Cookstove technologies have rarely met the multiple demands placed on them to be at once energy-efficient, safe, affordable, durable, easy-to-use, and low-priced. Why hasn’t this global scourge that so shortens and diminishes the quality of life for women been defeated? Among the reasons is a failure of innovation. They also spend twice as much time as men, and walk longer distances, to collect firewood. Women there work longer hours than men, spending seven hours a day on productive tasks and child care, compared to 5.7 hours spent by men. Lao PDR ranked 107th among 146 countries in 2011 on the UNDP’s composite measure of gender inequality. This positions them as vital change agents in adopting new technologies for cooking, such as super-clean stoves. Women at once carry the heaviest burdens of energy poverty and time poverty. In addition to the health risks of indoor smoke, traditional fires mean more unpaid labor and drudgery for women, who spend over three times the time men do on domestic work and child care, according to survey data from 83 countries. One researcher’s analogy offers an instant reality check: a typical wood-burning cookstove emits 300-400 cigarettes’ worth of smoke an hour into the environment around the stove. is a daily reality in 96 percent of Lao households.is a major cause of stunting and low-weight in newborns.
causes two-thirds of Lao child deaths due to respiratory illnesses.is a major cause of premature death among women in Lao PDR, and in low-income countries as a whole.Causes 3-4 million premature deaths a year worldwide.In fact, cooking on open fires causes more than eye irritation. “When I cook on the fire, the smoke hurts my eyes. “I’m very happy about it,” she said after a day of training in operating the stove. Huong, are getting a super-clean stove to take home with them. The project has started with distribution of a hundred of the same stoves to schools with feeding programs. In 2018, a World Bank initiative launched with support from the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) is introducing 50,000 of them to replace charcoal and wood-burning cooking fires in three Laotian provinces. Her role as a school cook placed her among the country’s pioneers in using a super-clean, energy-efficient, largely smoke-free cookstove. She also volunteers, with two other Namheng women, to cook a daily lunch for the village school’s fifty pupils they are among hundreds of women organized by the World Food Programme to deliver school meals across the Lao People’s Democratic Republic since 2002.
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