Turbo Jiko for Mama SAMAKI
A world that uses renewable, affordable and safe way of cooking and giving opportunity to the local youth and young women to create enterprises out of the safe cooking technology to develop income and create employment. This will not only improve accessibility of the technology by the local people but also improve the environment and livelihoods.
About You
About You
First Name
Zablon
Last Name
Wagalla
Facebook Profile
About Your Organization
Organization Name
Trees for Clean Energy Network
Organization Website
Organization Phone
+254-733961330
Organization Address
Organization Country
Kenya, NY
Country where this project is creating social impact
Kenya, NY
Is your organization a
Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
1‐5 years
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Innovation
Entry Form title
Turbo Jiko for Mama SAMAKI
What change do you want to bring to the world?
A world that uses renewable, affordable and safe way of cooking and giving opportunity to the local youth and young women to create enterprises out of the safe cooking technology to develop income and create employment. This will not only improve accessibility of the technology by the local people but also improve the environment and livelihoods.
What are the primary activities of your project?
Trees for Clean Energy Network (TCEN) designs the Turbo Jiko, trains a group of young women and youth on how to fabricate the Jiko, organize community barazas to educate women and fisher folks on how to use the Jiko, distributes tree seedlings during the barazas, organize women into clusters and help them form a revolving fund scheme to help individual women and household acquire the Turbo Jiko which is distributed by TCEN through the cluster leadership to the households by instalments. This is done to enable all households in Suba district Homabay country get the turbo jiko since paying by instalments reduces the burden of raising the price at once.TCEN also empower the youth and young women to develop enterprises of distributing the Jiko in their villages and initiating Tree Nurseries. TCEN also promote the planting of trees in the rocky islands of Lake Victoria since deforestation has largely taken place.
What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
Cooking and frying of fish along the lake-shore is a common activity for mama Samaki in the lake shore. Every morning many women fry fish mainly to sell and also for food. Housing in the highlands of lake Victoria is very poor and people live in one roomed iron walled and roofed shanties that poses a lot of danger to the women and children when cooking is done indoors. Firewood and charcoal is the main culprit leading to complete deforestation and also many children and women contact respiratory diseases. Turbo Jiko eliminates deforestation and also respiratory diseases as well as protecting the environment. Turbo Jiko is a smokeless biomass Cooker. It uses biomass residues such as twigs, straw, coconut husks and maize cobs. It uses neither firewood nor charcoal. It is manufactured locally by women and youth artisans trained by TCEN since the design is very easy. Turbo Jiko increases the combustion efficiency by 300% compared to charcoal stoves. How it Works: The air between the two cylinders heats up, rises upward and is inserted into the flames, increasing the temperature to 700°C. This vaporizes all the smoke particles and increases the combustion efficiency three-fold.
What stage is your project in?
Operating for 1‐5 years
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
Lake Victoria has some of the richest fishing grounds in Kenya, yet Suba district, which borders the lake in the far west of Kenya, remains one of the poorest districts in the country. Housing in the highlands of lake Victoria and at the shores of lake is very poor and people live in one roomed iron walled and roofed shanties that poses a lot of danger to the women and children when cooking is done indoors. Firewood and charcoal is the main culprit leading to complete deforestation, many children and women contact respiratory diseases since the Kerosene stoves and firewood used as a source of energy emit a lot of smoke. Women initiate enterprises that preserve fish through drying and frying then selling to the neighborhood. This activity needs a lot of energy for cooking. Deforestation in Lake Victoria Islands and the surrounding Suba District has therefore occurred. There is green house gas emission to the atmosphere causing climate change; the effect of this is felt in Suba District and there is persistent drought affecting crop production thus threatening the food security situation within the district.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
Zablon Wagalla founded Trees for Clean Energy Network (TCEN) to bring together the community to find solutions to the most common and pressing problem facing them. The immediate need was to find a better and safer way of cooking. TCEN initiated a project “Turbo Jiko for Mama Samaki” a project that designs a smokeless biomass cooker. Turbo Jiko provides household energy used to fry foods and boil water. The Jiko uses biomass residues such as twigs, straw and maize cobs. TCEN then trains juakali artisans in fabrication, distributes the Jikos to the women and organize beach barazas for the fisher folks training them on usage, importance of environmental conservation, sustainable agriculture, and entrepreneurship encouraging them to plant trees on the Islands and beaches.
Currently TCEN has covered 2650 households, 8,000 trees have been planted, 460 women and youths have been trained on entrepreneurship hence improving their livelihoods. CO2 emissions have been greatly reduced including deforestation. Jobs have been created for the Juakali artisans fabricating the Jikos. Income increased since the money that would have been used to buy charcoal is saved. The cost of the Turbo Jiko is Kshs 1450 per piece approximately US $ 20. TCEN adopted market based approach that considers poor households by allowing families to pay for Jikos by installments to those who cannot afford $ 20 at once. The Cluster women groups initiated by TCEN acts like security for individual households that pay by installments.
Social Impact
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Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
Currently TCEN has covered 2650 households, 8,000 trees have been planted, 460 women and youths have been trained on entrepreneurship hence improving their livelihoods. Jobs have been created for the Juakali artisans fabricating the Jikos. Income increased since the money that would have been used to buy charcoal is saved. The successes have been measured by data picked from clusters monthly progress reports counting the number of households using Turbo Jiko, the number of trees planted per cluster and also the number of people trained on Turbo Jiko fabrication. The reports also indicate the number of clusters/groups formed, the number of enterprises developed. There is also monthly impact assessment survey data that shows how food security situation has improved within the village, how incomes have improved, how many households are effectively using turbo jiko as the sole source of cooking energy to gauge the amount of carbon that could be possibly be sequested back to the soil.
How many people have been impacted by your project?
1,001- 10,000
How many people could be impacted by your project in the next three years?
More than 10,000
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
The Use and demand of Turbo Jiko is beyond Suba district since the Jiko cooks faster and the material used is a waste product that is available freely to the women and households. To meet this demand from neighbouring communities, TCEN is looking into strategies of up scaling to cover other regions of Homabay country. Through the use of a network of community based organizations, women groups and Youth Groups, TCEN will carry on with establishing fabrication centres in other villages training youth and women how to use the locally available material to fabricate the jiko, function, environmental conservation, sustainable agriculture, and entrepreneurship encouraging them to plant trees on bare lands.
Sustainability
What barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
Internal learning mechanism establishment and a gradual scaling-up of implementation is an internal risk that should be undertaken by ensuring the programme follows the learning mechanism structured in the programme design. Another risk is lack of appropriate attention provided to further develop appropriate technologies and management process; this will be overcome by ensuring the required Technical Assistance earmarked in the programme is timely obtained. Community participation, local organizations participation and other stakeholder’s participation could a hindrance but the project will ensure advocacy is done at the community, and community organizations, village volunteers are supported by the programme to identify the hardcore poor to be beneficiaries of the project. Funding can also be a major hindrance but TCEN is developing partnerships with Foundations, friends and NGO’s that can fund the project.
Tell us about your partnerships
Trees for Clean Energy Network has developed partnership with community based organizations as facilitators of implementation, local government providing space for fabrication centres, national government through the ministry of youth affairs providing support for youth oriented programmes. We have also developed partnership with donors who have supported our project as we work towards sustainability, the project has received funding from Corfu Foundation, International Youth Foundation and we have also received Starbucks innovations funding through International Youth Foundation. We share our progress reports with our partners and major stakeholders to help us improve our strategies.
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
$10,001‐50,000
Explain your selections
Customers who are our beneficiaries are major supporters of our project. Turbo Jiko market price is $ 20; TCEN enables the beneficiaries to acquire the Jiko through instalments since most of the households cannot afford $ 20 at once. The dollar 20 covers the cost of fabrication, material and also a little profit that is ploughed back to take care of distribution and community out reach. Foundations and NGO’s are our donors that support training activities of the project, community mobilization and also the up scaling the idea to other deserving villages. The initiation of the project was supported with a grant from International Youth Foundation.
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
The project will disseminate programme activities and findings through workshop, seminars and a mutual lesson learning mechanism established with the stakeholders. The project will continue with its present practice of information dissemination and cooperation with the government and other development partners to strengthen its work and out reach to the community. The project will also employ qualified full time staffs which is currently lacking upon getting funding to ensure smooth implementation, up scaling and marketing of the organization.
Challenges
Which barriers to employment does your innovation address?
Please select up to three in order of relevancy to your project.
PRIMARY
Underemployment
SECONDARY
Lack of skills/training
TERTIARY
Lack of visibility and investment
Please describe how your innovation specifically tackles the barriers listed above.
The project will create employment for many youths and women who are involved in fabrication and distribution of the Jiko to the population. The training that are given to the women and Youth in fabrication, entrepreneurship and environmental conservation gives them life skills that they can use to earn a living for a lifetime. Organizing women and youth into cluster groups gives them an insight and urge to save and a visibility of investing in their future.
Are you trying to scale your organization or initiative?
If yes, please check up to three potential pathways in order of relevancy to you.
PRIMARY
Grown geographic reach: Within host country
SECONDARY
Enhanced existing impact through addition of complementary services
TERTIARY
Grown geographic reach: Global
Please describe which of your growth activities are current or planned for the immediate future.
Up scaling and out scaling will be done systematically by creating a network of interested women groups and Youth groups within the country. Using their contacts and developing working partnerships, fabrication centers will be developed across the country. The impacts of the project will ne enhanced by introducing additional services especially reaching the hard core poor through partnership will for profit companies through their social responsibility programmes to distribute the Jiko free of charge to the hard core poor. The project will also develop strategies of expanding to countries like South Sudan and other war ravaged economies in partnerships with international NGO's to provide the service which is in dire need in this regions.
Do you collaborate with any of the following: (Check all that apply)
Government, Technology providers, NGOs/Nonprofits, For profit companies.
If yes, how have these collaborations helped your innovation to succeed?
Government through line ministries and departments, provide security support, moral support and material support in terms of financing especially to projects that deals with the Youth.
Technology providers in designing the turbo Jiko.
NGO’s/Non profits help in funding and capacity building of project staff.
For profit companies supports specific programmes through their corporate social responsibility programmes
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