Household Energy Policy Repository

The World Health Organisation’s Household Energy Policy Repository is an online clearinghouse for national, regional, and local policies, regulations, and legislation affecting household energy use at the national, regional, and local levels. It includes information on policy objectives, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E), as well as independent impact assessments of the policies where available. The Repository has policies targeting a range of clean fuels and technologies including electricity, liquefied petroleum gas, biogas, solar thermal and photovoltaic, and ethanol, as well as biomass pellet stoves. The catalogue is part of WHO’s Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit (CHEST), which provides tools to support practitioners and policy-makers in developing and evaluating policies that promote clean household energy use. Policy-makers and other stakeholders can use the Repository to explore how countries have implemented certain policies and understand the challenges that were encountered, which will help inform the design of their own policies.

The Repository focuses on policies that have been implemented since 2010 and includes policies from countries in all WHO regions. Compiling the Repository involved an expansive web search for potential policies and evaluations, as well as a series of expert consultations.