The Government-led initiative for LPG scale-up in Cameroon: Programme development and initial evaluation

Nigel Bruce,Rachel Anderson De Cuevas,Jessie Cooper,Bessem Enonchong,Sara Ronzi,Elisa Puzzolo,Bertrand Mbatchou,Daniel Pope

doi:10.1016/j.esd.2018.05.010

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Abstract

In 2016, the government of Cameroon, a central African country heavily reliant on wood fuel for cooking, published a Masterplan for increasing primary use of LPG from 20% to 58% of households by 2035. Developed via a multi-sectoral committee with support from the Global LPG Partnership, the plan envisages a 400 million Euro investment program to 2030, focused on increasing LPG cylinder numbers, key infrastructure, and enhanced regulation. This case study describes the Masterplan process and investment proposals and draws on community studies and stakeholder interviews to identify factors likely to impact on the planned expansion of LPG use.

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Cameroon is one of several Sub-Saharan African countries whose governments have set ambitious goals for scaling-up use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) as a cooking fuel (Van Leeuwen, Evans, & Hyseni, 2017)
Stakeholders in Cameroon—Qualitative methods were used to understand the processes involved in developing the national LPG Masterplan and key factors likely to influence market growth in Cameroon, including: key informant interviews; informal discussions; observations; and field visits to the LPG Adoption in Cameroon Evaluation’ (LACE) research project sites
Logic models offer a way of describing these as part of evaluation, and we have previously described one such model (Rosenthal et al, 2017). We developed this from literature review (Puzzolo, Pope, Stanistreet, Rehfuess, & Bruce, 2016; Rehfuess, Puzzolo, Stanistreet, Pope, & Bruce, 2014) and experience from the GLPGP

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Introduction

Cameroon is one of several Sub-Saharan African countries whose governments have set ambitious goals for scaling-up use of LPG as a cooking fuel (Van Leeuwen, Evans, & Hyseni, 2017). The GLPGP is a not-for-profit public-private entity, backed by the UN, which provides expert advice on the development of LPG markets to governments which have made a policy decision to expand access to this fuel for the household sector.

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