Scaling Adoption of Clean Cooking Solutions through Women’s Empowerment

Women have a role to play in every segment of the clean cooking value chain. Women’s involvement can increase project effectiveness and help scale adoption of products and services, while also impacting their livelihoods. There is a huge pay off when practitioners take the time and effort to integrate women and understand gender dynamics — it can increase their bottom line, while providing health, environmental, and social impacts.

This Report Guide outlines common challenges and best practices for engaging and empowering women in each segment of the clean cooking value chain by examining highly successful case studies in which women play lead roles. By using this Report Guide practitioners will be equipped with both an understanding of why women have a critical role to play, how to involve them, and the myriad of benefits that come when unleashing women’s potential. Enterprises will experience the bottom line impacts of leveraging women’s talents, and households and communities will directly benefit from the social and environmental benefits from sustained adoption of these life-saving solutions.