INSTITUTIONAL PEAT STOVE PROGRAMME in BURUNDI Burundi Community Stove (BCSt.) A successful dissemination programme on institutional stoves has been introduced in Burundi / East Africa. The stove programme is connected to Projet Tourbe II, a multi-lateral cooperation between USAID, ONATOUR (Office National de la Tourbe) and the Irish Government. This is a project for the exploitation of peat (a kind of young coal) as an alternative fuel to wood. Around 800 tons of peat (la tourbe) per month have been sold in Burundi during the past few years in connection with the introduction of the new institutional stoves. As Burundi is a relatively small country (27.000km