CARE India’s Clean Energy Solutions initiative uses energy-based interventions to increase the adoption of sustainable lifestyle by transiting towards clean energy option. We do this by adopting an incremental approach to increase the awareness of women on clean energy for household use, facilitating acquisition of improved cook stove (ICS), financial and technical interventions, and influencing men and other stakeholders in the ICS ecosystem to be supportive of women’s endeavours for clean energy transition.
The project aims to address the challenges associated with the use of traditional cookstoves with solid biomass by the communities staying in and around Bengaluru, Karnataka. These migrant families mostly survive on daily wages through construction labour and more than 80% live in completely unelectrified settlements that have very little or absolutely no access to basic amenities.
The project aims to increase the resilience of smallholder farmers by building climate-smart integrated agriculture through the establishment of social capital, adoption of improved agri-allied practices, promotion of collectives in an entrepreneurial way, and enabling the ecosystem resulting in increased income for smallholder farmers.
