Improved cooking stoves

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Gemma Hume

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30/01/2015

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5000156 Cleaner and Healthier Home Environment

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The goal of the project is to contribute to wellbeing and improvement of health through by reducing exposure to indoor air pollution and the negative impacts on health associated with household energy use in Kenya. The purpose of the project is to transform the socio-economic and health conditions of low income households through scaling up, wider use, and uptake of improved biomass cooking technologies and to create market mechanisms for production, marketing and dissemination of efficient and improved smoke reducing interventions. This will be achieved through the following five key objectives: i) To increase the level of understanding, knowledge, education and attitude change among communities in Western Kenya on the impact of smoke on the health of mothers and children. ii) To promote the uptake existing technologies and adopt new ones that both reduce smoke in the kitchen and improve the efficient use of fuel wood iii) To strengthen the capacity producers, installers to provide quality smoke reducing and fuel saving interventions iv) To undertake marketing expansion and sustenance of products and services v) To influence policy dialogue and review to incorporate household indoor air quality as one of the public health requirements

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