Five Stars Stoves Bangladesh, started as a concern IVDS is a sustainable answer to clean cooking using solid fuels. 3 billion people on the planet and 30 million households in Bangladesh use wood and other biomass to cook. IVDS has been working with Improved Cook Stoves (ICS) in Kishoreganj, Narshingdi, Comilla, Narayanganjsatkhira districts of Bangladesh since 2008 through Five Star Stoves Bangladesh. Within 2013 it formed alliance with giz, Siddiqi sanitation, Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCISR) and distributed around 10,000 stoves among rural households.

In 2013, IVDS obtained membership of Global Alliance For Clean Cook Stoves (GACC) and Catalyzing Clean Energy in Bangladesh (CCEB) USAID. In that time, Executive board of IVDS decided to establish an independent business wing for ICS program. In the general meeting Executive named that business wing as 5 Star Stoves Bangladesh. In 2015, Five Star Stoves Bangladesh obtained Membership from Household Energy Platform (HEP) Bangladesh under Sustainable And Renewable Energy Development Authority (SREDA) Ministry of Power and Energy, government of Bangladesh. 5 Star Stoves Bangladesh was enlisted as partner organization (PO) of Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL) and since then 5 Star Stoves Bangladesh is working for the dissemination of clean cook stove program under Ministry of Finance, government of Bangladesh.

Orientation on 5 Starts Stoves Hub Operation

This course is open for those who have been selected as 5 Stars Stoves HUB entrepreneures.