Sector Directory

Organization

Women Development Centre (WODEC) EA LTD

Mission

The Women Development Centre (WODEC) is a women-led company which has firmly positioned itself to engage in development and promoting renewable energy/appropriate energy Technologies. WODEC endeavors to address basic needs of rural communities, especially the women while improving their livelihoods. It was established in April 2012 with a mission of promoting and propagating environmentally safe renewable/appropriate energy technologies thereby strengthening the capability of rural populations, especially women to respond to their basic needs and create better opportunities to improve their livelihoods and upgrade the socio-economic conditions. WODEC's major area of operation includes renewable energy management and water sector.

Organizational Expertise

Adoption / Behavior Change, Carbon Finance, Capacity Building, Climate/Environment, Finance / Investment, Gender / Womens Empowerment, Humanitarian/Emergency Response, Livelihoods, Monitoring and Evaluation, Policy Development, Research, Marketing, Standards, Technology and Fuel R&D, Lab or Field Testing

Technologies & Fuels

Biogas, Biomass (Ag. Residue, Processed Biomass, etc.), Charcoal, Kerosene, Pellets / Briquettes, Solar

Clean Cooking Activities

Over the last one year, WODEC has partnered with local schools to distribute energy saving cooking stoves for select schools and community institutions in Uasin Gishu County. One of the institutions that recently benefited from their scheme, include, the Kenya Community Sports Foundation (KESOFO) which was given one improved cook stove for the Children Safer Spaces project within Eldoret town.

WODEC is a member of the Improved Cook Stoves for East Africa, a Coordinating and Managing Entity, for the carbon access PoA umbrella covering the five countries of the East African Community (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi), plus Sudan and Ethiopia. The PoA has finished its validation and is now close to registration. Each Supplier Organization (or group of small manufacturers, distributors, or importers) can join the œopen-source PoA, and each can have multiple CDM Programme Activity projects (CPAs).

Partnership

WODEC is interested in establishing viable partnerships with donors and clean stove manufacturers. In particular, we are interested in setting up a manufacturing plant and hence we would be keen to develop a Memorandum of Understanding and a cooperation framework with any entity willing to set up a factory in Kenya and the East African region.

Already we have many women-led companies all over the East African region which would form a solid network of distributors of clean stoves and allied clean energy products

Regions Operating In

Sub-Saharan Africa

Country Based In

Kenya

Address

PO BOX 6107

ELDORET, 30100

Primary Point of Contact

Name: Ms. MILKA CHEROTICH

Title: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Email: womendevelopmentcenter@yahoo.com

Phone: 254 723329530

Secondary Point of Contact

Name: Mr. Wesley Chirchir

Title: Director

Email: warenginstitute@yahoo.com

Phone: 254 722 992107