Process evaluation and assessment of use of a large scale water filter and cookstove program in Rwanda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In an effort to reduce the disease burden in rural Rwanda, decrease poverty associated with expenditures for fuel, and minimize the environmental impact on forests and greenhouse gases from inefficient combustion of biomass, the Rwanda Ministry of Health (MOH) partnered with DelAgua Health (DelAgua), a private social enterprise, to distribute and promote the use of improved cookstoves and advanced water filters to the poorest quarter of households (Ubudehe 1 and 2) nationally, beginning in Western Province under a program branded Tubeho Neza ("Live Well"). The project is privately financed and earns revenue from carbon credits under the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism.

Methods

During a 3-month period in late 2014, over 470,000 people living in over 101,

SUBMITTER: Barstow CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4947312 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature