Data from the World Health Organization indicate that more people die each day from diseases for which many cases could be entirely prevented by using advanced or “clean” cookstoves and fuels, than from other more well know known diseases such as HIV/AIDS...
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The lack of an international agreement on standards has made it challenging for stove manufacturers, distributors, investors as well as users to rate the quality and efficiency of cook stoves in different markets. Because improved stoves are not necessarily...
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A central goal of the Alliance is to create a robust market enabling approach or framework. This must take into account the global, regional and national contexts as well as the need to be holistic, tackling multiple barriers along...
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One of the Alliance’s value propositions is to act as a knowledge hub for the sector: to coordinate and catalyze knowledge to enable stakeholders to be well-informed and to succeed in their clean cookstoves and fuels initiatives...
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Championing the issue is one of the six value propositions of the Alliance and a major component of the Alliance’s work and it entails positioning the Alliance and what it stands for with a variety of target audiences...
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The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves has been at the forefront of recent efforts to catalyze a transformation in the sector and mobilize high-level national and donor commitments toward the goal of universal adoption of clean cookstoves and fuels...
Read More>The Alliance has developed a comprehensive ten-year strategic business plan that mobilizes resources towards the creation of a thriving global market for clean cookstoves and fuels. The business plan will guide the Alliance’s efforts in achieving the ‘100 by 2020 goal’ (100 million households adopt clean cooking solutions by 2020) by working with stakeholders to remove the barriers that currently prevent adoption at scale. It will do this across three phases, each with a specific goal: