Ethiopia Inaugurates Model Biogas Village

SNV Ethiopia and Southern Nations Nationalities and People Region Biogas Programme Coordination Unit have launched the first biogas village in Ethiopia.
The model biogas villages will serve as a centre of excellence for bio-digester technology and its co-products. The two partners have planned to send researchers and visitors to these villages to promote the technology as well as stimulate research related to bio-digester and its co-products. 
The villages, Buna Mesk/Mendere-2, is located in Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples regional state, Sidama Zone, Wondo Genet woreda Wosha Soyama Kebele. It consists of 56 households of which 27 own more than four dairy cows - a minimum technical requirement to own 6 m3 bio-digester. In the village 21 households own fully functional bio-digester (78% of households in the village) and enjoy its benefit (energy for cooking and lighting, bio-slurry and toilet connection). All the digesters are functional.


Since the launch of NBPE (2009) - 4,547 bio digesters were installed in the region. Currently, the number of digesters constructed in the woreda reached 215. Out of these digesters, 87 are located in the Wosha Soyama Kebele.

According to Melakmu Dame, Credit Finance Expert of SNV Ethiopia, most of the digesters (73%) in village are constructed using credit finance from Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). Supplementing Melkamu’s idea, Bureau of Mines and Energy Agency head Tiratu Beyene called upon stakeholders to address gaps in upgrading credit finance flow from MFIs in the region to bio-digester users.

During the inauguration ceremony, users testified that they are diversifying their income and promoting the technology through sale of liquid bio-slurry. 

The region is working to increase the number of model bio-gas villages. It has identified two additional woredas and is providing technical support.
A village qualifies a model bio-gas village if all the available digesters are technically functional (gas use for cooking and/or lighting), households are using as well as properly managing bio-slurry, users connected their toilet with the digester andhave established biogas village committee. This committee is responsible to support each other on minor maintenance, promote the technology, and communicate with masons/biogas construction enterprises or Woreda Energy Experts for technical support.
The village was declared as model biogas village by regional Water Irrigation and Energy Bureau of SNNPR in October 2019.
Experiences from Buna Mesk Model Biogas Village, the SNNP RBPCU has also initiated similar model biogas village in Offa woreda of Wolayita zone.

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