[Stoves] Indonesia Clean Cooking: ESMAP Supports Innovative Approaches to Build the Local Cookstoves Market, Helps Increase Access

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

H/T L Durix

 

Dear Friends

 

Here is a report on the CSI-Indonesia stove project

 

https://www.esmap.org/node/57286

 

The ESMAP story in the E-bulletin provides a broad overview of the work done
over the last few years under the CSI. ESMAP is World-Bank based trust fund
and partnership focusing on the energy sector.

 

"Working with the Government of Indonesia, the World Bank launched the
Indonesia Clean Stove Initiative (Indonesia CSI) in early 2012, which
focused on the 25 million households that had not converted to LPG. One of
the program's goals was to create a thriving market for clean cookstoves,
something that previous programs implemented by NGOs and donors had failed
to do because they lacked scale and did little to involve the private
sector. While the CSI took into account known barriers, such as lack of
consumer awareness of available products, affordability of stoves, and weak
retail and institutional capacity, it also found that other sociocultural
factors, such as gender dimensions, cooking skills, type of foods cooked and
others, added more complexity to the decision to adopt clean cookstoves. The
key was to understand consumer preferences and adoption patterns and to
convince suppliers of the need to design clean stoves that met these
preferences rather than focusing on supply-side approaches to develop the
market."

 

"Efforts in these two provinces focused on three key components: 

 

An innovative stove subsidy approach. In order for the government to provide
market subsidies, cookstoves must meet pre-defined quality criteria.
Incentives for suppliers are intended to motivate them to produce
appropriately designed stoves, build enough stock to satisfy demand, and
promote continued adoption and distribution of stoves.  

Innovative stove testing. Information from social and gender research was
combined with technical data on stoves to develop stove testing methodology.
The combination of sociocultural and technical dimensions of clean cooking
in the testing provides more representative results and leads to better
decisions.

*        A market-based approach. While subsidies are provided to support
the market, incentives (e.g., making funding available based on stove
performance) are used to push the private sector to invest along the entire
value chain and carry some of the risks related to the adoption of
products."

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Regards

Crispin

 

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