficiency technologies among rural communities in coastal areas of Binh Son District, Quang Ngai Province

Promoting energy conservation and efficiency is one of the major Government's policy for the national sustainable development. However, this policy has not been supported and implemented by industries as well as community. The inefficient and wasteful use of energy is popular among the community living in towns and in rural areas. One example is the current use of the traditional inefficient cookstove of the rural communities. This practice results in indoor air pollution, causing negative health impact to the community, especially women and children, and degradation of forest resources, including firewood. It also creates heavier workload for the women in collecting firewood to meet the demand of energy for cooking in their daily life. Firewood used to be available in their home garden and in the forest nearby. However, it is becoming scare and costly, putting pressures on the limited income of the rural communities.
Alternative sources of energy need to be introduced. Promoting the use of renewable energies, such as waste from animal husbandry development and applying energy saving cookstoves, need to be adopted to meet the demand of energy for cooking of the communities in rural areas. Biogas technology application also promotes the sustainable development of animal husbandry, one of the major economic activities of the community by addressing the problem of localised pollution caused by untreated animal waste.
However, the lack of information on energy efficiency technologies and access to financial support are major barriers for community adoption of energy saving and efficiency technologies and practices. The project is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emission from households by removing these existing barriers to promote the use of appropriate energy efficiency technologies, such as cookstoves and biogas plants, among the rural communities.
The project aims to build the local technical capacity in cookstove and biogas plant production by training local masons, extension workers and motivators. It will develop pilot models to demonstrate the effectiveness and cost/ benefit of cookstoves and biogas plants. Information dissemination, experience sharing and public awareness will be given high priority for wide adoption of cookstoves and biogas plants among the community. Identification and promotion of the link with financial resources that can be accessed by the community will be prioritised for the replication of the pilot models.
The project will be carried out in the three communes of Binh Chau, Binh Thoi and Binh Duong of Binh Son District, Quang Ngai Province, a province in the southern central coast of Vietnam. The project develops the model which has the potential to be largely replicated in other southern central coastal provinces in Vietnam where the community faces the problem of energy demand for cooking.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Women Union of Quang Ngai Province

Country:

Viet nam

Area Of Work:

Climate Change Mitigation

Operational Phase:

Phase 2

Grant Amount:

US$ 28,735.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 9,484.40

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 10,102.31

Project Number:

VIE/00/002

Start Date:

6/2001

End Date:

2/2004

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

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Project Characteristics and Results

Capacity - Building Component

- 01 training sesssion (50 people) for local officers and community representatives on the issue of renewable energy use and efficient savings to adapt to climate change - A contest on environmental issues (forest protection, biodiversity and climate change) and the use of saving measures, energy efficiency and renewable energy for district community Binh Son. - 02 training workshops on technology transfer, engineering and construction use the kitchen for for kitchen construction crews. (There are certificates for the construction crews). - To visit kitchen models 10 times, for 508 cadres and people of neighbor communes. - 2 workshops (100 participants) to exchange experiences and preliminary evaluation of model performance using renewable energy.

Notable Community Participation

- The project focused on community involvement. During the project's formation, projects have examined knowledge, experience and practices of local people and took into consideration the most urgent needs and solutions in order to build effective models for the project activities - To promote the role and responsibilities of community participation as the project owners and absorb the achievements of the project, during implementation, monitoring and evaluation ò the project: + Disseminate information on the projects to the community, with community representatives to participate directly in the conference development, control points, the project completion. + Facilitate community participation in all activities of the project and empower households selected for model development. + Facilitate community participation in surveillance, monitoring, performance evaluation models and learn to apply to his family. + Mobilizing the contribution of community effort in building the model. + Focus on customary practices of communities to develop appropriate training content.

Gender Focus

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Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

People's living conditions in Binh Duong, Binh Thoi Binh Trung is low, income per capita is low, coming mainly from livestock. Fuel costs also significantly rise compared to income: the lowest is 30,000 VND / month / household, the highest is 245,000 VND / month / household, fuel is produced in the surrounding protection area. The rate of respiratory diseases reached 34.3% and eye-relating diseases is (21%).

Project Results

Awareness and understanding of the community about environmental protection, in particular about issues such as climate change, energy efficiency and the need to strengthen usage of saved and recycled types of energy were enhanced through advocacy and education activities.
- One training course to raise awareness about environmental protection for 50 people was conducted. An environmental competition was organized on the occasion of the World Environment Day 5 June. The project coordinated with the local radio broadcasting agency Voice of Binh Son District to publicize project activities and advocate for GEF/SGP. Project activities were covered on Quang Ngai Newspaper, voice of Binh Son District and the provincial television channel.
Demonstration models (5 biogas and 30 energy-saving cooking stoves) were set up in 3 project communes. 2 training courses were conducted to transfer technology on building the two types of stoves for 3 local engineers and for the 45-person construction workers team of the 3 target communes of the project (certificates issued for the construction workers).
10 study visits to the improved stoves and biogas-using stoves models were organized for 508 local government officials and community members of the neighboring communes. Total amount lent during project implementation was VND 217,900,000, which was then repaid 100%. Total number of improved stoves and biogas-using stoves constructed using the project loan were 244 and 112.

Project sustainability

- The project contributed to reduce the need to use firewood and charcoal for cooking, thus prevent forest destruction. It also helped reduce greenhouse gas emission as a result of traditional cooking stoves, contributing to improve women and children?s health, save time, cost and labor for women in cooking, thus promote gender equality. The project strengthened the use of recycled energy from animal waste, which would in the long term contribute to proactive programmes to deal with climate change.
- Quang Ngai Women?s Union has gained a lot of experiences in activities planning, project management, financial reporting. The implementation of the project has created favorable conditions for the Women?s Union to build and enhance relationship with various government levels and relevant government agencies in forest management and environmental protection efforts. At the same time, the project has helped strengthen the organization of the Women?s Union at all levels with more practical and effective activities, thus contributed to enhance the role and reputation of the Union among its members and the community.
- The local engineers and construction workers knew very well the techniques to build the two types of stoves. With the replication of the stove models in the adjacent communes, the construction workers had a new job to earn a living. To date, the construction workers team has not only built stoves for the project targeted communes but also for other communes of other district in the provinces and for localities outside their province border.

Project replication

- In order to make the project sustainable, the project had been designed to reserve VND 157,500,000 for revolving loan component, which accounted for 22.42% of the total project amount and 37.73% of GEF/SGP fund. The repayment rate was 100%.
- 12 additional training courses were conducted for 547 households on how to operate and maintain the stoves. 27 construction workers of the non-project communes were also trained. Community invested their money to build 93 every-cokking stoves and 16 biogas
- The provincial DONRE contributed VND 30 million to the project and continued to provide VND 100 million to support the application of improved stoves and biogas-using stoves in the island district of Ly Son, which helped successfully build 8 biogas-using stoves and 50 improved stoves in the district. In addition, upon visiting the project models in Binh Son District, leaders of some other communal People?s Committee?s have advocated their residents to hire workers to build another 78 biogas-using stoves.

There is no plan for scaling up by GEF funding.The grantee will continue to use the project revolving loan to assist the community to replicate the project models.

There is potential that the local department of science and technology will replicate the project models in their programmes.

There is no linkage with GEF initiative.

There is no clear policy link

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