Instituto Perene -Special Achievement Award

Instituto Perene promotes projects that benefit rural communities while helping conserve the natural resources of the Atlantic Forest biome of Brazil. To address the widespread problem of inefficient wood-burning cook stoves, they developed an improved stove with the help of local stakeholders and Aprovecho, and scaled up the initiative through carbon financing. Perene’s pioneering program is benefiting 30,000 people through the construction of 6,000 efficient stoves. The project maintains a record of all stoves installed in a detailed project database. An extensive series of monitoring tasks is conducted, including kitchen surveys every 3 months during the first year of installation. In each community, an interested, respected, and motivated woman is identified to work for the project as a Community Agent, helping with engagement, monitoring and post-installation service.

Please see the Bulletin 27 Awards Supplement for an interview with Instituto Perene’s Renata Everett Valladares.