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Ghana National Program
Launch: 2013 [4] End: N/A
Region: SSA
Geography: Ghana
Type: National
ICS Only?: No
Value/Funding: N/A
Funder Type: Domestic Government [4]
Funders: Ministry of Finance [4]
Features:
  • Awareness
  • Subsidy
  • Direct Provision
  • Description:
    Large-scale awareness campaigns to promote use of LPG for cooking. Development of national standards for cookstoves and efforts to expand the use of biogas and alcohol fuels at the household level [1]. RISE rating 61/100 [3]
    Reach:
    Increased access from 24% in 2015 to 25% in 2017 and expanded access of 1.4 percentage points annually between 2010 and 2017. National rural LPG program distributed ~70,000 LPG cylinders to households since 2014 [1]
    Goal/Target:
    Provide LPG access to 50% of Ghana's population by 2020 [4]
    Sources:
    [1] https://trackingsdg7.esmap.org/data/files/download-documents/chapter_2_access_to_clean_fuels_and_technologies_for_cooking.pdf [2] http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/385081467992479462/The-state-of-the-global-clean-and-improved-cooking-sector p. 120 [3] http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/553071544206394642/pdf/132782-replacement-PUBLIC-RiseReport-HighRes.pdf [4] https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S097308261830262X?token=276BA2837A28EC6E7FC50662B371B088F22F95E6E569252330469A57FAAD6F2932F835BA983BFFD984D3787C260ECB14