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Newsletter SNV Rwanda December 2012

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In Pakistan, rural households often depend on fuel wood for domestic use such as cooking and lighting, therefore exhausting forests and damaging the environment. The households often lack access to modern sources of energy or they cannot afford it. 

Started in 2009, the goal of the five-year Pakistan Domestic Biogas Programme (PDBP) is to improve the livelihoods and quality of life of rural farmers through exploiting the market and non-market benefits of domestic biogas. The purpose of the programme is to develop a commercially viable domestic biogas sector.

The Rural Support Programme Network (RSPN) is engaged as the main implementing partner, supplemented by NGOs, farmers’ organisations and dairy organisations. SNV provides technical assistance.

This e-newsletter includes articles on:

-       CEO of RSPN visits PDBP office and biogas households;

-       Biogas Construction Companies’ review meeting;

-       Pakistan Biogas Association;

-       Awareness raising;

-       Mason training for construction of international standard biogas plant;

-       CSR award 2012 in alternative energy.

The SNV Domestic Biogas Newsletter provides interesting short articles on SNV-supported countries worldwide. The sixth issue (March 2012) presents: 

• Production rate of biogas plants have doubled in Africa
• Cooperation between People in Need and National Biodigester Programme in Cambodia
• Four-day workshop on mass dissemination of domestic biodigesters, 10-13 April 2012
• Market-based energy solution for 6,000 Nicaraguan farming households
• Brighter future for households in Cameroon
• Potential for biogas in Peru and Bolivia
• Female entrepreneurship in the Rwandan biogas sector
• International workshop on domestic biogas programmes in Asia
• Money for methane

In this issue:

• Milestone of 500,000 biodigesters reached
• Africa witnesses 40% increase of biogas plants in 2012
• The Senegal domestic biogas case: A missed opportunity?
• Piloting solid state biodigesters in pastoralist communities in Tanzania
• Official launch of biogas feasibility study report in Zambia
• Ms Zainab Muyobe: ‘the biogas crusader’
• International workshop on domestic biogas
• Biogas Compact Workshop 2013
• Vietnam biogas programme joins global carbon market