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Biodiversity - Forest - Land uses
Economic transition (sustainable supply-chains,circular economy, employment)
Energy
“COFIFAM” – Consolidating Enhanced Households in the Republic of Guinea
Project battling deforestation in Guinea, sustainable management of wood reserves and improvement of living conditions. Initiative created in 2009 with the aim to create over 17 000 energy efficient cookers (CHRE) for domestic and professional use.
An initiative of Coopération Atlantique Guinée 44

Overview of the project
Fighting against deforestation in Guinea and participating in the sustainable management of wood reserves in order to improve living conditions of families.
Launching
- to train a network of 10 boilermakers and welders SMEs
- to train a network of 60 women to become salespeople and to produce almost 10 000 energy efficient wood cookers
- marketing and sale of nearly 8700 cookers
- + 20,000 tons of avoided CO2 emissions
Funding is not fully completed yet. Grants were obtained from the French Development Agency, the Albert II Foundation of Monaco, the Pays de la Loire Region. Products from the sale of cooking tools are also funding the project. Lastly, the labeling process and the issuing of carbon credits constitutes a significant funding potential for the project.
About the
organisation
organisation
Coopération Atlantique Guinée 44 us an association of committed citizens who with to contribute to supportive development in Guinea. The association Guinée 44 has been operating in the field since 1994.
Known and recognized by civil society and local actors, the association accompanies its Guinean partners in order to establish development projects in these three main domains:
- water, sanitation and waste
- agriculture, agricultural and rural development,
- social and professional integration of Youth