Economic Environment Index
Author(s):Sreyamsa Bairiganjan
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Authors: Santosh Singh/Chinmay Kumar/L Somasundaram

We view economic environment, as how a government exercises its power in the management of social and economic resources for the region’s development. It is the ability of local governments to provide the social, physical and institutional infrastructure that forms the enabling environment for the overall growth and development of households and industries. The Economic Environment Index (EEI) that we are proposing is essentially a measure of this enabling environment provided by the local bodies for private enterprise and households. It is a comparative measure of the government influenced conditions under which the private enterprise and households (which affect business environment) operate. EEI that is constructed here is based on both objective data and survey data of users/stakeholders experience.

Cooking Practices and Cookstoves Field Insights: A Pilot Study of User Experience with Traditional and Improved Cookstoves
Type:Working paper
Author(s):Sreyamsa Bairiganjan
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The pilot study of user experience with traditional and improved cookstoves based on research in five Indian states. Provides an understanding of traditional cooking practices,looks at some of the improved cook stoves currently in the market & assesses user experience surrounding use of these improved cookstoves.

Bringing clean energy to rural india
Type:Working paper
Author(s):Sreyamsa Bairiganjan
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In many of the contemporary CDM projects see that community development is simply an afterthought, if it is indeed considered at all. By contrast, the Bagepalli biogas CDM project is an example of a grassroots level project resulting in tangible benefits for the rural community. The project has benefited 5500 poor households in the Kolar district of Karnataka. The case study profiles the success of the Bagepalli CDM project.

Fieldwork guiding tools
Author(s):Sreyamsa Bairiganjan
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This is a compilation of all tools used for the CDF-WRI clean energy research work. The tools were modified according to the situation in the field. This document tries to capture all required and relevnt information through tools such as FGDs, structured and semi-structured interviews.