Clean cooking: scaling up with crowdfunding

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June 01, 2021

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Published jointly with the Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme, this report is the first in the Financing Clean Cooking series which examines financing trends in the sector with the overall aim of unlocking more investment. Clean Cooking: Scaling Up With Crowdfunding provides a snapshot of the state of crowdfunding for clean cooking. It explains the different crowdfunding models, reviews the current crowdfunding market for energy access and clean cooking, and evaluates the perspectives of different crowdfunding stakeholders, including platforms, borrowers and investors. It also provides recommendations on potential donor interventions to scale up crowdfunding for clean cooking.

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