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This panel will provide an overview of how different organizations and research groups are defining and measuring adoption of clean cooking solutions. Topics will range from defining access to clean cooking, to assessing stove stacking in a household, to evaluating impacts via market measurement, and other tools. Participants will get insight into the various factors […]

In order to serve as effective mechanisms for shifting the cookstove market to better technologies, standards cannot just be documents that sit on a shelf but must be implemented through policies and/or labeling programs. Panelists in this session will offer lessons on how they evaluated both markets and consumers to identify the most suitable standards […]

Results-based finance can be used by the clean cooking sector to kickstart new markets, as well as help reach the poorest of the poor. This session will look at various new initiatives that are aimed at increasing access to results-based financing in the cookstoves and fuels sector. The panel will discuss access to pre-finance to […]

Reaching the last mile is a key challenge for scaling up supply of cookstoves and fuels, particularly in rural settings. This session will look at a variety of distribution models used by Alliance partners and include a discussion of success stories, challenges, and lessons learned, which cookstove and fuel implementers can then apply to their […]

This panel is an interactive session to demo and showcase the best practices and latest tools for tracking and monitoring stove use meant for a non-technical audience. Presenters will demonstrate each tool’s ability, cost, ease of use, etc., so that practitioners gain an understanding of the various options available for monitoring stove use. Participants will […]

Financing to the end user remains a barrier to the sale and adoption of clean and efficient cooking solutions in many markets. This session will hear from cookstove and fuel practitioners that have piloted internal asset financing programs in the past few years with varied degrees of success. The audience will learn the structure of […]

In the last five years, the cookstove and fuel sector has seen growth in the number of production facilities, contributing to increased supply of clean and efficient cooking technologies in the market. However, during this period of scale up, quality control for optimal performance and use can present a challenge. In this session, participants will […]

The Alliance’s Pilot Innovation Fund (PIF) provides grants of up to $150K to finance game changing technology and business model innovations. One of the key objectives of PIF is to share lessons regarding the successes and challenges in implementing these projects with the broader sector. Panelists during this session will exchange their insights from the […]