By Meriam Salem | Development Intern
Since our last report, we have impacted the lives of 265,704 people in Sudan, saving them time, money, and exposure to harmful cooking smoke with our primary partner Sustainable Action Group (SAG), a Sudanese NGO with operations in Sudan’s IDP camps. At the start of the project, there was no earned revenue from stove sales, and all work completed by SAG was supported by PE. As stove sales have now ramped up, with over 12,000 stoves having been sold in the past 2 years, we have successfully transitioned much of the day-to-day responsibilities involved in running the project over to SAG’s team. With this transition, SAG has hired a local team to oversee sales, distributor relationships, assembly and product maintenance.
As we think about the future, we are most excited about investing in projects that have the potential for revenue generation and long-term economic sustainability. With increasing revenue from stove sales we believe we are on the path to leaving the project in a good place. Toward the end of the project period, we finalized a contract for carbon offset program management. Since signing, the carbon offset project management firm has worked closely with the team to go through the required steps in order to register & approve our project with the Gold Standard Foundation. We anticipate selling our first credits in early 2016; revenue generated from this project will also help bolster the sustainability of locally run programming and ensure access to the BDS for IDP and re-settled populations for years to come.
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