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rural areas with agricultural activities. No significant differences appear between the districts that are all characterized by internal heterogeneity: planned and unplanned areas, individual and vertical housing, rich and poor areas.Most resi- dential areas of these districts are occupied by houses built according to the traditional Afghan pattern in mud or cooked bricks, with flat roofs, one to three living rooms, a yard, and the house facing south whenever possible. Therefore, 75%ofthehousesinthesethreedistrictsmatchGERES’ technicalrequirementsfor the construction of verandas (South-oriented houses, no direct obstruction and shadow,more than3m in front of the house). Thewintermonitoring lasted foranoverallperiodof8weeks, from5December 2013 to5February2014. Twogroups of houses are classifiedby type: • Type1:Control group–Houses not equippedwith the verandaPSHsystem • Type2:Treatment group–Houses equippedwithverandaPSHsystem Toassess the impactof thePSHtechnology,13housesofType2equippedwith the PSHare comparedwith 13 houses of Type 1 selected as a control group. The housewere strictly selected using theSEADEPdatabase according the number of heated family room(onlyhouseswithone family roomwere selected), its size and orientation, the household socio-economic profile and energy consumption prac- tices criteria. The house construction planswere survey byGERES technician to insure an unbiased comparison between the two groups of houses. Both PSHand Fig. 10.1 ThePassiveSolarHouse (PSH) technology inKabul 10 IntegratingAvoidedEmissions inClimateChangeEvaluationPolicies for. . . 175