Efficient and clean cookstoves in Lao PDR are based on the following factors:
- Market mechanisms where buyers/investors will pay for reduced health damages from cooking on biomass fire using Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) as purchasing unit.
- Households’ willingness-to-pay for improved cookstoves.
Videos:
Presentations:
- Household Air Pollution and Health in Laos (Kirk Smith)
- Magnitude and Cost-Effectiveness of Health Benefits from Stove Interventions in Laos (Kirk Smith)
- Innovative Health Impacts: Results Based Financing to Promote Clean Cookstoves (Heather Adair-Rohani)
- Creating a Salable Health Project from Clean Cookstoves: The Lao PDR Opportunity for Innovation and Sectoral Partnership (Ken Newcombe)