[Stoves] How Results Based Financing is spurring solar market development in Tanzania

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Christina

 

We are actually implementing something close to that now – not so complicated by a junior version of your very good idea.

 

1)      Pass a minimum requirement of a lab test that met a certain standard. 

 

That is done using locally relevant cooking cycles.

      2) Perform an in-field test (independent of the organization) that met a requirement (emissions). 



That is not felt necessary because what is done in the lab is what people do in the field. They actually come and show us what they do and we measure it.

 

3.)    Once they passed both #1 and #2 the RBF would be granted to a Phase 1 small amount and stove use monitoring (SUMS) would be conducted on a number of stoves for 6 months.

 

We just pay 70% for selling it, and 30% of people are using it. The 30% is factored for the % of people who use it, not the % of time that they use it. This is because people have multiple stoves for various purposes. 

 

4) If the stove use monitoring reached a XX% of adoption over the period of time it would then qualify for Phase 2 funding through the RBF. (In order to continue some type of metrics SUMs montoring could be run on a certain percent of stoves to ensure adoption, or SUMs monitoring could continue after 6 months of initial use or follow up surveys after 1 year of usage).

That is a good idea, provided it manages to accommodate the fact that a home may have 7 stoves and only used them when they are appropriate. All 7 will be, we hope, improved stoves eventually. If the home only has 1 stove that would be easier.

 

Regards

Crispin

 

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