This study was supported by UK Aid and Loughborough University under Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme. This is a follow-up study for the pilot study entitled “Testing electric cooker adoption in the socio-economic and cultural context of Nepal”, carried out under the MECS ECO project. The focus of this study is on whether eCooking practices have changed (e.g. amount/type of use/additional device bought or interest to do so) among the ECO participants. The study also examined the impact of the introduction of eCooking appliances into the community on households that were not ECO participants. Women Awareness Center Nepal (WACN) carried out this study in the same Saving and Credit Co-operatives of the ECO project – Sahara Nari Chetna Skill Cooperative, Banepa (urban) and Sabal Nari Chetna Agriculture Cooperative, Timal (rural). The approach of the study was as follows:

• Collect data on the cooking practices of 10 ECO participants, 5 each from the rural and urban locations, using an intensive cooking diary for two weeks;
• Interviews of 15 rural and 15 urban ECO participants using a structured questionnaire that includes an indicative cooking diary;
• Interviews of 25 rural and 25 urban non-participant households from the community using a structured questionnaire;
• Analysis of ECO follow-up cooking diary data, interviews of ECO participants and non- participants, Cooking diary data of the ECO project, and Exit interviews of the ECO project;