Scale vs. Substance? Lessons from a Context-responsive Approach to Marketbased Stove Development in Western Kenya

Sesan, Temilade

2014

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Improved stoves targeted at the 2.6 billion people worldwide that use solid biomass for cooking have not been taken up in the numbers expected by donors and practitioners. Following widespread critique of the subsidy-based dissemination models popular in the 1970s and 1980s, donors have begun to emphasise the potential of market-based models to increase stove adoption rates. In analysing the USEPA project implemented by Practical Action in western Kenya, this paper examines how a market-based approach has translated in the kind of informal economy operated by many biomass-reliant communities. The paper concludes that a context-responsive approach is likely to facilitate the dissemination of locally appropriate interventions, but it may not always be compatible with mainstream visions of largescale stove deployment. The paper can be found on pages 60-63 of the proceedings of the conference "Innovating Energy Access for Remote Areas: Discovering Untapped Resources" which took place from 10-12 April 2014 in Berkeley, USA.

Proceedings of the conference "Innovating Energy Access for Remote Areas: Discovering Untapped Resources" 2014

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