Module 2: Identification of technological and policy interventions

Module 2 provides resources for comparing various options for clean household energy interventions. This module and its associated tools help users explore how different fuels, technologies, and policy designs can impact health, environmental, and other social and economic outcomes, such as those related to livelihood and equity.

The module includes resources for identifying fuels and technologies that can be considered clean and safe, estimating the potential health and safety impacts, exploring the cost-effectiveness of different interventions, and considering some of the key behavioral factors related to the sustained adoption of household energy (e.g. user’s satisfaction).

This module also emphasizes the importance of considering factors that contribute to an enabling policy environment for clean household energy interventions (i.e., successful plans, laws, and policies), as well as the need to identify drivers and bottlenecks for implementation. WHO has developed a Policy Repository, which includes examples of household energy policies and programs from countries around the world.

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Clean Household Fuels

Tools and templates in this module include:

Estimates levels of fine particulate matter that would result from the use of up to three different stoves, heaters, or lighting devices.

Allows users to model the costs and benefits that would result from different policy interventions that promote the transition from polluting to cleaner fuels.

Summarizes policies promoting clean cooking, heating and lighting from over 30 countries, including evaluations on the impacts of some policies.

A software application that enables users to estimate the impact of health system investments on general health outcomes.

A software application that can model the population-level health impact of exposure to ambient and household air pollution.

A Clean Cooking Alliance database with information about stove models and their performance from countries across the globe

A tool for modelling the impact a household energy intervention could have on morbidity and mortality based on reduced exposure to fine particulate matter.

Models the effect of a household energy intervention on health outcomes by age group for men, women, and children. The tool considers ambient air pollution and country-level characteristics in the estimates.

WHO has developed tools for conducting an HIA, which involves consulting the public, experts, and scientific data to design policies most likely to improve health and be considered acceptable by communities.