Review underway of enabling factors influencing the uptake by households of cleaner and more efficient household energy technologies, covering cleaner fuel and improved solid fuel cookstoves?
Dan Campbell
IDBG Cook Stove: Improving Efficiency and Environment of Rural Kitchens, RE Feature, Dec. 2011.
Sardar Patel Renewable Energy Research Institute, Anand has developed an Inverted Downdraft Biomass Gasifier cook stove which has the potential to bring about significant savings in fuel wood, improve the kitchen environment and mitigate the concerns of global warming. The laboratory testing of the IDBG cook stove revealed that its thermal efficiency is 10-15 per cent higher and emissions are within the limit set by MNRE for the biomass cook stoves. The village woman, who was provided with the IDBG stove, regularly used it for all cooking purposes even in the rainy season and endorsed its usefulness for meeting her cooking needs.
GERES GLOBAL SURVEY ON COOKSTOVE PROGRAMS’ NEEDS AND EXPERTISE
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GERES GLOBAL SURVEY ON COOKSTOVE PROGRAMS’ NEEDS AND EXPERTISE, JULY-AUGUST 2011
Released: December 2011
SURVEY METHODOLOGY AND THE RESPONDENT ORGANISATIONS
The survey was addressed to a variety of actors (NGOs, donors, humanitarian, private, and research institutions), who are or wish to be involved in the improved cookstove (ICS) programs around the world (focusing on South Asian, Southeast Asian and African stakeholders). The working group looked up the potential respondents’ contacts on available Internet databases and networks, but also gathered them from GERES employees’ personal contacts.
Enabling or limiting factors influencing the large scale uptake by households of cleaner and more efficient household energy technologies
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What are the enabling or limiting factors influencing the large scale uptake by households of cleaner and more efficient household energy technologies, covering cleaner fuel and improved solid fuel cookstoves? A systematic review.Protocol. London: EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London
Elisa Puzzolo, Debbi Stanistreet, Daniel Pope, Nigel Bruce and Eva Rehfuess
Objectives of the systematic review
The main objective of this systematic review is to describe and assess the importance of different enabling or limiting factors that influence the large scale uptake by households of cleaner and more efficient household energy technologies. More specifically, this systematic review will:
- develop a framework for different categories of factors influencing large-scale uptake;
- provide a summary of existing knowledge relating to each of these categories, including interpretation of data through an equity lens; and
- set an agenda for essential primary research (stand-alone research or evaluations of current and future initiatives).
Using Augusto Boal-based theatre for development methods to mediate the introduction of fuel-efficient cook stoves
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Using Augusto Boal-based theatre for development methods to mediate the introduction of fuel-efficient cook stoves in Chajul, Guatemala: provoking action through an ethical intervention, October 2011.
by Bisping, Jason, Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER, 246 pages
This dissertation examines how theatre for development methods, developed and influenced by Augusto Boal, were employed to provide energy-oppressed people with opportunities to reflect and take action to improve their lives. Specifically, this research study examines two theatre for development interventions conducted in Chajul, Guatemala, where I worked with indigenous citizens of Chajul and a host nongovernmental organization, Limitless Horizons Ixil, to create theatre pieces that confronted people’s home energy-use habits, focusing, specifically, on the dangers of indoor air pollution caused by the use of open fires in homes. The first intervention occurred during a seven-day trip to Chajul in July 2009, and involved devising and staging an original play, “Life with a Cookstove/Life without a Cookstove,” that was presented to more than 300 community members.
The second intervention, which took place over ten days in June 2010, consisted of staging original theatre pieces in people’s homes around their open fires. In addition to using theatre as an educational tool, information was collected about people’s attitudes and behaviors related to indoor air pollution and cookstoves. Additionally, the theatre interventions gave people the opportunity to practice taking action to reduce dangers associated with indoor air pollution in their homes through the proposed use of cookstoves.