If you’re stuck back at the home-office, in the field, and you can’t make it to Lima for the 5th Annual PCIA Forum, then visit us online (er, that would be right here) starting on Monday, February 21st for some behind-the-scenes coverage, interviews, program highlights!
PCIA
PCIA meeting in Lima, Peru, is the place to be for clean cookstove community
5th Partnership for Clean Indoor Air Forum (PCIA)
What do you get when you gather the world’s leading household energy and health experts and offer them five days of dynamic workshops, technical presentations and stories from successful programs around the world?
Unexpected connections. Extraordinary insights. Powerful advancements.
- 1 day kick-off event, Monday, February 21, 2011:
Learn about the government of Peru’s national stove campaign. - 5-day Biennial Forum, February 22-26, 2011:
Join us to address topics including stove performance standards and testing, monitoring and evaluation, carbon financing, expanded commercial markets, recent research outcomes, community engagement and much more.
Now we’re cooking: USAID to grant some $20m for indoor air pollution over 5 years
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) seeks to award a five-year $100 million Cooperative Agreement, Supportive Environments for Healthy Households and Communities. Approximately 20 percent of the proposed work will focus on indoor air quality. The RFA lists “increased use of alternatives to cooking with biomass fuels using traditional stoves and/or increased use of housing improvements to improve indoor air quality” as a key environmental health intervention.