[Stoves] SNV results in Camaroon including TLUD issues

[Ronal W. Larson]

Crispin:

	If it is difficult to send a chart or two, could you identify the Cecil Cook nine variables?

Ron



On Mar 6, 2014, at 1:43 AM, ajheggie at gmail.com wrote:

> [Default] On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:21:08 -0500,Crispin Pembert-Pigott
> <crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Acceptance of the stove for non-technical reasons is the major course of
>> programme failure. We should not beat around the bush. Social acceptability
>> can be assessed using Cecil Cook's 9 dimensions, which he likes to put in a
>> spider chart with 5 (best/acceptable) in the centre and 1 at the outside
>> edge.  The dots are connected producing a 'web'.  Highly acceptable stoves
>> have the points (scores) clustered in the centre with perhaps some outlying
>> arms here and there. Poorly accepted stoves have a large diameter web mostly
>> traced around the periphery. 
> 
> Crispin, a picture  would help, maybe of one chart of a poorly
> accepted stove and one of a highly accepted on using Cecil's web.
> 
> To my mind this has always been the crux of propagating superior
> performing stoves in economically deprived communities, if we had been
> able to come up with a stove with vastly superior advantages it would
> have taken of just like the PC, Ipad or cell phone did in advanced
> economies.
> 
> AJH
> 
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