Local capacity building and industrial development: Sustainable local capacity building is implemented and supported in the long-term by Prakti. Workers and companies are trained on modern industrial machines, technical know-how, but also international quality standards. The local industry is fostered and the workers trained gain substantial skills and know-how.
Women entrepreneurship: Women will be provided training and long-term support in selling Prakti stoves. As a result they gain useful skills while accessing an income-generating activity.
Women collecting wood fuel in Nepal (picture: Nigel Bruce/Practical Action)
Country context
Trees have nearly all but disappeared in the southern belt of Nepal known as the Terai. Firewood is very costly while half of the population lives on less than $2 a day. Old improved cookstoves were disseminated throughout the country but women and children are still exposed to horrid and damaging smoke.
The cooking space in a Nepali house (CWS)
Houses and traditional cookstoves
In the urban slums around the town of Pokhara and in the villages uphill people often live in a one-room home. The space is ventilated as little as possible to keep the heat in. Free but smoky cookstoves are made of mud and plastered as often as needed. Many people living in the slums cannot afford lentils nowadays and often just make a watery curry and boiled potatoes, thus missing vital proteins. Our local partner aims to encourage families to use their future fuels savings to afford a more balanced diet.
LeoChimney (picture: CWS)
Prakti LeoChimney stove
Since January 2010 Prakti Design's implementation partner Child Welfare Scheme (CWS) has field-piloted 75 LeoChimney stoves in urban and rural settings around Pokhara. Community satisfaction is tremendous with cooks appreciating the high reduction in cooking and cleaning time as much as the fuel savings - average monthly fuel savings are reported to amount to $10.9 (796 Nepalse rupees per month).
Local assembly (picture: CWS)
In December 2010 the first un-assembled stoves arrived to Nepal. In collaboration with CWS and the Pokhara Chamber of Industry, a vocational training center started to train a few of its graduates to assemble the stoves. The assembly was successful and all future stoves sent to CWS will be assembled locally.
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