THE GOLD STANDARD MICRO-SCALE SCHEME PROJECT DESIGN DOCUMENT FORM - Version 2.2 CONTENTS A. General description of the micro scale project activity B. Application of an existing or new baseline and monitoring methodology C. Duration of the project activity and crediting period D. Stakeholders’ comments Annexes Annex 1: Contact information on participants in the proposed micro scale project activity Annex 2: Information regarding Public Funding 1 SECTION A. General description of micro-scale project activity A.1 Title of the micro-scale project activity: >> Title GS 1146 - Expanding access to LPG in Burkina Faso through microfranchised distribution >> Date & version of the PDD Version 1, submitted 03/15/2014: part A&D only Version 2, submitted 9/28/2016 A.2. Project participants: >> Entrepreneurs du Monde, a French NGO based in Lyon, France, acts as the project owner and carbon developer. A.3 Description of the micro-scale project activity: A.3.1. Location of the micro-scale project activity: >> A.3.1.1. Host Country: >> Burkina Faso A.3.1.2. Region/State/Province etc.: >> Central Region, Kadiogo Province A.3.1.3. City/Town/Community etc: >>The project is taking place in the 7 departments of the Kadiogo Province: - Komki-Ipala - Komsilga - Koubri - Ouagadougou - Pabré - Saaba - Tanghin-Dassouri Other than Ouagadougou, there is no city as such in the Province and the relevant administrative entities are the departments listed above. 2 A.3.1.4. Details of physical location, including information allowing the unique identification of this micro-scale project activity: The project is situated within the physical boundaries detailed above. To ensure unique identification of this microscale project activity each stove sold under this project will have a unique identification number. The updated list of all the stove sold under the project will be provided in time for each yearly verification. A.3.2. Description including technology and/or measure of the micro-scale project activity: In Burkina Faso, non-renewable solid biomass represents ninety-one (91) percent of the total energy consumed yearly. Indeed, eighty-four (84) percent of households use wood and charcoal on a daily basis. For that reason, there is a growing pressure on forests and the country currently looses 105,000 hectares of forested land every year according to the Ministry in charge of environmental issues (“Ministère de l’environnement et du développement durable”). High efficiency improved cookstoves and gas stoves help fight deforestation by significantly reducing the demand for wood and charcoal, and thus contribute to a global reduction in GHG emissions from biomass combustion. To deal with this issue, the French NGO Entrepreneurs du Monde launched a new program called Nafa Naana with the objective to facilitate access to cleaner, more modern and cheaper sources of energy for all. Nafa Naana received some financial support from the Burkina Faso Ministry of Energy in the PASE framework (“Programme d’accès aux Services Energétiques”) between 2014 and 2015. Nafa Naana works as a social micro-franchise that distributes more efficient, reliable and sustainable charcoal and wood stoves, LGP stoves and solar lanterns. Nafa Naana is developing its own distribution network with the objective of making those products easily available to all. Financial services are offered to Nafa Naana clients either as group loans or individual loans to help people with limited financial means access those products. Finally, Nafa Naana is trying to increase the level of awareness in local populations about the described issues and the advantages of those products through information sessions on fuel poverty and by creating communication tools tailored to the local context. Due to the products delivered, its main target is the women in rural areas, who are the immediate victims of the negative effects of traditional cooking practices. The next step will very likely be the creation of a social enterprise in order to assure the sustainability of its social mission: to distribute as many energy products as possible in Burkina Faso. The project activity “Expanding access to LPG in Burkina Faso through microfranchised distribution” is in phase with this approach since it aims to promote the use of LPG as a source of energy for cooking, thus limiting the usage of wood and thus reducing emissions of greenhouse gas. In addition to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and helping fight deforestation, this project also offers the possibility to reduce the emissions of toxic fumes such as carbon monoxide and PM 2.5 inside the homes of the beneficiary population. Indeed, the combustion of wood with traditional stoves releases toxic fumes in the air. These toxic fumes are one of the main causes of respiratory diseases among women and children. Finally, the use of LGP cookstoves, instead of traditional ones, means that the end user is saving significant amounts of money because fuel expenses per gram of food cooked are lower for LPG than for wood when the wood is purchased by the user. 3 The characteristics of stoves promoted by this project is listed below: Telia LPG Kit Single-burner LPG stove for 6kg cylinders Contains: - Burner and regulator - Metal stand to support pots - Hooks to hold pot, stand and cylinder together. - 6 kg cylinder. Measured average thermal efficiency: 55%1 Cylinder supplied by Sodigaz (imported). Burner, stand and hooks supplied by local SMEs. Price: USD 55 A.3.3 Estimated amount of emission reductions over the chosen crediting period: The result from the first year is based on extensive field survey already conducted at the time of the submission of the PDD for validation. Given the growth of stove sale, the total number of VER issued by the project is expected to reach the microscale cap by the second crediting year. Crediting Year Stove being VER used June 1st 2015 – May 31st 2016 3,557 1,520 June 1st 2016 – May 31st 2017 5,213 2,227 June 1st 2017 – May 31st 2018 10,000 4,271 June 1st 2018 – May 31st 2019 10,000 4,271 June 1st 2019 – May 31st 2020 10,000 4,271 1 See WBT conducted by IRSAT in project documentation. 4 June 1st 2020 – May 31st 2021 10,000 4,271 June 1st 2021 – May 31st 2022 10,000 4,271 June 1st 2022 – May 31st 2023 10,000 4,271 June 1st 2023 – May 31st 2024 10,000 4,271 June 1st 2024 – May 31st 2025 10,000 4,271 YEARLY AVERAGE 8,877 3,792 A.3.4. Public funding of the micro-scale project activity: The project receives some public funding from the Monaco Cooperation Office, USAID and the Government of Burkina Faso. VER issued by this project are not fungible with the EU compliance market or any other carbon market. The funding is not given in exchange of any counterpart to the governments of Burkina Faso, Monaco, or the United States of America. See ODA declaration form in annex 2. SECTION B. Application of an existing baseline and monitoring methodology or of a new methodology submitted as part of this project activity B.1. Title and reference of the existing or new baseline and monitoring methodology applied to the micro-scale project activity: >> This Project Design Document follows the Gold Standard VER Methodology entitled “Technologies and Practices to Displace Decentralized Thermal Energy Consumption” version 2.0 B.2 Justification of the choice of the methodology and applicability: Eligibility criteria related to the applied methodology: 5 1. The project boundary needs to be clearly The project geographic boundaries are identified, and the technologies counted in clearly defined (the province of Kadiogo). the project are not included in any other As of the date of submission no other carbon voluntary market or CDM project activity project seeks carbon credits for a LPG stove (i.e. no double counting takes place). In in this area. some cases there maybe another similar To prevent double counting, a complete list activity within the same target area. of stove sold and included into the project is Project proponents must therefore have a maintained. survey mechanism in place together with Each stove has a unique serial number. appropriate mitigation measures so as to prevent any possibility of double counting. 2. The technologies each have continuous WBT done on the stove shows that they have useful energy outputs of less than 150kW a total power of less than 6kW per unit2. per unit (defined as the total useful energy delivered from start to end of operation of a unit divided by time of operation). For technologies or practices that do not deliver thermal energy in the project scenario but only displace thermal energy supplied in the baseline scenario, the 150kW threshold applies to the displaced baseline technology. 3. Using the baseline technology as a backup Two mechanisms are put into place to or auxiliary technology in parallel with the encourage the removal of the old improved technology introduced by the technology: project activity is permitted as long as a mechanism is put into place to encourage - Awareness rising campaign: information the removal of the old technology (e.g. sessions, flyers, radio (in February, discounted price for the improved September and October 2015) and TV technology) and the definitive discontinuity (July and August and September 2015) of its use. The project documentation spots encourage the targeted must provide a clear description of the population to discontinue the use of approach chosen and the monitoring plan their traditional stove and to replace it must allow for a good understanding of completely with a clean LPG stove. the extent to which the baseline - An incentive of 250 FCFA (about US$ technology is still in use after the 0.5) is given to households that will introduction of the improved technology.