Energising Development-Improved Cooking Technology Funding under this initiative supports the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammernarbeit's (GIZ) Energising Development (EnDev) program to help reduce deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+) by providing alternate, modern cooking technologies in replacement of existing wood burning methods. Other expected outcomes from this initiative include: improved health as indoor biomass cooking smoke is strongly linked with respiratory disease mostly impacting women and children; and improved education and economic activities as time spent on collecting firewood reduces time spent in education or on income generating activities. The total value of this initiative is $20.0 million to be expensed during the 2011-12 financial year.