About the Project
The project aims to investigate how promoting multiple complementary, locally preferred Clean Cooking Technology (CCT) portfolios—both alone and integrated with NutriFuel Agroforestry (NFA)—affects climate mitigation outcomes (through reduced greenhouse gas emissions and increased carbon sequestration) and health outcomes (via reduced household air pollution exposure, improved respiratory health, and enhanced nutritional status).
Specific Objectives
Supporting Kenya’s Progress
The project will be implemented in Laikipia and Kiambu counties representing different agro-ecological zones and socioeconomic contexts. This integrated, evidence-based initiative will support Kenya’s progress toward Sustainable Development Goals related to food security, health, climate action, and energy access, while providing scalable models for addressing interconnected challenges through innovation and policy engagement.
Develop holistic, demand-driven interventions that acknowledge household fuel-stove stacking behaviour while expanding cleaner cooking options, addressing both structural barriers (technology access, financing, policy gaps) and socio-cultural-behavioural barriers (gender dynamics, fuel preferences, cooking practices).
Quantify climate, health, and nutrition impacts through a 90-village cluster-randomized trial measuring household air pollution (PM2.5, CO, CO₂), respiratory health outcomes, greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration, dietary diversity, micronutrient status, and anthropometric outcomes.
Design and pilot innovative financing models including Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes and inclusive financing mechanisms to drive large-scale CCT-NFA adoption and ensure financial sustainability.
Generate evidence-based policy recommendations aligned with Kenya's Cooking Transition, Maternal/Child Health, and Agroforestry strategies to guide national and regional scaling efforts.
Implementation
Close Partnership
Loughborough University, through its Centre for Sustainable Transitions: Energy, Environment and Resilience (STEER) and the Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) program, serves as a key consortium partner with primary responsibility for leading Work Package 1 on Holistic Intervention Design. The University will work in close partnership with GAMOS East Africa, to whom it will subgrant and manage as a key implementation partner for Work Package 1: Holistic Intervention Design (Joint Lead with GAMOS)
Use Energy Delivery Models (EDM) six-step participatory approach for intervention design.
Identify target county needs for clean cooking, improved health, and nutrition.
Address structural and socio-cultural barriers preventing needs from being met.
Co-create financially, socially, and environmentally sustainable interventions.
Key Deliverables
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