Improved Cookstoves and Pico-PV Interventions: Impacts on Employment and Income along the Value Chain

Improving access to more modern forms of energy requires supply chains that reach further into rural areas. RWI conducted an impact evaluation of the employment and income effects of an energy access intervention in Kenya, which is a large-scale program that supports the diffusion of improved cookstoves and small solar products. The underlying cross-sectional data was collected among 648 entrepreneurs in mid-2015. The sample of entrepreneurs comprises previously trained entrepreneurs who are active in their business for on average three years and people interviewed at the time of their training. To identify those training participants who continued with the business, additional data was collected among all training participants in a phone survey one and a half years later.