5StarSisters for clean cooking solution

1.over 90%of Household use wood &traditional stoves for cooking. They have less access-to affordable Clean cooking technology.Rural women are unaware that traditional Inefficient wood based cooking contribute to Climate and Air-pollution leadingto premature mortality deaths& respiratory diseases,damage environment and increase deforestation.

2.5StarStoves is a cloud-based Service Provided Biomas green-fuel based CleanCooking Solution  company focused on to save health,money,time, earth and job-creation.It works with well-trained equipped service provided 300women entrepreneur &200 technicians  call 5StarSisters for sensitizing on behavior change-campaign to Clean-cooking &climate mitigation.It has developed a mobile-application to provide on demand info waste pickup. It's a platform which incentivizes proper waste disposal by rewarding individuals and households.

3.People  will get access to Green-Kitchen Technology&  not use firewood.Our biomass pellet-fuel is reliant on forestry/agricultural waste and so takes the pressure of logging of trees for firewood.Affordable efficient 5Star stoves &pellet fuel will help to reduce health hazard,save-fuel and support to achieve 12-SDG Goals.

Problem Statement:

Around 3-billion people on the planet and 32M households in Bangladesh less access to affordable Clean-cooking technology.Huge biomass waste produced in-rural Bangladesh create unhealthy environment and burn inefficiently for-cooking.  

 About 90%people are affected with various problems.So the practice is very important for all people.Yearly-140K Mother&child Died By IAP.

In2012,Government Bangladesh target of  CAP isto disseminate cookstoves to over 32m households  by2030. 

Environmental Aspect:

Bangladesh,a fast-growing economy in South Asia, is among the top 10 polluting countries .In recent year, renewable energy becomes hot around the world. As a typical renewable energy, biomass energy develops rapidly owing to their characteristics of renewable, low carbon, environment friendly.It contains little nitrogen and no sulfur,and the carbon emissions are close to zero.

Waste Management Aspect:

Per capita income has been rising along with the increase of GDP in Bangladesh. As such, the demands for production of consumable goods have also increased - resulting to the increased Biomass energy is a cleanCooking  resource usage. 

 #We manage our own value chain via our 5StarSisters agents and conduct sales door to door.Door to door collection service

#App based collection service by 5StarSisters

#Zero Waste Consultancy:We provide consultancy services to businesses on creating a zero waste production. 

we envisages setting up  a manufacturing unit clean cooking stoves & Pellet & Briquette Plant .300 women entrepreneur &200 technicians will be trained for sensitizing on behavior change campaign to climate mitigation activities, improving public health & Healthy kitchen  in Bangladesh. Our 5Star Ladies is the distribution channel we rely on to service our households.  

We provide a cost competitive solution to Household,Tea & Hotel/Resutant purchase rice briquettes from wholesale/retailer or directly form the briquettes manufacturer. Purchase cost of rice briquettes ranges from 10 to 14BDT/ Kg. Most of  households and tea seller are using homemade or brick cookstoves and some of them are using improved cook stoves. For Households the monthly consumption of briquettes ranges from 30 to 120kg whereas for tea stall it ranges from 70 to 600kg and for-restaurants 250 to 2400 kg. Most of the consumers were using wood fuel prior to switching to briquettes which are more reliable, less smoky, easier store and to transport compared to wood. Moreover, briquettes are available round the year.

Besides the use of Pellet in commercial boilers more economical than conventional fuel (coal/oil).This application may cover textile,lather,pharma,foodindustry and cancreate a colossal-demand for-Pellet to  large extent .

The proposal envisages setting up of a new industrial unit for manufacturing clean cooking stoves, Pellet & Briquette Plant.The project has been designed on the basis of 100-ton per day and 36000 ton per year of Pellet, Briquette and 105,000 unite of stoves per year.

As an energy service company we offer an expensive stove at a discounted cost and recoup the cost of the stove from a premium levied on the sale of the fuel.From the deposit the 5 StarSisters is paid a commission and then ongoing commission for the sale of pellets. This ensures that the customer service is incentivized and there is a decent sales incentive to mobilize a new value chain or distribution channel.

It is a platform which - 

• All manage our own value chain via our 5 Star Lady agents and conduct sales door to door.Incentivizes proper waste disposal by rewarding individuals and households.
• Educates the user regarding different facts and figures related to CleanCooking usage, consumption and how it affects the individual health and environment as a whole.

• Consumers subscribe to our service through 5StarSisters, save their Wastage's for us.
• We come take away their trash. Consumers earn reward Hubs in exchange .
• Consumers save reward Hubs, with which they avail discounts/gift cards. This creates INCENTIVE.
• The consumer is able to see detailed analytics about how his actions are saving the save health,money,time , earth and job creation by Clean Cooking Solution . This creates REINFORCEMENT

Collection Points:

1. Subscribed Bins

• Registered customers given basic bins
• Garbage will be collected from home directly on a weekly through our 5StarSisters

2. QR Code Bins

• Will be placed at strategic points around the city
• QR code to redeem points gained after putting in the bins.

Goal:

We believe that We envisage enabling rural community of Bangladesh by encouraging the use of green cooking solution,capable of providing protection for health, environment and food security.

So, our goal reflects:

• DRIVING consumer behavior change in actions towards the environment.
• EDUCATE consumers about the harmful effects so that they are remain more cautious about maintaining the waste management and Cleancooking  system properly.
• Achievement of 12-nos of SDG goals  

As a whole, we aim to - 

• Improve the environment by promoting waste recycling activities in the country
• Develop a community and an ecosystem towards the improvement of the  environment
• Create job opportunities by promoting the recycling of waste

We provide a pay to cook business model. This includes the provision of a micro gasification stove and energy pack at an affordable price and access to the non toxic clean fuel in the form of biomass Wastage's.

 we are trying to introduce is a new method of waste collection that not only collects waste by providing an incentive to the consumers but also creates a systematic way of  waste collection and educates the consumer regarding CleanCooking stoves usage and waste.

FreeFrom’s primary innovation is to bring tailored financial capacity building services to survivors, using technology. For us, filling such a huge gap demanded that we leverage technology to solve the problem

We can point out the innovation of our idea in 2 dimensions:

1. Process Innovation:

• Creating a formal way of Agro waste collection from individuals and households as well as business organizations maintaining a value based supply chain 5StarSisters.  

2. Product Innovation:

• App based agro waste collection for recycling through digitized bin system.
• Utilizing 3 common platforms for the collection purpose (App, Website & Offline SMS based service)

We are focusing on driving consumer behavior change in actions towards the Cleancooking environment.We have done extensive community-engagements to test the stove technology and gauge the opinion of women in the role as  StarSisters

We envisage enabling rural community of Bangladesh by encouraging the use of green cooking solution,capable of providing protection for health, environment and food security.For an overall view,refer to our slide deck at: https://prezi.com/o1a1ah6qwc4a and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JqXWy_JvWQ&feature=youtu.be

The project is design and developed base on ambitious vision and thoughtful planning and engagement with the local communities and stakeholders to develop a roadmap with national targets to scale up the use of energy saving cook stove. Many of the lessons will be replicable in other geographical rural regions of the Bangladesh. Project will contribute to the country’s Action Plan ( CAP) while enhancing community resilience to climate change and avoiding greenhouse gas emissions from household energy sector

Desired Change through our solution/activities:

• Educated Consumers -Knowledge provided to consumers through weekly or daily based push notification in the app. Will also be a separate section within the app and website.  
• Participation from the Consumers-Providing incentives so that they remain an integral and active part of the supply chain.No cost associated so that they remain motivated.
• Formal Waste Collection-Creating an app based systematized waste disposal and collection from the consumer level.Also creating a value chain at the secondary waste collection through affiliation and partnership. 

Short Term and Long-Term Outcomes:

• Proper utilization of Waste's disposal
• Economic-Gain
• Environmental Benefits
• Export-Potentials
• Awareness-created

·         1. the current number of people you’re serving =75750 Household past years

·         2. the number you’ll be serving in one year = 10000-25000 yearly 

·         3. the number you’ll be serving in five years = 425000 stoves next fivers

5StarStoves BD setup Goal for next year : Sufficient access to 75000HH (25000 TLUD stoves & 50000 ML insulation CC Stoves) Clean cooking solutions and household lightings at 10upazilas (Haors,costal) under 7districts and one pellet mills at Habiganj in Bangladesh

The proposal envisages setting up of a new industrial unit for manufacturing clean cooking stoves, Pellet & Briquette  at Lakhpur , Amlabo, Belabo under Narsingdi district. The project has been designed on the basis of 100-ton Pellet and 80ton Briguette per day and 36000 ton per year  and 75,000 unite of stoves   350 working days/year

5StarStoves BD setup Goal for next 5 year::

Stoves Manufacturing  & installed :75000x5=375000

Pellet Production & supply =35000x5=175000 ton

Pellet Production & supply =28000x5=14000 ton

We are aware that we are promoting a new approach to the clean cooking. It is only by changing that you come to different result. Our approach is environmentally sound, by making use of waste industrial, agricultural and forestry biomass, and so takes pressure off the natural forests.

Key Barriers:

• Changing the mindset of the individuals and households
• Human Resource management in terms of technical ability and operation
• Convincing the key partners associated with Bio-fuel Clean Cooking and waste management
• User Adoption
• Taking on a full value process is a risk as there are more externalities that could go wrong.
• User perception and cooking culture
• Long rolling black-outs of electricity supply affecting pellet production. Monsoon affecting pellet production with not enough stock piled.

To reduce risk we try and build in as much incentive as possible for our supply chain to ensure that we will be able to manage ourselves out our challenges and that our supply chainis incentivised to deliver at all cost

1. Mind-shift of Individuals & Households:

• By making them aware about the harmful effects  traditional Cooking & waste as well as the importance and urgency of proper waste management.
• Through incentives and reinforcement

2. Human Resource Management:

• Hiring the informal agents to ensure maximum collection along with our own collector
• Utilizing the unemployed workforce of Bangladesh in technical and operation force, and thus generating employment

 3. Partnership & Affiliation:

• Affiliating with the current working bodies at the root level in order to convince the formal regulatory bodies involved in policy making

IVDS & eSheBee Enterprises a renowned social enterprise dedicated to promote technology based women entrepreneurship in Bangladesh and India will provide technical know how for selecting, capacity building and business linkages of 5Star Sisters. 5STAR SISTERS take the pellets to the last customer mile. They market and service the stoves and make sure pellets are delivered. This is all managed from their mobile tablets. Collection of biomass feedstock around the sites opens up enterprising opportunities for local collectors or harvesters. The customer buys and pays for pellets via 5 Star Sister’s mobile phone. We have a fleet of delivery vehicles supporting the delivery of the pellets from the densification plant to the agent hubs and households. We use our backend system to performance manage the business and identify unproductive stoves and underperforming agents. It is managed out in line with the contractual stove user agreement. Our IT backend links the entire organization with the payments from the customers into orders and eventual deliveries and payments to the 5 Star Sisters. This allows us to identify issues early on a move quickly on corrective actions

IVDS & eSheBee Enterprises a renowned social enterprise dedicated to promote technology based women entrepreneurship in Bangladesh and India will provide technical know how for selecting, capacity building and business linkages of 5Star Sisters. 5STAR SISTERS take the pellets to the last customer mile. They market and service the stoves and make sure pellets are delivered. This is all managed from their mobile tablets. Collection of biomass feedstock around the sites opens up enterprising opportunities for local collectors or harvesters. The customer buys and pays for pellets via 5 Star Sister’s mobile phone. We have a fleet of delivery vehicles supporting the delivery of the pellets from the densification plant to the agent hubs and households. We use our backend system to performance manage the business and identify unproductive stoves and underperforming agents. It is managed out in line with the contractual stove user agreement. Our IT backend links the entire organization with the payments from the customers into orders and eventual deliveries and payments to the 5 Star Sisters. This allows us to identify issues early on a move quickly on corrective actions

Management

Our Board ofManagement and Advisory-Committee include eminent people who,as independent appointees,actively participate in the activities with the local community.

BOARD OF Management: SMM Kamal Bhuiyan,Founder  and Chairperson,Mushraat Jahan Fahmida-Co-Founder andManaging Director , Farzana Mofiz-Member,Iqbal Hossan-Member,Tanvir Hossain-Member   

ADVISORY COMMITTEE: D.Prof.MA Sattar,Mr.Zahhirul Islam &Meherun Nessa

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE:The committee meets monthly to review policies and take major decisions affecting the project’s operations.  

PROJECT MANAGER:Architect  Ms Mushraat Jahan Fahmida, the Project Director.He is  full-time worker overseeing the whole project.All members of the Management Committee and the core project team are full-time volunteers.

 Full-Time Staff =13

Part-Time =27

Volunteering=41 

1. Sk Mohaimen Hossain, CSCA: 

Being a Certified Supply Chain Analyst, he is well experienced and enthusiast in the supply chain and logistic side. He is looking after the supply chain department and feasibility of the business as well as focusing on the expansion plan.

2. Tanvir Hosain : 

A young entrepreneur and the CEO of his own comapny. He has been always enthusiastic in maintaining a big network all over the Bangladesh and trying to solve the untapped problem of the country. He is focusing on the international business & communication section of our idea.

3. Ms Sabikunnahar, CSCA: 

Being a Finance Graduate, he is keen about Business Intelligence and Operations. He is looking after the finance and business analysis of this business.

In 2015, Five StarStoves Bangladesh obtained Membership from Household Energy Platform (HEP) Bangladesh under Sustainable andRenewable Energy Development Authority (SREDA) Ministry of Power and Energy, government of Bangladesh. Since then won a range of recognition from SEED, SE4ALL, E4ALL, CTIPFAN in Africa & Asia other technical and social accolades.5 Star Stoves Bangladesh was awarded by Startup Bangladesh- & SREDA in 2017

We are considered as the
pioneer for ESCO cooking by E4ALL

As an energy service company we offer an expensive stove at a discounted cost and recoup the cost of the stove from a premium levied on the sale of the fuel. We require a 3 year commitment to repay the stove and investment in the service. From the deposit the sales agent is paid a commission and then ongoing commission for the sale of pellets. This ensures that the customer service is incentivized and there is a decent sales incentive to mobilize a new value chain or distribution channel.

  5 Star Ladies is the distribution channel we rely on to service our households. This is done from a mobile device. Once a 5 Star Lady recruits a household it offers an on-going revenue opportunity as she receives commission for the sales of the cooking unit and ongoing revenue for the sale of fuel pellets to the household.  . Our target price point is to provide a competitive cost to cook for the bottom of the LPG market, some kerosene and the top end of the wood burning market.

ESCO businesses are unfortunately capital intensive to set up and require scale to execute.    which reduces the capital ask. It allows us to change our current business model from manufacturing and sales of stoves only model to a more sustainable model of recurring revenue from the sales of pellets in a higher value market

Our main revenue source is the sales of biomass pellets as a fuel for the cook stoves. To drive pellet sales wewould need more stoves in the market or stoves which consume more pellets. We have a ready range of low
cost stoves for the small restaurant market, which can substantially increase pellet demand volume.Secondary would be to find more products to align to our distribution for secondary income

The new business model will be an addition to the existing stove programme manager for the IDCOL program
and so offer an existing backbone, without the risks of a new start-up.
Our aim is to achieve a 12 month payback on a stove investment and to use the repayment for recirculation in
our Reinvestment Fund, to allow us to continue offering the best technology at an affordable price

Our expertise is in the domestic  space. This is a movement that has not seen much innovation in the last few decades. Through SOLVE we hope to equip ourselves with all the knowledge, expertise, mentorship and guidance of the world’s best innovators, thinkers, and problem solvers to innovate this movement and build the structural capacity to support long-term safety for survivors. We are at an inflection point at which access to the right experts, funding opportunities and media exposure will have an exponential impact. 

The types of organizations that will help us accelerate our solution are:

• Those that specialize in design-thinking
• Tech developers
• Research entities
• Banks and credit card companies
• Marketing experts
• Impact validation experts
• Media companies