Contextual Design and Promotion of Clean Biomass Stoves
In 2012, five years after the start of Indonesia’s campaign to convert millions of households to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), the Indonesia Clean Stove Initiative (CSI) was launched by the country’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the World Bank. All new technologies, including sustainable energy solutions, are introduced into a social context that affects how readily they will be adopted and how theywill be used. This brief describes experience integrating technical and social aspects of clean cook stoves in Indonesia and lessons learned in embracing complexity and facing realities inthe field. The Indonesia CSI originally aimed at complete replacement of the traditional (baseline) stove and focused on wood-only users, following the conventional wisdom at the time that clean technologies described in the international literature on clean cooking, remainedpartly valid, other salient factors added complexity to the situationand posed more fundamental challenges: (i) cooking is not a standard task; (ii) LPG users and wood users are more similar than onemight think; (iii) biomass stove performance is context variable; (iv) cooks are clearly aware of the negative effects of smoke; (v) gender relations have to be taken into account; The Indonesia CSI was supported by a teamof social scientists thatincluded a sociologist,an anthropologist, and astatistician coordinatedby a senior social development specialist to bring context back to the core of the proposed actions. The key lessons from the analysis are as follows: (i) Women, who represent 96 percent of stove users, wantdirect, immediate, and concrete benefits from newstoves; (ii) A complex segmentation of fuel use appears, in which cooking tasks complement fuel availability and income askey variables; Indonesian cooks first want a stove that does the job: powerful, fast, and easy to ignite and operate. But durability, efficiency,and comfort during use also matter. Half of the households in Central Java use both wood and LPG, often for different cooking tasks and at different times of day.
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| Format: | Brief biblioteca |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Subjects: | biomass energy, clean stove initiative, climate change, household pollution, LPG, renewable energy, social intelligence, gender, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/10/26839656/contextual-design-promotion-clean-biomass-stoves-case-indonesia-clean-stove-initiative https://hdl.handle.net/10986/25129 |
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