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| Paper authors | Shomari Kiete, Majaliwa Mwanjalolo, Muzee Kazamwali, Sadiki Omari Kungu, |
| In panel on | Responding to humanitarian crises in the context of the Democratic Republic of Congo and similar contexts |
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Abstract
Cooking energy is crucial to meet basic human needs both for Lusenda and Mulongwe refugee camps, which critically lack access to basic energy and rely on firewood and charcoal, whose use drives sexual and gender-based violence, and health threats that increase vulnerability. This study examined socioeconomic drivers to adoption of cooking energy among Burundian refugee households. The multivariate probit model performed in R on random sample of 380 respondents to analyse the determinants of choice of cooking energy, and Endogenous switching regression model examined the impacts of clean cooking energy consumption on health and peaceful cohabitation. Results show that 77.6% of households in both camps use unsafe (charcoal and firewood) cooking sources, 90% use tripods and fixed cookstoves. Multivariate probit model demonstrates that the choice of cooking energy is significantly influenced by householder education, access cash-voucher, off-farm work, non-fixed assets and household anciency in camp, and affordability and availability of CCE. Access to CCE reduces the risk of SGBV, improves health, and ties coexistence. Results emphasise the importance of socioeconomic and institutional factors in achieving sustainable household energy access. Our findings provide humanitarian policy implications to improve refugee livelihoods through the Leave No Refugee Behind access to clean energy.
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