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January 7, 2013
Improved cookstoves for Bangladesh, by BCSIR and IFRD
This post and report talk about how Bangladeshi cookstoves are even worse in terms of efficiency and polluting gases and solids production than the regular inefficient cookstoves. In view of this, Bangladesh Council for Science and Industrial Research (BCSIR) and Institute of Fuel Research and Development (IFRD) have developed improved […]
January 7, 2013
Focus on household air pollution and the global burden of disease
This post enlists all the essential details to take away from the recent Lancet study which claims that as many as 4 million people die annually of indoor air pollution all over the world. Read more and watch the video here.
January 7, 2013
Bangladesh – Low demand for non-traditional cookstoves, 2012
This report delves into finding evidence that Bangladeshi rural women do not look at combusting biomass in unclean cookstoves and the resulting indoor air pollution as a significant health hazard. Read the report here.
January 7, 2013
The Enabling Environment: Global Guidelines and National Policies for Indoor Air Quality
Most national cookstove concerns have been about energy usage and environment, with modest attention to health impacts of unclean cooking within the house. This paper by RTI International gives key policy and research recommendations with respect to the health aspect of unclean cooking. Read the report here.
January 7, 2013
Women’s perceptions on the integration of solar powered home systems and biogas and its potential to improve gender disparities in energy
This paper by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research looks into women’s perceptions on the feasibility of integrating use of biogas with solar home systems in the rural mix of energy, for remote South Africa where stretching energy lines over long distances does not make sense. Read the report […]
January 7, 2013
Sustainable Energy for all? Linking poor communities to modern energy services
This paper by the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED) explores energy services that are benefiting the poor, and also recognizes the four basic building blocks – implementation, enabling environment, socio-cultural context, and decision making structures. Read the report here.
January 7, 2013
India: Insurance regulatory authority relaxes residence proof norms for microinsurance products
The Indian regulatory authority for insurance, the IRDA has decided to lower the bar for access to microinsurance products, targeted for the low income brackets by relaxing the residence proof documents required to buy the policies. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Nigeria: BoI to set up micro-credit fund
The Bank of Industry will soon be setting up a micro-credit fund, to finance microenterprises in the country. This fund will be called the Base of the Pyramid Fund or the BOPF and will lend to deserving entrepreneurs of the low income bracket. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Kiva: The link between microfinance and fertility rates
This post recounts the attempts at finding a relationship between the numbers of children a rural woman, in this case, in Dakar may want to have, to how much of support and independence she has gained through her microfinance funded microenterprise. Read more here.
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