CEDESOL’s Mission: Expand the use of solar energy and appropriate technology throughout Bolivia and other countries in South America to: • Promote sustainable development throughout Bolivia and South America • Empower those who live on the margins • Strengthen communities • Reduce CO2 emissions and indoor air pollution through implementation of Ecological Stoves • Increase incomes by reducing the cost of energy • Provide educational opportunities
Secondary Institutional Goals 1. Foment community based micro enterprises especially related to gender and children, to improve the economic conditions of people in specific areas of interest. 2. Provide social and technical assistance to other organizations to help them achieve solid management, while preserving the ecology. 3. Promote the micro businessman, farmer and or craftsman, their families and rural communities to help them better their lives, homes and communities through holistic sustainable activities. 4. Provide advice and training to empower women and children in sustainability.
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Our Focus
CEDESOL continues to implement strategies to reduce indoor air pollution, deforestation and enhance public awareness of the urgency to participate in activities that positively impact climate change. During the peoples Summmit on climate change in Bolivia, CEDESOL presented a side event on "Proven tools to reduce carbon and poverty, a south south exchange" At the summit CEDESOL demonstrated the solar cookers and rocket stoves, representing Solar Household Energy, Solar Cookers International, Solar Cookers International Network and the Kyoto Twist society of Canada. We gave out pamphlets giving PCIA directions as well.
Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas
Generate community awareness of techniques and technologies available for immediate application related to household energy use, their energy costs/benefits, implementation approaches, impacts on health and quality of life, utilizing popular radio programs, television programs, community based participative workshops to involve and train community leaders and participatory alternative educational interventions to stimulate the implementation of improved household energy strategies.
CEDESOL's principals participated in developing an initial market demand and established that improved cook stove programs can be implemented if micro credit is available. CEDESOL is experimenting with mass produced stove models and educating existing micro finance organizations so that they favor the acquisition of these alternative household energy delivery systems. We helped document the ability of improved cookers, highly efficient in terms of reduced greenhouse gas emissions to participate within the framework of clean development, demonstrating their effectiveness in measurable terms. CEDESOL recently established a relationship with the Bolivian Bank FIE to provide micro credit programs to consumers of alternative energy products such as solar cookers and rocket stoves.
CEDESOL is already participating in state of the art technology exchange on a global level related to improved and appropriate design of household energy devices. By establishing good practice standards, educating and interacting with government, civic, community leaders, small businesses and financers we expect to provide industry guidelines as well as needs responsive variations of proven technologies, to be implemented through the business models we are developing. Additionally we work through and with organizations such as Aprovecho Institute, Stoves list, Solar Cookers International and Solar Household Energy to take advantage of technology developments and testing done by others in addition to our in house empirical testing. We are willing to participate in the development of standardized testing and certification procedures.
In 2008 we began a monitoring program based on the Gold Standard methodology for voluntary carbon credits. We developed a one page sales record with which we also collect demographic information, fuel usage and other basic information. We have developed a Kitchen survey to be used for baseline work in our solar cooker and rocket stove projects. some of our projects are monitored by CINER for GTZ
Relevant Publications or Studies
http://www.she-inc.org/art.php?id=51 http://www.bioenergylists.org/en/cedrocketvideoaug27 http://www.bioenergylists.org/en/cedcookingvideoaug28 http://www.bioenergylists.org/en/proof http://www.bioenergylists.org/en/boliviaecostoves http://www.bioenergylists.org/en/cedintegrhc Also in Spanish: http://www.bioenergylists.org/es/node/574
Our Contribution to the Partnership
We would like to share experiences with other and help spread successes in order to put into practice interventions to reduce indoor air pollution and dependence on traditional fuels.
