PROJECT BRIEF
Ambulant Food Vendors: Energy-Efficient Stove and Hygienic, Healthy Food
A Pilot Project for the Urban Entrepreneurial Poor in the Philippines
Programme : | Improved Cookstove of the Philippines (ICS-P) |
Location : | Metropolotan City of Manila, Cebu and Davao |
Status : | On-going |
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Project Leaders : |
National Coordinator - Feri G. Lumampao, fglumampao@yahoo.com
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Partner-Implementing: | Alternative Learning System, DepEd-Manila
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Supported by : | The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) |
Objectives : Provision of appropriate energy technologies and products, e.g. energy-efficient charcoal stoves, solar water heater, solar kiosks and capability-building activities such as food micro-business management, food hygiene and sanitation, systems installation, menu planning and food processing, solar water disinfection (SODIS) to ambulant food vendors
Benefits : new knowledge and information, savings on energy expenses, safe and hygienic, healthy and nutritious affordable foods, clean environment, advocacy for recognition of ambulant vendors or legalizing their existence, health certificates and business permits, freeing them from usurers and financiers
Keywords : gender, energy, water, waste management, poverty, enterprise
Duration : November 2005 - December 2006
Expected and realized outputs:
100 ambulant food vendors capacitated for