This Euro 15m project seeks to provide early recovery support to communities in Boko Haram ravaged Borno State, Northeast Nigeria with environmentally sustainable skills and livelihood. Over the three years, ICEED will build the capacity of youths and women to provide climate smart agriculture, solar energy and clean cooking solutions. ICEED will install solar home systems in 650 houses and 12 health and educational institutions. It combines market based approaches with high value social interventions in agriculture, health and education. The project is implemented in partnership with Mercy Corps Europe.

This is being co-implemented in partnership with Oxfam. ICEED is responsible for delivering the clean cookstoves component by developing and implementing the design and production of at least 35,000 low cost locally-made efficient wood stoves; developing a financing mechanism, building a corps of women entrepreneurs and developing and implementing behaviour change communications. Since inception, the project has established a market-based supply chain for efficient woodstoves with up to 431 actors. In addition, over 50,000 stoves have been disseminated by the project through a purely market-based approach. ICEED is currently with Atmosfair GMBH to register the stoves as part of the Clean Development Mechanism of the UNFCCC.

ICEED is supporting the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in the implementation of a Safe Access to Fuels and Energy (SAFE) project in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria. The project provided technical and business training to Internally Displaced Persons in the construction and marketing of efficient cooking solutions. ICEED has established 3 fuel efficient woodstove production centres in Jere, MMC and Konduga LGAs and built the technical and business capacity of 100 IDPs, returnees and host community members on production and sales of stoves. ICEED has further facilitated linkages to the market and this has led to the trained persons selling over 12,000 stoves. To expand access to alternative and more environmental friendly biomass fuels, ICEED developed a Roadmap for the Development of Briquettes in Borno State. The roadmap among other contents proposed the following:

• Establishment of briquette production centres in areas of high feedstock yield
• Capacity development among local farmers and artisans
• Development of briquette-compatible fuel efficient stoves
• Promotional campaigns; and
• Pilot projects

The project facilitated an effective response to the cooking fuel and energy needs of three Internally Displaced Persons camps in Yola Adamawa State in a safe and sustainable manner without fear or risk to health, well-being and personal security. This was achieved through the training of 100 women and youths in the production of efficient clay/ceramics based cookstoves from locally available materials, and development of mechanism for stove distribution. Other activities included public awareness and campaign for behavioural change among households in the camp, dissemination of at least 1,000 stoves in Malkohi Camp II and provision of institutional stoves for NYSC and Fufore Camps.

This project aims to stimulate the launch of a viable commercial market for improved cooking energy solutions for the rice produce value chain. This was accomplished by strengthening the supply chain through appropriate stove design, production, stove performance testing, production and distribution training. Demand was enhanced by developing marketing, communication and behavioural change tools and exploring opportunities for micro-financing. Furthermore, the project supported the creation of an enabling policy environment by engaging with state, federal agencies, donors and other partnerships to ensure that lessons learned are carried forward and opportunities for scale up are explored. These activities led to the dissemination of over 100 fuel efficient parboiling stoves among rice processing clusters in the state.

This project seeks to expand access to clean cookstoves to households and institutions in Abia, Anambara, Cross River, Ebonyi, Edo, Enugu and Imo States. Beneficiaries are households and institutions such as boarding schools and hospitals. Components include: baseline research, market development, including the development and delivery of communication tools.

In consortium with Adam Smith International, ICEED provided technical support to the Rural Electrification Agency to develop an implementation plan for the Rural Electrification Fund. This includes fund mobilisation and fund operational frameworks.

In collaboration with the World Bank, ICEED in partnership with Adam Smith International mobilised leading world experts to support the Federal Ministry of Power's National Electrification Access Programme concept - and produced "Achieving Universal Electricity Access by 2030 - National Electrification Access Programme - Blueprint for Action. This sets out the road map for achieving universal access in Nigeria by 2030.

ICEED led the DFID-Support Team to develop a National Rural Electrification Strategy for the Rural Electrification Agency. The strategy was developed in consultation with key stakeholders.

ICEED is the sole implementer of this project. This project aims to create a template for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and health risks among women by improving the efficiency of the use of firewood in households and institutions. ICEED achieved the following:

1. Efficient institutional woodstoves supplied and in use in 56 public boarding secondary schools in Ebonyi and Niger States;
2. About 500 pilot households enjoy the benefits of clean cooking Ebonyi and Niger States;
3. Over 100 stove developers, SMEs and women organizations trained in clean cooking energy design, construction and distribution; and
4. Supported Ebonyi and Niger States in developing and launching Safe Cooking Energy Programs to reach 800,000 households in the two states

Sole implementer of the project. Provided testing and certification services related to stove technical quality, indoor air pollution, and energy efficiency; assisted stove developers in improving stove design and construction methods; and carried out public awareness campaigns.

Through the Coalitions for Change Programme, DFID supported ICEED to build a partnership to develop the market for climate-based agricultural insurance scheme. The programme included baseline survey, market and policy research on agricultural insurance. The partnership included the National Insurance Commission, Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria Agricultural Insurance Corporation, representatives of the insurance industry and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture. This programme was further supported by additional research consultancy from the World Bank.

This project is designed to provide end-use lighting and power outlets to 91 households, public houses, street lights and water supply. It has 2 centrally located generating stations where the solar panels, controllers, batteries, inverters and other accessories are housed. From there power is extended to end-point uses through distribution systems. It has been completed and commissioned. ICEED provided consultancy services to the project which included technical design of the system, development of bill of engineering measurements and evaluations, selection criteria for the contractors, supervision and commissioning of the installation and hand over to the Federal Ministry of Power.

This project is designed to provide end-use lighting and power outlets to 150 households and street lights in the farm. It has a centrally located generating station where the solar panels, controllers, batteries, inverters and other accessories are housed. From there power is extended to end-point uses through distribution systems. It has been completed and commissioned. ICEED provided consultancy services to the project which included technical design of the system, development of bill of engineering measurements and evaluations, selection criteria for the contractors, supervision and commissioning of the installation and hand over to the Federal Ministry of Power.

Identification, Feasibility Study and Design of Small Hydropower Systems in Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo & River States, Nigeria.

ICEED provided the Project Manager’s for the REAP and overall responsibility for the development of Renewable Electricity Policy and Regulation for Nigeria. This includes the development of a 10-year Renewable Electricity Action Program (REAP) and implementation of small hydro and solar pilot projects in Bauchi, Cross River, Edo, Katsina and Ogun States.

Niger State efficient woodstove pilot project seeks to demonstrate efficient woodstoves technology in order to build an advocacy campaign to extend the benefits of this technology across other schools within the state and the nation at large. The project achieved the following:

• Produced and installed 3 units of efficient 60 litre institutional woodstoves for Government Girls Secondary School Bida, Niger State;
• Renovated the school’s kitchen;
• Trained 3 local artisans in Niger State on design and production of this stove; and
• Created awareness on the co-benefits of fuel efficient woodstoves that reached over 1,000 school girls.

The survey looked at Nigeria's woodfuel resource base, and woodfuel use in urban and semi-urban areas including Sokoto, Jos, Ibadan, Lafia, Kaduna, Abakaliki, Maidugri, Makurdi and the FCT. It also looked at the magnitude of wood consumption, health and cost implications and potentials to switch to cleaner options among households in the surveyed towns. This survey formed part of a proposed 'One Million Woodfuel Project' which aimed at reducing by half the number of households and institutions cooking with woodfuel in Nigeria by 2015.

The assessment looked at the cooking energy use pattern in boarding schools, prisons, restaurants, hotels and bakeries in the 2 states. It assessed their cooking energy use and costs, cooking instruments and practices, health and environmental impacts, and awareness and willingness to change cooking instruments. The assessment also looked at the ability of metal workshops in the 2 states to undertake production of efficient institutional woodstoves.