ANNEX R – PASSPORT TEMPLATE CONTENTS A. Project title B. Project description C. Proof of project eligibility D. Unique Project Identification E. Outcome stakeholder consultation process F. Outcome sustainability assessment G. Sustainability monitoring plan H. Additionality and conservativeness deviations Annex 1 ODA declarations SECTION A. Project Title Title: Tandavanala TsinjoHarena Improved cook-stoves in Vatovavy Fitovinany Region, Madagascar Date: 2016/04/06 Version no.: Issue 2 SECTION B. Project description The objective of this project is to make efficient cookstoves affordable and available to low income rural households across Vatovavy Fitovinavy Region, Republic of Madagascar. Thus, this project aims at manufacturing and distributing improved cook stoves, called Tandavanala TsinjoHarena stoves that save up to 52%1 of fuel wood in comparison to traditional stoves to cook the same amount of food. The efficient Tandavanala TsinjoHarena cook stove is a portable biomass stove designed for burning wood. The replacement of traditional stoves by TsinjoHarena stoves improves heat transfer, hence reducing the total amount of fuel required for cooking and reducing amount of GHG emitted into the atmosphere. The current cooking practice in Madagascar is the use of the “three stone” cooking stove, popularly known as traditional stoves and concerns around 93% of rural low-income homes2. This kind of stove burns large amounts of fuel wood in a very inefficient way. The use of traditional stoves has negative impacts at different levels, both social and environmental. Indeed, the combustion of the non-renewable fraction of woody biomass of the cooking fuel generates Greenhouse Gases (GHG) and as a substantial amount of wood is needed, increases deforestation. Concerning the social level, large amounts of smoke are released when cooking with a traditional stove, which are harmful for the health. This project aims to mitigate these multiple impacts by introducing energy efficient Tandavanala TsinjoHarena cook stoves. Thus, the Tandavanala TsinjoHarena stoves will reduce greenhouse gases emissions by allowing households to use less wood whose accessibility has continued to be expensive and scarce in most parts of the country. Besides reduced carbon emissions, the Tandavanala TsinjoHarena cook stoves bring multiple benefits to the stove users, such as: Improved environmental conditions: o Reduction of the use of non-renewable biomass from Madagascar forest, fostering biodiversity o Reduction of indoor air pollution (carbon monoxide and particulate matter), reducing exposition for children and mothers and reducing child pneumonia, respiratory diseases and cancer 3 associated with open fire mode of cooking Improved social and economic conditions o The project will reduce the amount of money and time spent obtaining wood fuel, especially for children and mothers, the same money can be channeled to other activities like buying food, clothes, paying for medical bills, etc. o The project will bring local employment to rural areas, through distribution, training and monitoring of the efficient stoves, thus reducing poverty. The project is developed as a carbon offset program by Fair Climate Network Southern Africa, together with TANDAVANALA a local Madagascar NGO. The project is coordinated and implemented by TANDAVANALA. 1 Refer to first Kitchen Tests performed in April 2014 2National Energy Policy 3 World Health Organization, http://www.who.int/quantifying_ehimpacts/national/countryprofile/Madagascar .pdf The implementer/TANDAVANALA will distribute the stoves to individual households; due to socio-cultural dynamics each beneficiary will be required to pay a programme fee of 2500 Ariary to obtain the cook stove and be part of the project. This will strengthen the sense of ownership of the participant and will increase his/her sense of participation. The project is mainly financed through the mechanism of carbon credits and will be certified under the Gold Standard Foundation. Estimated project start date: Project implementation started in August 2015 with the production of the first efficient Tandavanala TsinjoHarena cook stove, but the start date of the project is 1/1/2016. Figure 1: Example of an improved Tandavanala TsinjoHarena cook stove SECTION C. Proof of project eligibility C.1. Scale of the Project [See Toolkit 1.2.a] Please tick where applicable: Project Type Large Small X C.2. Host Country Republic of Madagascar C.3. Project Type Project type Yes No Does your project activity classify as a Renewable Energy project? X Does your project activity classify as an End-use Energy Efficiency X Improvement project? Does your project activity classify as waste handling and disposal project? X Please justify the eligibility of your project activity: End-use energy efficiency improvement projects are among the projects which the government of Madagascar through National Energy Policy has ratified to be encouraged for implementation by different national and international organizations. The Tandavanala TsinjoHarena Improved cook-stove project aims to manufacture and distribute improved cook-stoves –called Tandavanala TsinjoHarena cook-stove- affordable and available to low income rural households across Vatovavy Fitovinavy Region, Republic of Madagascar . The main objective of the project, set up to reach 60,000 operational stoves in the targeted area, is to replace traditional 3-stone-fires cook-stove. It saves 52% of wood biomass compared with the traditional cook-stove. As a direct consequence, the project has both environmental, by reducing human pressure on forest resources (fight against deforestation) and social benefits, by lowering harmful smoke and households’ money and time spent obtaining wood fuel. Standard: Voluntary Gold Standard The project follows the methodology "Technologies and Practices to Displace Decentralized Thermal Energy Consumption – 11/04/2011", approved by the Gold Standard Foundation in April 2011. Size of the project: This is a large-scale project because the CO2 emissions savings are higher than 60,000 ton/year on average. This project falls into an end-user energy efficiency project defined under the Gold Standard eligibility criteria. The project type eligibility is outlined in Annex C to the Gold Standard toolkit v2.2 under “Improved distributed heating and cooking devices (e.g. bio digesters, cook-stoves), and distributed micro-scale electricity generation units (e.g. micro hydro and PV for households)”. Pre Announcement Yes No Was your project previously announced? X Explain your statement on pre announcement The project was first announced to public on 12th August 2014 when conducting the Local Stakeholders Consultation. It was never announced before to the public and the planning and internal consultation has been taking place for more than 8 months to the date of LSC C.4. Greenhouse gas Greenhouse Gas Carbon dioxide X Methane X Nitrous oxide X C.5. Project Registration Type Project Registration Type Regular Comment [U1]: Tandavanala team: As the project is not a retroactive project, this column is checked Preliminary Retroactive evaluation (eg: Large Rejected by projects Hydro or palm oil- UNFCCC Pre-feasibility assessment (T.2.5.1) related project) (T2.5.3) (T.2.5.2) Comment [U2]: Tandavanala team: This column is unchecked If Retroactive, please indicate Start Date of project activity dd/mm/yyyy: 01/01/2016 Comment [U3]: Tandavanala team: The start date is modified to SECTION D. Unique project identification 01/01/2016 D.1. GPS-coordinates of project location Region Districts GP coordinates IFANADIANA 21o18’11.092” S 47o38’17.131”E Lat: -21.303081 Lon: 47.638092 Vatovavy Fitovinany IKONGO 21 o 59’41.369”S 47 o 22’14.359”E Lat: -21.9948246 Lon: 47.3706554 MANAKARA 22 o 8’35.624”S 48 o 0’21.536”E Lat: -22.143228 Lon: 48.005982 MANANJARY 21 o 13’28.251”S 48 o 20’47.193”E Lat: -21.2245142 Lon: 48.3464426 NOSY-VARIKA 20 o 35’28.526”S 48 o 31’52.42”E Lat: -20.5912573 Lon: 48.5312278 VOHIPENO 22 o 21’14.39”S 47 o 50’24.936”E Lat: -22.3539973 Lon: 47.8402601 D.2. Map Figure 2: Map of the location of Vatovavy Fitovinany Region in Madagascar SECTION E. Outcome stakeholder consultation process E.1. Assessment of stakeholder comments The local stakeholder consultation was held the 20th of August 2014 in Vatovavy Fitovinavy Region in a town called Manakara, Madagascar. The workshop gathered all representatives of local governmental entities and technical services, amongst who was the National Director for Climate Change. The local authorities were led by RANDRIAMAROLO Jean Félix, Head of the Vatovavy Fitovinany Region. In all, one hundred and forty two (142) participants were present. Name RANARIMAHEFFA Erick _ Ifanadiana District How did you As far as I am concerned: I think it was a great meeting, both with the find the responsible and all colleagues that I met. meeting? What did you Lead us to development and Improvement like the most Provides development and improvement of living conditions in about this households and society Project? Our environment will be protected(will be green again) What could About selling the improved cook (I mean the price), We should consider the have been people who provide those kind of stove, because some of them are making better? money from it, and they feed their family by selling those stoves, In brief, their business. We need to collaborate with them if possible. Name RAZAFIMARO – Manakara District How did you find the The meeting was fantastic; lots of interesting different topics to meeting? development have been discussed about this improved Stove. What did you like the What I really appreciate is that, this project could be a means to fight most about this against poverty. Project? People have been struggling using the firewood before, but now, we can say that this is the only way (Using Improved Stove), that`s the best solution to a better life! What could have What I wonder is that, the people who sell the firewood, because they do been better? this for a living, the less people buy firewood, the less money they earn.