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As part of a conservation<\/a> project that also focused on the eco-social development of local communities, in the Bandhavgarh Sanjay Dubri Corridor of Madhya Pradesh, we were providing smokeless stoves<\/a>, or chulhas<\/em> to households. These chulhas<\/em> require less firewood as compared to traditional stoves, and also have a positive impact on health by reducing exposure to smoke.<\/p>

Six months after distributing and installing them, we revisited the project locations. The team was perplexed to find that some people were using both, their old chulhas<\/em> and the new smokeless ones. When we spoke to them, they said that since the new stoves expel the smoke outside the house through a chimney, they switched to their old stoves in the evening, when the mosquitoes would come out. They did this because the smoke that filled their homes from using their old chulhas <\/em>would drive away mosquitoes and insects.<\/p>

This was also a wake-up call for our team to plan and to communicate intent better<\/a>.<\/p>

Therefore, we decided to spend more time communicating the long-term benefits of the chulhas<\/em>. We explained the long-term health benefits and also pointed out how the new chulhas<\/em> resulted in fewer trips to the forest to collect firewood, and a potential reduction in human-animal conflict.<\/p>

Yashvardhan Dalmia is an Associate at Samhita, a CSR consulting firm. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":68578,"template":"","categories":[31,16],"tags":[],"series":[],"meta-filter":[],"schema-filter":[743],"no-display":[],"class_list":["post-3127","ground_up_stories","type-ground_up_stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ground-up","category-programme","states-madhya-pradesh","schema-filter-article"],"yoast_head":"\nStoves and mosquitoes | Ground Up | India Development Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"#groundupstories aim to bridge the gap between development practice, decision making and ground realities across India.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idronline.org\/ground-up-stories\/stoves-and-mosquitoes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"kn_IN\" \/>\n<meta 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