The delivery of clean cooking access to the 1.2 billion people who cook with charcoal, kerosene, and firewood may have a strong localized employment impact. With the challenge of a rapidly expanding youth population and growing job scarcity in sub-Saharan Africa, understanding the impact of clean cooking on employment as well as the skills gap is timely. However, there is little definitive data on clean cooking jobs. Recognizing this data gap, we sought to conduct a study focused specifically on employment from the clean cooking sectors in Kenya, covering liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), bioethanol, biogas, and electric cooking solutions. This study provides an initial baseline and early estimate of the clean cooking sector's direct formal and informal employment based on one year of company survey data, expert interviews, available literature, and local focus group discussion. In Kenya, the clean cooking sector is estimated to provide about 19,000 direct, formal jobs and potentially 15,000 to 35,000 direct, informal jobs in 2019. While the clean cooking sector provided many jobs, the level of compensation and retention is low. In the LPG and electric cooking sector, sales and distribution are the biggest part of the workforce, while for bioethanol and biogas, manufacturing and assembling is dominant. The majority of the clean cooking sector's direct, formal workforce is reported to be skilled. Management, finance and legal, and product development and research are the most difficult skills to recruit for. Women’s participation is lower than 30% in the clean cooking sectors studied, and managerial positions have higher women’s participation than non-managerial ones. This research exercise establishes a baseline for understanding the employment impact of the clean cooking sectors. However, a massive data gap persists. Our study shows that while clean cooking sectors, especially LPG, are already providing tens of thousands of jobs, further studies are critically needed to map the employment impact of delivering universal clean cooking access.

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推动工作：肯尼亚清洁烹饪解决方案的就业足迹

为 12 亿用木炭、煤油和木柴做饭的人提供清洁的炊具可能会对本地就业产生强烈的影响。随着撒哈拉以南非洲青年人口迅速增长和工作短缺日益严重的挑战，了解清洁烹饪对就业和技能差距的影响是及时的。然而，关于清洁烹饪工作的确切数据很少。认识到这一数据差距，我们试图进行一项专门针对肯尼亚清洁烹饪行业就业的研究，涵盖液化石油气 (LPG)、生物乙醇、沼气和电烹饪解决方案。本研究根据一年的公司调查数据、专家访谈、现有文献、和当地焦点小组讨论。在肯尼亚，估计 2019 年清洁烹饪部门将提供约 19,000 个直接、正式的工作岗位，并可能提供 15,000 至 35,000 个直接、非正式的工作岗位。虽然清洁烹饪部门提供了许多工作岗位，但薪酬和保留水平较低。在液化石油气和电炊具行业，销售和分销是劳动力的最大组成部分，而对于生物乙醇和沼气，制造和组装占主导地位。据报道，清洁烹饪行业的大多数直接、正式的劳动力都是熟练的。管理、金融和法律以及产品开发和研究是最难招聘的技能。在所研究的清洁烹饪部门中，女性的参与率低于 30%，管理职位的女性参与率高于非管理职位。这项研究活动为了解清洁烹饪行业的就业影响建立了基线。然而，巨大的数据缺口依然存在。我们的研究表明，虽然清洁烹饪行业，尤其​​是液化石油气，已经提供了数以万计的就业机会，但迫切需要进一步的研究来描绘普及清洁烹饪对就业的影响。