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This paper conducts a review of the World Bank's financed operations and selected interventions by other institutions on household energy access in an attempt to examine success and failure factors to inform the new generation of upcoming interventions. First, the report provides a brief literature review to lay out the multidimensional challenge of an overwhelming reliance on solid fuels for cooking and heating. Second, it highlights how the Bank and selected governments and organizations have been dealing with this challenge. Third, it presents lessons learned to inform upcoming intervention

Energy consumption -- Developing countries. --- Households -- Energy consumption -- Developing countries. --- Poor -- Energy assistance -- Developing countries. --- Energy consumption --- Households --- Poor --- Business & Economics --- Industries --- Energy assistance --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Economic conditions --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Population --- Families --- Home economics --- Power resources --- Energy conservation