Publication - Cooking in Displacement Settings: Engaging the Private Sector in Non-wood-based Fuel Supply
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In many cases, host governments are recognizing the environmental damage and are now pushing for change, banning in-kind firewood distribution or requesting humanitarian agency support to transition refugees to alternative fuels. All these issues are present in the Kakuma refugee camp complex in Kenya, which prompted the Moving Energy Initiative (MEI) to explore alternative solutions to meeting residents’ cooking energy needs.
There is significant potential for private-sector engagement in this context – which, though largely overlooked to date, could result in win-win scenarios for all stakeholders. Refugee camps and other displacement settings present opportunities for private-sector cooking fuel companies to expand their customer bases, with the added advantage for vendors of offering concentrated demand and scope for economies of scale. Studies show that refugees are already engaging with existing suppliers, using what little income they have to purchase traditional cooking fuels (i.e. firewood and charcoal). On a global scale, however, private-sector investment in
the supply of alternative fuels to these markets has been limited to date.
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