HFI Impact
We are helping entrepreneurs make positive impacts on the environment, energy access, health and livelihoods.
Entrepreneurs making an Impact
- Low- and middle-income consumers in urban or peri-urban areas have access to sustainable and low-cost fuel options that are comparable in quality to wood charcoal.
- Charcoal briquette producers are able to achieve a production scale that can sustain their business.
- Briquette enterprises improve marketing skills which result in more efficient distribution networks and customer acquisition.
- Briquette enterprises increase income-generating activities for other players in the supply chain by supplying to retailers and purchasing from feedstock suppliers.
- Women have increased participation in briquette enterprises as owner/operators and employees.
- Briquette enterprises establish a community of practice to leverage their collective knowledge.
- Briquette enterprises generate a positive impact on the environment by displacing use of traditional wood charcoal.
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