气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Microfinance for clean cooking: What lessons can be learned for scaling up LPG adoption in Kenya through managed loans?

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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112263
	Microfinance for clean cooking: What lessons can be learned for scaling up LPG adoption in Kenya through managed loans?
	Hsu E.; Forougi N.; Gan M.; Muchiri E.; Pope D.; Puzzolo E.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	03014215
卷号	154
英文摘要	Liquidity constraints are a key barrier to acquisition and sustained use of clean household energy in resource-poor settings. This study evaluates a pilot microfinance initiative in Kenya to help low-income rural households access liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for cooking. Program beneficiaries received a six-month loan that covered all equipment costs and was to be repaid in monthly installments. We present results from surveys of beneficiaries (n = 69) after they began using LPG, as well as 332 non-beneficiaries from the same community (to understand how beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries differ in cooking patterns and socioeconomic outcomes). 94% of beneficiaries had repaid their loan in full and on time at the time of data collection. Meanwhile, beneficiaries were more likely than non-beneficiaries to use LPG as their primary cooking fuel (76.8% of beneficiaries versus 38.8% of non-beneficiaries). While 81.1% of beneficiaries who used LPG as their primary cooking fuel reported multiple fuel use, we find beneficiaries increased LPG use by 5.9 h per week with a corresponding decrease of 4.8 h in weekly use of biomass fuel. Our findings suggest that promoting LPG usage through microloans for equipment is likely to be both commercially viable and beneficial to health through decreased use of polluting biomass fuel. © 2021
关键词	Adoption Clean fuel Cooking Household energy Loan LPG Microfinance
英文关键词	Finance; Liquefied petroleum gas; Adoption; Biomass fuels; Clean fuel; Cooking fuels; Household energy; Liquidity constraints; Loan; Microfinance; Petroleum gas; Scaling-up; Fuels; demand-side management; energy policy; energy use; fuel consumption; household energy; liquefied petroleum gas; low income population; microfinance; Kenya
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/205155
作者单位	University of California, Berkeley, United States; Global LPG Partnership, New York, United States; University of Liverpool, Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems, Liverpool, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hsu E.,Forougi N.,Gan M.,et al. Microfinance for clean cooking: What lessons can be learned for scaling up LPG adoption in Kenya through managed loans?[J],2021,154.
APA	Hsu E.,Forougi N.,Gan M.,Muchiri E.,Pope D.,&Puzzolo E..(2021).Microfinance for clean cooking: What lessons can be learned for scaling up LPG adoption in Kenya through managed loans?.Energy Policy,154.
MLA	Hsu E.,et al."Microfinance for clean cooking: What lessons can be learned for scaling up LPG adoption in Kenya through managed loans?".Energy Policy 154(2021).