Mainstreaming Gender in the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

ENERGIA Practitioners and Policy Meet

December 13, 2011

Corinne HartProgram Manager, Gender and Markets

• 3 billion people still cook on traditional or open fire stoves fueled by biomass, and 2m die annually from smoke exposure

• Women cook and are disproportionately affected • Personal security at risk when out collecting fuel• Health risks such as pneumonia, heart and lung disease, burns

• Opportunity costs are high• High levels of drudgery – labor intensive and dangerous activities • Time saved and/or better quality time• Children could be in school

• Environment is impacted and climate change exacerbated • Deforestation, soil erosion, food insecurity

The Situation Today

• Development of new stove technologies

• Private sector interest in Base of Pyramid

• Convergence of players and new approaches

• Availability of innovative carbon and micro financing

• Strong empirical evidence on health and environmental effects

• Ownership and excitement at national country level

Old Issue, Renewed MomentumWhy Now?

Photo Credit: Sunil Lal Photo Credit: E+Co Photo Credit: GTZ Photo Credit: Nigel Bruce

The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is an innovative public-private partnership to create a thriving global market for clean and efficient cookstoves and fuels.

Save Lives

ImproveLivelihoods

Empower Women

Combat Climate Change

The Alliance

Vision Universal adoption of clean and efficient cooking solutions

Key Milestone

 100 million households adopt clean

and efficient stoves and fuels by 2020 

The Alliance has over 240 Partners

Denmark

Finland

Germany

Ireland

Malta

Netherlands

Norway

Spain

United Kingdom

United States

Donor Countries Private Sector Donors NGO Donors National Partners

BangladeshBurkina Faso CambodiaColombiaEl SalvadorEthiopiaGuatemalaKenyaLesotho NigeriaRwandaTanzaniaPeruViet NamUganda

End Phase3 2018-20 Key Message for Phase

3

The Need for an Alliance

• Lack of comprehensive vision and strategy to address household cooking energy issues at scale

• Limited awareness of the issue by high level policy makers, donors, private sector players

• Inadequacy of funding in the sector particularly when compared to resources committed to comparable issues (e.g. lack of electricity, clean water, malaria, AIDS, TB.)

• A wide range of complex barriers and inefficiencies that require a coordinated, cross-sectoral response

Igniting Change – A Strategy toward Universal Adoption of Clean Cookstoves

350+ experts

11 Working Groups

Report released!

Igniting Change:A Strategy for Universal Adoption of Clean Cookstoves and Fuels

StrengthenSupply

Fostering an Enabling

Environment

EnhanceDemand

• Finance clean cookstovesand fuels businesses at scale• Access carbon finance• Build an inclusive value chainfor clean cookstoves and fuels• Gather better market intelligence• Ensure access for vulnerable populations

• Promote international standards and rigorous testing protocols• Champion the sector to build awareness• Further document the evidence base (health, climate, and gender)• Engage national and local stakeholders• Develop credible monitoring and evaluation systems

• Understand and motivatethe user as customer• Reach the last mile• Finance the purchase ofclean cookstoves and fuels• Develop better cookstovetechnologies and a broadermenu of options

Sector Strategies for Success

Alliance – Phased Approach and Value Proposition

End Phase3 2018-20 Key Message for Phase

3

Catalyze Sector and Broker Partnerships

Enable Markets

Champion the Issue

Mobilize Resources

Promote International Standards

Coordinate Sector Knowledge and Research

Phase 1 2012-14Define and rapidly

grow sector

Phase 2 2015-17 Clean Cookstoves a

global priority

Phase 3 2018-20 A sustainable market for clean cookstoves

Focus Countries

Active Countries

Partner Countries

Country Level Engagement will be critical to sustainable success

Alliance Role Likely Target Countries

Transformative, likely to require engagement 3+ years,

multiple intervention strategies and actions

East Africa Region (Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda), Bangladesh, Viet Nam

‘Surgical’ intervention, likely 1- 3 years of engagement, extrapolation of learnings

applicable to other partners

China, India, Indonesia, Ghana, Nigeria, Guatemala, Mexico (Brazil?, Cambodia? Peru?)

Sharing of knowledge, practices, country tool kits,

brokering partnerships amongst actors

All other partner countries

A robust data driven approach has been utilized to prioritize countries

•Health impact (as % of total deaths)

•Relevance to other countries (in region and beyond)

•Environmental impacts (deforestation, desertification, biodiversity, and air pollution)

•Potential Indicators for Gender / Livelihoods

Potential Impact (25%)

•Households Affected

•Extent of Current Market Activity (stoves being sold, potential market, etc)

•Structure of Potential Consumer Financing (MFIs, credit unions, etc)

•Political will, governance / flag instability, ease of doing business

•Lessons from Past or Present National Cookstove Programs

Scalability / Potential Contribution to 100 M

(25%)

•Traditional market-based approach in this sector and others

•Active implementing partners

•Potential implementing partners

•Current National Cookstove Programs

Opportunity to Test Innovative Business Models (25%)

•Donor priority / interest

•Partner activities

•Complementary UNF programming

Leveraging Other Resources (12.5%)

•% of Solid Fuel Use

•Rural Population

•Income per day (USD)

•Large humanitarian presence

Greatest Need (12.5%)

Mainstreaming Gender in the Alliance • Gender focal point • Gender Cross-Cutting Committee • Define and distribute gender-informed best practices

for stove businesses• If appropriate, gender requirements in RFPs• Gender baseline assessments in focus countries • Gender action planning for Alliance and partners • Specific partner engagement strategies for

organizations focused on gender and empowerment • Gender-informed M&E (sex disaggregated data,

gender-sensitive methodologies, etc.)

Mainstreaming Gender Throughout Alliance’s Phase 1 Priorities

Enhance Demand Strengthen Supply Foster Enabling Environment

Research Customer Behavior and Segmentation

Conduct Detailed Market Assessments in ‘Focus’and ‘Active’ countries Finalize Interim Stove Ratings System

(ISRS) and work towards Globally-recognized (likely ISO) Standards

Enhance capacity and number of stove testing and improvement facilitiesStove Social-Marketing

Fund two pilots to test and strengthen inclusive supply-chain models, with a focus on women entrepreneurs. Fund three capacity-building orgs. to strengthen existing stove value-chains

Increase Consumer Finance Opportunities

Work with SAFE Task force to implement its recommendations

Pilot clean cookstove distribution with two humanitarian agencies

Constantly champion the sector through a wide range of profile-raising activities

Mobilize Resources and partnership in the sector

Health research studies

Multi-scale global mapping of default emissions factors and non-renewability of fuelwood

Alliance initiates two gender-related studies

Technology Innovation Fund Develop a Working Capital Fund for Stove Businesses

Pilot consumer adoption approaches for each of the Alliance three target segments

Identify Existing Innovative Distribution Models

Build awareness and recruit investors into clean cookstoves to enable scaled production – develop an investor marketplace microsite