Understanding Impacts of Women’s Engagement in the Improved Cookstove Value Chain in Kenya, 2015.
Authors:
- Anita V. Shankar, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Center for Global Clean Air; Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
- Mary Alice Onyura, ESVAK Community Development Initiatives
- Jessica Alderman, Envirofit International
In this study, we examine the relative impacts of engaging women entrepreneurs in the clean cooking value chain and its association with overall improved cookstove (ICS) sales and adoption. The overall objectives were to understand the impacts that women can have on sales of ICS when engaged as entrepreneurs and to compare the relative business capacities of newly trained male and female entrepreneurs who received either basic entrepreneurial training or a novel agency-based empowerment training.
