The Alliance has compiled some of the most useful information about the cookstoves and fuels sectors to populate this searchable database, including market assessments, consumer behavior and preference information, and other research studies. The database will be updated frequently as we continue to build our knowledge database, and as always we appreciate our partners’ input. If you have any reports or research to add to this database, please send it to knowledge@cleancookstoves.org
Alliance Reports and Research, Gender, Other | | Released on
June 10, 2012
Many people do not purchase products that appear beneficial. For example, the price of an efficient cookstove can be less than a few months’ savings on fuel. If liquidity constraints, present bias, and poor information on fuel savings and stove durability are barriers, then a novel sales offer combining a free trial, time payments, and the right to return the stove at any time should increase sales. In a randomized trial, this sales offer increases sales of an efficient charcoal-burning stove in Kampala, Uganda, from 5% to 45%. We provide additional evidence that both liquidity constraints and imperfect information were important barriers.
Alliance Reports and Research, Health, Livelihoods, Gender, Environment, Other | USAID and Winrock International | Released on
June 10, 2012
Winrock, in collaboration with Concern Worldwide Bangladesh and the Village Education Resource Center (VERC), implemented the Bangladesh pilot project from 2005-2007 in selected wards Beginning in 2003, the energy team of USAID’s Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade, and the environmental health team of the Bureau for Global Health jointly supported a cooperative agreement with Winrock International to develop models to reduce indoor air pollution by combining fuel-efficient cooking technologies with behavior change messages and market-based distribution mechanisms. Winrock developed two project models: a rural model piloted in the highlands of Peru for indigenous communities, and a peri-urban model piloted in Bangladesh for poor households.
The objective of the pilot project was to reduce indoor air pollution and fuel consumption via the dissemination and commercialization of efficient cookstoves among peri-urban communities through an integrated and sustainable household energy intervention. The project aimed to establish a sustainable market for improved and appropriate stoves to avoid the need for subsidies, either current or future. Three models of fuel-efficient cookstoves, each significantly less polluting than traditional stoves, were selected and promoted in this project. Winrock coupled product promotion with a multi-faceted communication campaign to raise awareness about the risks of indoor smoke and the benefits of behavior change and using improved stoves to reduce IAP exposure. The project team worked with existing local government institutions and health networks to disseminate behavior change messages, and teamed up with local entrepreneurs to disseminate stoves commercially. The project has strong potential for use as a model for incorporating IAP into child survival and health programming activities, particularly those implemented by donor agencies such as the USAID/Bangladesh Mission.
Alliance Reports and Research, Livelihoods, Environment, Other | CARE Danmark, Danish Energy Agency, ENERGICA | Released on
June 10, 2012
The overall objective of the assignment is to collect sufficient information to allow for an assessment and decision by CARE and the Danish Energy Agency on project focus and scope of a CDM Program of Activities on improved cook stoves project in Northern Ghana.
Alliance Reports and Research, Other | EnterpriseWorks/VITA, Shell Foundation | Released on
June 10, 2012
EnterpriseWorks/VITA is promoting a Kenyan
sourced alternative called the Gyapa (meaning ‘good
fire’) stove which is produced in three sizes. A ceramic
liner improves fuel-efficiency by up to 50% and the
stoves are marketed with the slogan ‘it’s already cooked’. This article describes the program and related marketing campaign.
Alliance Reports and Research, Livelihoods, Other | The World Bank | Released on
June 9, 2012
The objective of this study is to identify lessons for
improving cookstoves in Bangladesh through an
evaluation of existing programs, the international
experience on improved stoves, and the lessons
from successes in the sanitation sector.
Bangladesh’s new Renewable Energy Policy
endorses creating a better environment for
renewable energy technologies and promoting
market development for improved cookstoves
(Government of Bangladesh 2009). This study
supports this policy direction by examining
possible strategies to move forward the
development of markets for improved stoves in
Bangladesh.
The study consists of several components: a
national review of household energy programs;
an evaluation of national sanitation programs;
and an examination of improved cookstove
programs from around the world, including China,
Guatemala, Haiti, Mongolia, Nepal, and Uganda.
The study is based on published literature,
consultations with organizations throughout
Bangladesh, site visits, and structured discussions
with beneficiaries and other stakeholders. In
addition, key informants, such as entrepreneurs,
community mobilizers, field-level staff, and local
government representatives, were consulted
through semistructured interviews.
