Lead country
Angola
Participating countries
Angola
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From September 27, 2016 to September 26, 2022
Project ID: 5331
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Technical team
- Energy Programme
Technical area(s)
- Energy access
Sub-area(s)
- Sustainable charcoal
- Clean cooking
Landscape(s)
- Human altered areas
- Forests
Sub-landscape(s)
- Urban areas
- Rural areas
- General
Transformed sector(s)
- Energy
- Forestry and other land use
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
- Policy advice
Strategy
- Law regulation
- Management operation
- Capacity building
Sub-strategy
- Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
- Institutional framework
- Sustainable land management
- Institutional capacity building
- Technical capacity building
Social inclusion
- Local community/CSOs
- Women
- Private sector
Gender equality
- Livelihoods for women
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender responsive
Pathway(s)
- People pathway
- Systems pathway
- Sci-tech pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Improve resilience
- Hazard control/mitigation
SDG target(s)
- 7.3 Double global rate energy efficiency improvement
- 15.2 Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation
Conventions and protocols
N/A
Private sector(s)
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
Hot topic
- Multi-stakeholder collaboration
- Poverty reduction
- Food and agricultural commodities strategy
About this project
Description
The Project aims to introduce energy-efficient charcoal technologies in Angola and trigger market demand for certified, sustainable charcoal. Through selected Responsible Partners, energy-efficient charcoal kilns, briquetting machines and efficient stoves will be transferred to rural and peri-urban beneficiaries, thereby adding value along the chain while creating opportunities for income and job creation. Environmental benefits are attained by mitigation of baseline greenhouse gas emissions, reduction of local pollution, and saving of forest-based biomass resources. The Project will deliver key elements for building and financing a sustainable charcoal sector, including a policy white paper and sustainability criteria and verification mechanisms. The Project will further build relevant human resources at all levels for implementing and sustaining low-emission development strategies in Angola, with a focus on charcoal and rural biomass utilization. Finally, the Project will mainstream sustainable charcoal into existing Governmental poverty reduction and rural development programs.
Objectives
To reduce the current unsustainable and GHG-intensive mode of charcoal production and utilization from Angola"s Miombo woodlands via an integrated set of interventions in the national charcoal value chain.
USD $4,720,000
Grant amount
USD $18,736,700
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($4,720,000)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Angola
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