Access to clean cooking solutionsremains one of the most daunting development challenges.Based on the latest Global Tracking Framework, the annualaccess growth rate of 0.46 percentage points did not keeppace with population growth. In fact, the global populationwithout access increased by 2 million annually, reaching2.98 billion in 2016, which has profound impacts on publichealth and gender equality, poverty alleviation,environmental quality, and climate change. Because cookingis a highly contextualized system, local innovation andcontextualized solutions are critical for long-termsustainability. Incentives or subsidies will be needed toachieve universal access to modern energy cooking solutions.Government policies are needed to (i) establish and maintainadequate levels of subsidy and (ii) design and implementeffective subsidy allocation mechanisms to mobilize andsustain private-sector participation in scaling up access tomodern cooking solutions and targeting households who havean affordability gap. The pilot experience in Indonesiashows that the results-based financing (RBF) framework canbe an effective tool for unifying key elements fordeveloping a sustainable clean cooking market. Developmentand implementation of the RBF pilot program under theIndonesia Clean Stove Initiative (CSI) confirm that RBF is areplicable and scalable mechanism for using public resourcesto incentivize the clean stoves market and can be adapted toother country contexts.
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