This document was developed as a training manual for people interested in various types of appropriate technologies related to improved cookstoves. The three types of cookstoves included in the manual are earthen, ceramic, and metal (or a combination of metal and ceramic). The training sessions described deal with: (1) an orientation to the cookstove training program; (2) project documentation; (3) trainee working styles and skills inventory; (4) the fuel wood crisis and improved cookstoves; (5) appropriate education and the learning process; (6) socio-cultural and technical considerations; (7) survey and assessment; (8) stove combustion theory; (9) hypothetical stove design; (10) earthen stove design and soil analysis; (11) earthen stove construction; (12) introduction to ceramics; (13) ceramic stove design; (14) ceramic stove construction; (15) ceramic stove curing and firing; (16) project design and proposal preparation; (17) metal stove design; (18) metal stove construction; (19) cooking on cookstoves; (20) cookstove business development; (21) diagnosis and repair of cookstoves; (22) testing and monitoring cookstove performance; (23) cookstove project presentations; (24) traditional and improved cookstove banquet; and (25) training program evaluation. A glossary is included. (TW)