Residents in Gobi and steppe regions always face difficulty in making fire with woods and other fuels. What they do is to harvest and destroy saxauls and bushes to make fire for cooking and heating, and for survival as a whole. Animal dung briquettes are only the solution to this problem. Although animal dung is the main fire making means for Gobi people, it is much better to make briquettes from it. It is an energy efficiency measure at the grassroots level. The grant intends to replicate MON/03/12 project outputs by spreading the coal-animal dung mixed briquette making practice of MON/03/12 to Bayanhongor provincial centre to save saxaul, bushes used for fire making in order to prevent/combat desertification and contribute to mitigating climate change effects as well as to support their livelihoods. Briquette making is well underway from summer of 2005.