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Climate finance is a powerful new mechanism with tremendous potential for the clean cooking sector. This session aims to increase the share of the estimated $100 billion in annual climate financing going to the towards the clean cooking sector by training future applicants from national governments and their partners in CSOs, private business, and delivery […]

Youth can be powerful change agents within their households and communities. Raising their awareness and understanding about the benefits and availability of clean cooking solutions can empower them to promote and encourage the use of clean and efficient stoves and fuels in their own households, as well as influence their long-term cooking practices. Join this […]

This session includes key findings and highlights from EPA-funded studies on clean cooking, climate, air pollution and health. Panelists will give an overview of their studies and present preliminary results including the health and environmental implications. Target audience includes researchers and cookstove program implementers interested in gaining a better understanding of the potential health and […]

Enterprises have conducted internal evaluations and/or applied for certification on social and environmental impacts and their businesses.  These enterprises will share their experiences, tools they have used, challenges they have encountered and the value of these types of evaluations and certifications. These evaluations and certifications have helped enterprises strengthen their business to meet the triple […]

This interactive session will introduce the Empowered Entrepreneur Training Handbook, a comprehensive training curriculum for entrepreneurs designed to increase business skills, agency-based empowerment, and leadership capacity. Speakers will help guide participants to strengthen their enterprises and scale adoption, and introduce a new set of M&E tools and methodologies for measuring socio-economic impacts of clean cooking […]

Businesses can strengthen their own effectiveness and increase impacts for women by conducting gender assessments or developing gender action plans. These are just two examples of the Alliance’s gender capacity-building tools that will be discussed during this session. Participants will learn how to conduct a gender analysis using the Alliance’s gender due diligence tool directly […]

Without the proper equipment and expertise requirements, it is difficult for every organization to conduct internal testing, especially for emissions, and when independent third-party testing is needed. Regional Testing and Knowledge Centers (RTKCs) provide services to stove and fuel organizations and help them to improve and verify their products. Learn about how enterprises can work […]

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is an effort to create a financial value for the carbon stored in forests, offering incentives for developing countries to reduce emissions from forested lands and invest in low-carbon paths to sustainable development. Presenters in this session will discuss recent research into the relationship between woodfuel consumption […]