This document provides a guidance to evaluate and assess the social impact of improved cooking energy systems.

This document is an informative document, which provides orientation in terms of:

—？considerations for stakeholders involved in the cooking sector;

—？background information regarding various social impacts resulting from cooking systems;

—？example results chains illustrating the simplified and aspirational causal linkages related to energy transitions; and

—？descriptive tools and methods to measure direct and indirect social impacts.

The target group for this document is any stakeholder interested in evaluating the impacts of improved cooking, such as: researchers, development organisations, non-governmental organisations, government bodies private sector companies, and donor or investors.