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Shell Foundation's Household Energy and Health monitoring programme


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Standard Monitoring Packages for Household Energy and Health Field Projects

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The reliance of more than 2 billion of the world's poorest people on biomass (wood, dung and crop wastes) for their everyday household energy needs has important consequences for health, economic and social development. The main health risk results from indoor air pollution, experienced most by women and young children, and estimated by the World Health Organisation to be responsible for 1.6 million deaths annually. This toll on health, together with the inefficiency of the simple biomass stoves used by most of these poor households, the time taken to collect fuel, risk of burns, and other factors combine to make household energy an important priority issue for achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The Shell Foundation has funded a number of initiatives that are working to develop sustainable markets for affordable and effective interventions. The aim of this project is to develop protocols, instruments and tools for assessing the impacts of four of these projects, two in India, and one each in Guatemala and Mexico, and to develop these methods into a standardised format that can be applied in other settings.

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This component of the project is co-ordinated by the Department of Public Health, University of Liverpool, and through project teams based in India (Pune, Jhansi), Guatemala (Guatemala City) and Mexico (Patzcuaro).

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The overall aims of the project are to develop standard methods for wide ranging evaluation of household energy and health interventions. The components of the evaluation are:
  1. Indoor air pollution monitoring
  2. Stove performance monitoring
  3. Health, social, and economic impacts
  4. Changes in time activity patterns

The Department of Public Health at Liverpool University is responsible for development of components 4 (health, social, and economic impacts) and 5 (changes in time activity patterns), together with study design issues relating particularly to these components. The standard methods being developed include a mixture of structured questionnaires, focus groups and key informant interviews.

This project is one of a number aiming to develop standard evaluation methods and tools for household energy. Co-ordination of these initiatives is one of the goals of the recently launched Partnership for Clean Indoor Air US Environmental Protection Agency

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2.5 years, September 2003 - February 2006

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Kirstie Jagoe
Project Co-ordinator
Department of Public Health
University of Liverpool
Muspratt Building
Quadrangle
Liverpool
L69 3GB

Tel: +44 (0)151 794 5278
Fax: +44 (0)151 794 5588
Email: k.jagoe@...

[top] [end]Project background

Shell Foundation are seeking to promote the wider uptake of effective and affordable household energy interventions. This project is developing standard methods for evaluating the impacts of such interventions.

[top] [end]Project approach and activities

  • To work closely with the country teams.
  • To assess their priorities for evaluation.
  • To develop tools, which offer flexibility, while seeking to maintain as much standardisation as possible to permit comparison across projects.

Our role is:
  • Development of the study design, guidance materials and tools.
  • Training.
  • A direct contribution to quality assurance through regular contact and review visits.
  • Support of data handling, analysis and reporting.
  • To maintain an overview of progress with project implementation and evaluation to ensure co-ordination and timely completion.
  • Review of experience with methods, guidance materials and tools, leading to preparation of these in a compact format (web and/or CD) for wider application.

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  • Options for study design.
  • Questionnaire covering the health, social and economic impacts, together with a training manual and guidelines for implementation.
  • Focus group topic guides, training and guidelines for equipment.
  • Questionnaire and related methods for fact assessment.
  • Data handling and analysis guidelines.
  • Final output compiling experience in products for wider application



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