Powering jobs: the employment footprint of clean cooking solutions in Kenya

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Abstract: The delivery of clean cooking access to the 1.2 billion people who cook with charcoal,kerosene,and firewood may have a strong localized employment impact. With the challenge of a rapidly expanding youth population and growing job scarcity in sub-Saharan Africa,understanding the impact of clean cooking on employment as well as the skills gap is timely. However,there is little definitive data on clean cooking jobs. Recognizing this data gap,we sought to conduct a study focused specifically on employment from the clean cooking sectors in Kenya,covering liquefied petroleum gas (LPG),bioethanol,biogas,and electric cooking solutions. This study provides an initial baseline and early estimate of the clean cooking sector's direct formal and informal employment based on one year of company survey data,expert interviews,available literature,and local focus group discussion.