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Ghana Developing Cookstoves Performance Label
Launch: 2017 End: N/A
Region: SSA
Geography: Ghana
Type: National
ICS Only?: No
Value/Funding: N/A
Funder Type: Foreign Aid; Multilateral Organization
Funders: Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition.
Features:
  • Awareness
  • Technical Assistance
  • Description:
    Standardized performance labels aimed at empowering consumers and other buyers to compare stove quality before they purchase a stoveĀ [1]
    Reach:
    Tier-setting analysis completed, recommendations provided on thermal efficiency and emissions levels for a potential hybrid-style (comparative and endorsement) performance label to the Ghana Energy Commissions [2]
    Goal/Target:
    Ultimate goal of the research initiative is to identify a label design that is most effective at influencing consumers to purchase improved and more efficient cookstoves [3]
    Sources:
    [1]https://clasp.ngo/updates/2017/ghana-cookstoves-label [2] https://www.eceee.org/library/conference_proceedings/eceee_Summer_Studies/2017/2-policy-governance-design-implementation-and-evaluation-challenges/designing-cookstove-labels-to-influence-consumer-behavior-in-ghana/