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ADES - Association pour le Développement de l'Energie Solaire Suisse - Madagascar is a Swiss NGO that has been working to preserve the forests in Madagascar since 2001. By distributing solar and energy-saving cookers, ADES reduces the demand for wood and charcoal. The cooker production is accompanied by education and reforestation projects. ADES is guided by the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. According to "The Gold Standard", ADES' work has a positive impact on 10 of the 17 SDGs for sustainable development. In 2021, ADES received the award for international .ORG of the Year 2021 at the .ORG Impact Awards and also won the category Overcoming Climate Change.

The Association

On 23 March 2001, the association ADES was founded in Ottenbach (Zurich, Switzerland). ADES founder Regula Ochsner was a development worker in Toliara in the south of Madagascar from 1972 to 1975. When she visited the country with her mother Ruth Ochsner in 1998, she was dismayed by the rapidly progressing deforestation. Regula and Ruth Ochsner decided to do their utmost to preserve the forest in Madagascar. At the founding meeting, Regula Ochsner was elected the first president of the association. Since 2018, the association has been certified with the seal of approval of the Swiss foundation Zewo.

Mode of operation

After concentrating on the production of solar cookers in the early years, ADES integrated new areas of activity into its operations over the years. Today, ADES follows a three-pillar approach. Based on fundamental social values and aiming to preserve Madagascar's forests and livelihoods, the three pillars of activities include:

- Solar and energy saving cookers

ADES solar and energy-saving cookers significantly reduce wood and coal consumption. Solar cookers heat food using only the power of the sun. Energy-saving cookers reduce fuel consumption by 50 to 80 percent, depending on use.

- Education and awareness-raising

For a long-term improvement of the situation in Madagascar, ADES uses education and sensitisation measures to make the population more sensitive to nature. Resellers are helped to build up a financial livelihood. Specially trained staff teach environmental education to schoolchildren and enable teachers to integrate environmental education into their lessons.

- Reforestation

ADES is reforesting at six locations in Madagascar (as of 2022). One focus is on the Ejeda region, where projects are implemented together with local village communities. In the highlands and at other locations, ADES works together with reforestation partner organisations. In 2021, about 120,000 trees were reforested in this way.

Organisation

ADES is organised as a swiss association and its General Assembly is the highest body. The Board of Directors, which works free of charge, determines the strategic direction and appoints the management. ADES maintains an office in Mettmenstetten. The tasks of the office include operational management, financing of the overall project as well as communication and awareness raising in Switzerland and other countries. The Madagascar Directorate reports directly to the Executive Board in Switzerland. It carries out operational activities in Madagascar on behalf of the ADES association.

As of 2021, ADES is active in all 22 regions of Madagascar. ADES maintains 8 centres, eight branches and three motorised ADES Mobiles, which reach out to the population away from urban centres. ADES has created 240 jobs in Madagascar (as of September 2022).

The association is financed by donations and membership fees. Since 2011, ADES energy-saving cookers have been certified by The Gold Standard, enabling ADES to gain another financial foothold through the sale of CO2 certificates. In 2021, 53 per cent came from the sale of certificates.

News[]

November 2021 - ADES wins ADES wins the category "overcoming climate change" and the main prize "organisation of the year" at the international .ORG Impact Awards.

Documents[]

2002: ADES Annual Report for 2022

The products that ADES manufactures and sells[]

Audio and video[]

2021

ADES: Sustainably effective for Madagascar!

Contact[]

Luc Estapé
General Manager
IM Grindel 6
8932 Mettmenstetten
Switzerland

Tel. +41 44 466 60 50

Email: info@ades-solaire.org
Web: http://www.ades-solaire.org

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+ADES - Association pour le Développement de l'Energie Solaire Suisse - Madagascar is a Swiss NGO that has been working to preserve the forests in Madagascar since 2001. By distributing solar and energy-saving cookers, ADES reduces the demand for wood and charcoal. The cooker production is accompanied by education and reforestation projects. ADES is guided by the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. According to "The Gold Standard", ADES' work has a positive impact on 10 of the 17 SDGs for sustainable development. In 2021, ADES received the award for international .ORG of the Year 2021 at the .ORG Impact Awards and also won the category Overcoming Climate Change.
+'''The Association'''
+On 23 March 2001, the association ADES was founded in Ottenbach (Zurich, Switzerland). ADES founder Regula Ochsner was a development worker in Toliara in the south of Madagascar from 1972 to 1975. When she visited the country with her mother Ruth Ochsner in 1998, she was dismayed by the rapidly progressing deforestation. Regula and Ruth Ochsner decided to do their utmost to preserve the forest in Madagascar. At the founding meeting, Regula Ochsner was elected the first president of the association. Since 2018, the association has been certified with the seal of approval of the Swiss foundation Zewo.
-[[File:ADES_November_2012.jpg|right|400px]]
-'''Association pour le Développement de l'Energie Solaire''' (ADES) is a Swiss NGO that produces solar cookers in [[Madagascar]] and supports the use of renewable energy sources. The objective is to provide solar cookers and fuel-efficient stoves for cooking to people in Madagascar. In this way wood fuel and charcoal consumption can be substantially reduced. The project started in Tuléar in the south of Madagascar in 2001. Local production by local people with local material is part of the ADES philosophy. Cookers built and solar at subsidized prices now number in the thousands.
+'''Mode of operation'''
-===The deforestation problem===
+After concentrating on the production of solar cookers in the early years, ADES integrated new areas of activity into its operations over the years. Today, ADES follows a three-pillar approach. Based on fundamental social values and aiming to preserve Madagascar's forests and livelihoods, the three pillars of activities include:
-For centuries the population of Madagascar has been cooking their food with wood, which requires vast amounts of firewood in the form of charcoal. About 90% of the original forest in Madagascar is destroyed. It is not any more a green island but becomes more and more a red one. Madagascar has, especially in the south and southwest regions of the country, close to ideal conditions for the use of solar energy. The solar cookers and efficient stoves are an important contribution towards halting the deforestation process. Besides environmental reasons, there are also economical and practical reasons to favor the solar cooker. Families spend less money on wood and charcoal, and cooking with the solar cooker saves having to cook over smoky fires and avoid the associated respiratory disease.
+''- Solar and energy saving cookers''
-To be able to convince the people to this new way of cooking, ADES provides cooking demonstrations, and training to women who disseminate the cookers themselves. There are also workshops for school teachers in the environmental questions and usage of solar cookers, so they can integrate them in their lessons and publicity programs were done. Solar cookers have to be subsidized so that the people can afford
-them at this point.
+ADES solar and energy-saving cookers significantly reduce wood and coal consumption. Solar cookers heat food using only the power of the sun. Energy-saving cookers reduce fuel consumption by 50 to 80 percent, depending on use.
-===ADES vision===
-ADES has the vision that within 20-40 years a large part of the population in Madagascar will predominantly be using solar cookers to prepare their food. Every year an increasing number of stoves are planned to be be distributed. In 2011 they distributed 6,642 cookers (1,460 of these were solar cookers). In 2012 it was 11,200 stoves. In 2013 it is estimated to be 15,000 to 20,000 total units.
+''- Education and awareness-raising''
-ADES has three center in Madagascar (Tulear, Morondava, Ejeda) and an offshoot in Andavadoka (near Morombeé) where they construct and do outreach in solar cooking. In 2008, they sold 1,500 solar ovens. Manufacturing is well organized, but promotion is tougher as it takes a lot of training to get the women to give up their traditional fire for cooking. ADES is in the process of developing various programs such as "women teaching women" and environmental education in the schools.
+For a long-term improvement of the situation in Madagascar, ADES uses education and sensitisation measures to make the population more sensitive to nature. Resellers are helped to build up a financial livelihood. Specially trained staff teach environmental education to schoolchildren and enable teachers to integrate environmental education into their lessons.
-[[File:Mada_Karte_Zentren_nicole.jpg|thumb|none|500px|ADES locations within Madgascar]]
+''- Reforestation''
-==News and recent developments==
-[[File:ADES_school_canteen,_3-4-13.jpg|thumb|300px|The recently finished school canteen is serving solar cooked lunches to 245 school children.]]
-*'''March 2013:''' Continuing with their holistic community approach, ADES began a program last November to place [[Sun Oven]]s and [[fuel-efficient woodstove]]s into a new local school canteen they helped to build. Now, 245 school children receive a warm meal once a day.
+ADES is reforesting at six locations in Madagascar (as of 2022). One focus is on the Ejeda region, where projects are implemented together with local village communities. In the highlands and at other locations, ADES works together with reforestation partner organisations. In 2021, about 120,000 trees were reforested in this way.
-*'''November 2012: ADES from 2001 to 2012''' - ADES started its solar cooking program in [[Madagascar]] in 2001 with a small carpentry shop under a party tent, two motivated carpenters and an instructress. Today we operate six centres with manufacturing facilities, a new sales point in Antananarivo, the capital and a coordination centre in Tuléar. ADES actually employs 85 persons and additionally created about 50 jobs in external enterprises. On average a family of 20 people is living off the salary of one employee. ADES is a socially sustainable employer. All the children of our employees go to school at our expense and the families are covered by health insurance. For each solar cooker sold we have two trees planted in a reforestation project in Madagascar. Read [[Media:Madagascar ADES Update 2012.pdf|ADES from 2001 to 2012]] to find out more and see photographs of our facilities, products, and activities.
+'''Organisation'''
-[[File:ADES_box_cooker_(with_PV)_6-29-11.jpg|thumb|300px|The [[ADES]] team introduces the new [[Electro Solar Cooker]], with photovoltaic panels to the public in [[Madagascar]].]]
-*'''June 2011''' The team of the [[ Association pour le Développement de l'Energie Solaire ]] (ADES) in [[Madagascar]] gathered last Saturday in Baar to unpack a novel solar cooker at the anniversary celebration of ADES. The [[Electro Solar Cooker]] comes with built-in photo cells and batteries to also provide power for lights, radios, and cell phone recharging, besides being an efficient [[solar box cooker]]. "This will make a sensation," says [[Regula Ochsner]], founder of ADES. Especially valuable, is that the know-how transfer has gone the other way around for once: Madagascar supplies to Europe. Regula was enthusiastic but also a bit scared before the expected rush to the newest generation of solar cookers: "Can we handle the logistics as well?" This is the first time the latest prototype solar cooker has been presented to the general public, and it has happened in Madagascar. The work of ADES and its founder, Regula Ochsner from Ottenbach have received numerous awards, including the Swiss Solar Prize (2007), the Doron Prize (2008) or the price of the Brandenberger Foundation. The 10-year anniversary provides an opportunity to look back. Renewable energies point to the future. The event is even more poignant this year, in light of the tragedy in Fukushima. The non-profit organization has been committed to ADES in Madagascar for the past ten years to preserve the unique flora and fauna and promote sustainable cooking methods. In 2001, under the scorching sun in Madagascar, and under a party tent, the first solar cooker assembled. Today ADES employs around a staff of sixty. Countries with the use of solar and energy-saving stoves have already saved around 30,000 hectares of dry forest from logging. ADES first introduced solar cookers in order to reduce the deforestation of the dry forests, but now, in conjunction with solar cookers use, energy-efficient stoves have helped reduce wood consumption by up to 65%. See photos of the celebration at: [[Media:ADES_10_Jähriges_Jubiläums_Fest.pdf|ADES 10-year anniversary celebration, 25th June 2011]]
+ADES is organised as a swiss association and its General Assembly is the highest body. The Board of Directors, which works free of charge, determines the strategic direction and appoints the management. ADES maintains an office in Mettmenstetten. The tasks of the office include operational management, financing of the overall project as well as communication and awareness raising in Switzerland and other countries. The Madagascar Directorate reports directly to the Executive Board in Switzerland. It carries out operational activities in Madagascar on behalf of the ADES association.
-[[File:PhotoE.jpg|thumb|ADES employs over 30 local trainers and carpenters in three communities, including carpenters hand-crafting wooden solar box cookers in Tulear (photo: ADES)]]
-[[File:PhotoF.jpg|thumb|Parabolic cookers and solar box cookers can work in a complementary fashion to meet a variety of cooking needs (photo: ADES) ]]
+As of 2021, ADES is active in all 22 regions of Madagascar. ADES maintains 8 centres, eight branches and three motorised ADES Mobiles, which reach out to the population away from urban centres. ADES has created 240 jobs in Madagascar (as of September 2022).
-*'''January 2011:''' [[Media:ADES-Rapport-Dez2010.pdf|ADES 2010 annual report (German version)]]
-*'''April 2010:''' Since 2001, ADES has been making and selling solar cookers in the southwestern part of Madagascar, providing much-needed cooking alternatives as well as employment for over 30 local carpenters and trainers. In 2003, ADES built its first permanent solar cooker construction workshop in Tulear. A second construction workshop was established in Ejeda in 2006, followed in 2008 by a workshop in Morondava. Each of these regional centers also has sales and demonstration offices. Future plans include development of a fourth regional center in Anosy or Antandroy, and the creation of two or three local branches within each region to reduce transportation distances and increase outreach capacity. According to ADES, southwestern Madagascar experiences about 330 sunny days per year and is a nearly ideal region for solar cooking. However, per capita income in Madagascar is only about $400 per year, making it difficult for families to afford solar cookers and spend their meager income on a technology they are not familiar with. Rising firewood and charcoal costs over the past few years are making solar cookers comparatively more affordable, but still out of reach for many. Subsidies have mostly come from donors in Switzerland and a handful of awards. The Madagascar government has provided some additional support, partnering with ADES to promote renewable energy in Tulear. Hand-crafted wooden [[solar box cooker]]s, produced locally for upwards of $200 each, are sold at a subsidized price of just over $20. These cookers reach temperatures of up to 150°C, and are commonly used to cook rice, various root vegetables, meat, fish, bread, and cakes. Metal [[parabolic solar cooker]]s are assembled locally for about $160 each, from aluminum and steel parts made by another local organization at an already subsidized price. The parabolic cookers are then sold at a subsidized price of about $50. These cookers reach even higher temperatures, but require stirring of food and more frequent adjustments to track the sun. They are particularly useful for frying, and can work in a complementary fashion with solar box cookers. Both cookers come with 7-year warranties. By the end of 2009, ADES had sold 4,640 solar cookers. It hopes to ramp up its outreach and sales capacity with funding from carbon credit offsets.
+The association is financed by donations and membership fees. Since 2011, ADES energy-saving cookers have been certified by The Gold Standard, enabling ADES to gain another financial foothold through the sale of CO2 certificates. In 2021, 53 per cent came from the sale of certificates.
-[[Image:ADES_-_Solar_cookers_built_in_local_workshops_-_March_2008.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Solar cookers are built in local workshops...]]
-[[Image:ADES_-_Solar_cookers_solar_at_market_-_March_2008.jpg|300px|right]|thumb|...sold in local markets...]]
-[[Image:ADES_-_Solar_cookers_carried_home_-_March_2008.jpg|right|300px|thumb|...and carried home by happy customers.]]
-*'''March 2008:''' {{GoogleLinkFromGerman|http://www.adesolaire.org/pdf/Jahresbericht2007.pdf|Geschäftsbericht 2007}} 2007 Annual Report
-*'''July 2008:''' {{GoogleLinkFromFrench|http://www.madagascar-tribune.com/Un-four-solaire-ADES-sauve-22,7436.html|Un four solaire ADES sauve 22 tonnes de bois|Madagascar Tribune}}
+=={{HeadingNews}}==
-*'''June 2008:''' [http://www.pressebox.de/pressemeldungen/tritec-international-ag/boxid-185917.html TRITEC finances the 1st Solar Village in Madagascar] - ''PresseBox''
+*'''November 2021''' - [https://2021.orgimpactawards.org/2021-oia-winners/ ADES wins ADES wins the category "overcoming climate change" and the main prize "organisation of the year" at the international .ORG Impact Awards].
+=={{HeadingDocuments}}==
-*'''October 2007:''' Swiss Solar Award 2007 goes to ADES. In recognition of the achieved results, ADES is being awarded the Swiss Solar Award 2007 in the category Persons/Institutions. Furthermore, ADES is nominated for the European Solar Award. This is a great honor and recognition for us. For further information see Press Releases in [http://www.adesolaire.org/pdf/Pressemitteilungzursolarpreisverleihung.doc German] and in [http://www.adesolaire.org/pdf/communiquedepresseprixsolairesuisse.doc French].
+*'''2002:''' [https://ades-solaire.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ADES-annual-report-2021-EN-low-res.pdf ADES Annual Report for 2022]
-*'''March 2007:''' [[Regula Ochsner]], president of ADES, has been aewarded the international "Women of the Earth Award" by the [http://www.yves-rocher-fondation.org/UK/index.html Yves Rocher Foundation]. The award ceremony took place on March 8 2007 at the Institute of France in Paris and was attended by French Minister for the Environment, Nelly Olin, Jacques Rocher, Director of the Yves Rocher Foundation for the environment and Gabriel de Broglie, Chancellor of the Institute of France. Ochsner plans to invest the prize money of €10,000 in a further solar cooker pilot project in the south of Madagascar.
-==See also==
-*'''November 2012:''' [[Media:Madagascar ADES Update 2012.pdf|ADES from 2001 to 2012]]
-*'''December 2008:''' [[Media:ADES Fotodokumentation Dezember 2008.pdf|Photographs of the ADES projects]]
-*'''March 2008:''' {{GoogleLinkFromFrench|http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/solarcooking/images/5/58/ADES_Project_Description_-_March_2008.pdf|Descriptif du projet}}
-*'''2006:''' [[Media:ADES Madagascar Project.pdf|Madgascar Solar Cooker Project report]]
-*[[Heinz Vetter]]
-*[[Electro Solar Cooker]]
-{{clr}}
+==The products that ADES manufactures and sells==
+[[File:ADES_Produktepalette_2_Mai_2013.jpg|none|500px]]
 ==Audio and video==
+*'''2021'''
-[[File:Solar Cookers - Saving Madagascar's Forests Global 3000|thumb|400px|none]]
+[https://youtu.be/_R2xGjnO-oo ADES: Sustainably effective for Madagascar!]
-[[Video:vu du ciel - ADES - charbon et fours solaires.mpg|none|400px|]]
-{{clr}}
-==External links==
-*'''2007:''' [http://www.adesolaire.org/pdf/Jahresbericht2007.pdf Annual Report]
 ==Contact==
-[[Regula Ochsner]]<br />
+Luc Estapé<br />
-Co-President ADES<br />
+General Manager<br />
-Lanzenstr. 18<br />
+IM Grindel 6<br />
-Ottenbach<br />
+Mettmenstetten<br />
 [[Switzerland]]
-Tel. +41 (0)44 761 20 61
+Tel. +41 44 466 60 50
-[mailto:patchankaa@yahoo.fr patchankaa@yahoo.fr]<br />
-http://www.adesolaire.org
+Email: [mailto:info@adesolaire.org info@ades-solaire.org]<br />
+Web: [http://www.adesolaire.org http://www.ades-solaire.org]
 [[Category:NGOs]]
 [[Category:Switzerland]]
 [[Category:Madagascar]]
 [[Category:Manufacturers and vendors]]
-[[Category:Solar Cookers World Network members]]
 [[Category:NGOs employing carbon credits]]
+[[Category:Verified active 2024]]