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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-US">I agree very much with
Crispin and AJH that social acceptability is one of the most
important aspect of getting ICS to work in practice.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-US">However I have some
reservations about the SNV test in Cameroon.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-US">We know that
requirements
towards stoves differs very much from area to area. When test
are
done by taking different stoves from different countries and
testing
these stoves without modifications so these stoves meet the
requirements of the area of testing, as seems to be the case in
this
testing. Then these stoves will likely fall short of
requirements. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-US">This will especially be
the case of batch stoves like gasification stoves that often
have
special requirements for fuel. If cooking time in the new area
are
different from what the batch stove can provide, then there will
be
problems. It is therefore important that stoves is modified and
adapted towards the requirements of the area before it is
tested.</p>
<span lang="en-US">I therefore find it unfair that the</span>
Mwoto gasification stove <span lang="en-US">get
such negative review.</span>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span lang="en-US">We also know that
it
takes time for households and cooks to get used to new stoves
and
cooking method. So by only allowing test households one week
to test
a stove and even asking the same households to test 5
different
stoves for one week each. For me such testing procedure seems
likely
to give some bias in the testing process.</span>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span lang="en-US">Bjarne Laustsen</span>
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On 3/6/2014 11:43 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ajheggie@gmail.com">ajheggie@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">[Default] On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:21:08 -0500,Crispin Pembert-Pigott
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:crispinpigott@outlook.com"><crispinpigott@outlook.com></a> wrote:
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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.
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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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Bjarne Laustsen
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Kiwia & Laustsen Limited
P.O. Box 285
Karatu, Tanzania
phone +255 787295684</pre>
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