Benefits of Action to Reduce Household Air Pollution (BAR-HAP) Tool

The Benefits of Action to Reduce Household Air Pollution (BAR-HAP) tool is a planning tool for assessing the costs and benefits of different interventions that aim to reduce cooking-related household air pollution. BAR-HAP is a resource in WHO’s Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit (CHEST). The tool includes 16 different cleaner cooking transitions from more polluting stoves and fuels to cleaner options, including both transitional options (that offer some health benefits) and clean options (that meet emissions levels in the WHO Guidelines for indoor air quality: household fuel combustion). For each cooking transition, users can also select a policy intervention that will be applied, such as stove or fuel subsidy, financing, intensive behavior change campaign, or a technology ban.