Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  494
• Project status 2022
  Ongoing
• Project name
  Hifadhi-Livelihoods Project
• Secondary name
• Country
  Kenya
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2022
• Size (in hectare)
  266210
• Start year
  ND
• End year
  2024
• Duration
  5
• Project description
  The project activity involves the distribution of 60,000 improved cookstoves across Tharaka Nithi County in Kenya. In Tharaka Nithi, firewood is the most common cooking fuel with over 89% of households relying on it[1]. The current cooking practice in Kenya is the use of the “three stone” cooking stove, popularly known as traditional stoves and concerns over 90% of rural low-income homes
• Objective 1
  social development
• Objective 2
  reduce of deforestation
• Objective 3
  climate
• Deforestation drivers
  energy wood
• Type of forest
  dry
• Project activity
  other-end-use energy efficiency project
• Project Type
  other
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  Agroforestry
• Multiple locations?
  yes
• Jurisdiction level 1
  Province: Eastern Kenya
• Jurisdiction level 2
  Tharaka Nithi County

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  2019-2024
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  1057857
• Leakage is expected?
  yes
• Carbon pools included
  ND
• Gasses included
  ND
• Reference period start year
  2009
• Reference period end year
  2019
• Carbon standard 1
  Gold standard

Carbon certification

• Carbon standard 1 Progress
  In process
• Carbon standard 1 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 1 Weblinks
  https://registry.goldstandard.org/projects/details/1890
• Carbon standard 1 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2
  CDM
• Carbon standard 2 Progress
  In process
• Carbon standard 2 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2 Weblinks
  https://platform.sustain-cert.com/public-project/1744
• Carbon standard 2 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 3
  none
• Carbon standard 3 Progress
  NA
• Carbon standard 3 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Weblinks
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Expiry date
  ND
• Source of information
  All info based on draft version PDD (word ver) provided in gold standard https://platform.sustain-cert.com/public-project/1744

Community level intervention

• Any monetary benefits?
  No
• Monetary benefit type
  ND
• Monetary benefit detail
  No payment from generating carbon credit to community. The communities will get discounted cookstoves in return to involve in the project
• Provides employment?
  Yes
• Are there non-cash benefits?
  Yes
• Economic activities - type
  ND
• Is there tenure clarification?
  No
• Is there environmental education?
  Yes
• Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?
  ND
• Is there forest enhancement?
  No
• Is there community infrastracture improvement?
  No
• Is there other community benefits?
  Yes