[Stoves] Alliance Newsletter - July 2011

Leslie Black Cordes cookstoves at unfoundation.org
Tue Jul 26 15:08:20 CDT 2011


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*	New Staff Developments at the Alliance 
*	Sec. Clinton Highlights Clean Cookstoves in India 
*	Internationally Known Actress Joins Alliance as Global Ambassador 
*	New African Partners Join the Alliance 
*	Alliance Working Groups Submit their Priority Roadmaps 
*	UN General Assembly to Highlight NCDs in September 
*	Partner Spotlight: World Health Organization 
*	Sign up as an Alliance Partner 

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New Staff Developments at the Alliance

Dear Alliance Partners, Donors, Stakeholders, and Friends,

I am pleased to share with you some exciting news regarding the latest steps
in the evolution of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.  After a long
and careful search, the Alliance is proud to announce that Radha Muthiah
will take over as Executive Director, effective September 1 of this year.
Radha brings more than two decades of experience successfully fostering
partnerships and alliances in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors.
In particular, she has broad experience in leading organizations through
transition and toward new opportunities and in developing and executing
innovative business models to promote economic development.  

Before joining the Alliance, Radha served as the Vice President for
Strategic Partnerships and Alliances at CARE International, USA.  As a
member of CARE’s senior management team, she led efforts to create and
leverage the organization’s strategic partnerships with Fortune 500
companies, leading universities, and NGOs.  Radha first joined CARE as the
Assistant Country Director in India, where she oversaw the programmatic,
personnel, budgetary, management, and administrative components of the
country program and managed CARE’s interactions and partnerships at the
national and state government levels.  Born in London and raised in Kuala
Lumpur, she holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Tufts
University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford
University.  Her experience also includes leadership roles focused on
branding, partnership development, and management at ICF International, the
American Red Cross, and Mercer Management Consulting.

Leslie CordesRadha’s arrival also signals a return to my position as Senior
Director of Partnerships for the UN Foundation’s Energy and Climate Program,
where I will continue to play an active role in the ongoing development and
growth of the Alliance.  What started out as a six-week temporary role when
we launched last September turned into an incredible experience over the
past year that has allowed me to work with a truly dedicated group of
professionals to get the Alliance up and running.  We can take much pride in
the significant progress we have made together over the past year in
launching, funding, and advancing the Alliance and its ambitious goals, but
the Alliance faces an even greater challenge in successfully executing an
action plan to meet our ambitious target for the worldwide adoption of clean
cookstoves.  I hope you will join me in giving Radha our full support as she
takes ownership of this goal.

I also want to recognize Dr. Sumi Mehta, who joined the Alliance in early
May as a Senior Technical Manager.  Sumi has almost a decade of experience
in the health impacts field, with a special emphasis on those issues
associated with the use of traditional cookstoves, and has played a
particularly valuable role in helping the Alliance tap the global
groundswell of interest in addressing non-communicable diseases. I am
pleased to welcome Radha and Sumi to the Alliance, and I am eager to
continue working with them, as well as the rest of the UN Foundation’s team,
to raise the resources necessary to meet our ambitious goals.

Thank you for your enthusiastic support of the Alliance. I look forward to
our continued close collaboration.

Sincerely,

Leslie Cordes
Leslie Cordes
Interim Executive Director

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Sec. Clinton Highlights Clean Cookstoves in India

Leslie CordesAs part of her recent trip to India, Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton highlighted clean cookstoves and the Alliance at an event at
the Women’s Working Forum in Chennai.  Dr. Kalpana Balakrishnan of Sri
Ramachandra University, a global leader on health exposure assessment in the
cookstoves sector, and a primary investigator of many leading cookstoves
research efforts in India, led Secretary Clinton through a demonstration of
Alliance partners’ stoves, including Prakti Design, First Energy, EnviroFit,
and TERI.  They also discussed new and advanced monitoring tools for this
sector used in Dr. Balakrishnan’s laboratory.

During her remarks, Secretary Clinton announced that two major Indian
industrial organizations – the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and
the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) – have
joined the Alliance.  Both will be invaluable partners in building
successful and sustainable cookstove businesses and consumer financing
options across India.  Secretary Clinton also praised the Government of
India for their National Biomass Cookstoves Initiative.

CII has committed to link community efforts to its extensive industry
network, help commercialize promising cooking technologies, and help
integrate clean cookstoves into its other members’ projects.  FICCI will
support small and medium-sized local cookstove enterprises, develop
microfinance channels to support the purchase of cookstoves, develop women’s
employment options, and support Alliance interaction with the Indian
government.

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Internationally Known Actress Joins Alliance as Ambassador

Leslie CordesAcademy Award-winning actress Julia Roberts has signed on as
Global Ambassador for the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.As
Ambassador, Ms. Roberts will help the Alliance raise domestic and
international awareness of the health, environmental, and economic impacts
faced by millions of people around the world from the use of traditional
cookstoves and open fires. 
Ms. Roberts first learnedabout the Alliance earlier this year while
interviewing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – an enthusiastic advocate
for the Alliance – for a television special entitled “Extraordinary Moms”
that was broadcast on the OprahWinfrey Network. She has also collaborated
with Secretary Clinton to promote clean cooking solutions in opinion pieces
and news stories that have appeared in publications such as USA Today, TIME
Magazine, and Politico.

“Nearly 2 million people around the world – mostly women and children – die
each year from an activity that many of us take for granted: cooking for our
families,” Roberts – herself a wife and mother – said upon becoming Global
Ambassador. “I am proud to stand with Secretary Clinton to work to reduce
the senseless and preventable deaths from unsafe cooking conditions in
developing countries, and I look forward to contributing to the important
work of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.”

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New African Partners Join the Alliance

Leslie CordesOn the heels of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to
Africa in mid-June, the governments of Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya,
Lesotho, and Rwanda, together with the Nigerian Alliance for Clean
Cookstoves, joined Tanzania as the newest national partners to join the
Alliance! 

The seven African partners join our 100 plus partners to overcome market
barriers and achieve global-scale production, deployment, and use of clean
cookstoves in the developing world. 

Some of these countries have already established specific goals for bringing
clean cooking solutions to their populations, which have long suffered from
health complications related to polluting and inefficient cooking.  For
example, Ethiopia has a goal of reaching nine million homes over the coming
five years, while the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, which includes
as founding partners four Nigerian federal agencies, has a goal of reaching
10 million homes in the coming decade.  Others like Burkina Faso, Kenya,
Rwanda, and Tanzania have longstanding expertise, high-level commitment, and
many innovative domestic activities in this sector.  Lesotho is planning
domestic manufacturing of advanced solid biomass cookstoves via a local
partner of the multinational corporation Royal Philips Electronics.

These new partners will be critical as the Alliance works to achieve its
‘100 by ’20’ goal. The Alliance is grateful for their leadership and
partnership, and looks forward to working closely together towards our
collective and ambitious goals.

The new African partners join other Alliance national partners – Denmark, El
Salvador, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Malta, Norway, Peru, and the United
States. 

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Alliance Working Groups Submit their Priority Roadmaps

The Alliance’s Working Groups and Cross-Cutting Committees, including more
than 350 experts on issues ranging from health, gender, humanitarian,
climate research, finance and investment to standards and testing and
monitoring and evaluation, have recently submitted their ‘Roadmap
Recommendations,’ intended to identify the key priorities for creating a
thriving global market for clean cooking solutions.  Unlike the Early Action
recommendations submitted earlier, which identify actions which would have
an immediateimpact on the sector, these recommendations focus on activities
that would enable 100 million households to adopt clean and efficient stoves
by 2020.

In late June, the Alliance convened a two-day meeting of Working Group
Co-Chairs and Coordinators to begin the process of weaving both the
early-action items and the long-term roadmap recommendations into a broad
strategy that will help define the sector’s ability to reach scale. Each
Working Group presented its findings, and smaller breakout sessions later
combined experts from different priority areas to identify major themes,
priorities, and trends for the sector.

The recommendations will be used to create an integrated strategic ‘roadmap’
report that will foster a unified vision of the sector and serve to inform
donors and policymakers of the steps and resources needed to meet the ‘100
by ’20’ goal. The report is expected to be released in early fall and will
be distributed widely.

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UN General Assembly to Highlight NCDs in September

Leslie CordesAs the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves calls attention to
the health complications caused by cooking with inefficient cookstoves and
traditional open fires, a special focus is on non-communicable diseases
(NCDs) – ailments like cancer, lung disease and others that are not
contagious.  These comprise more than 40% of diseases worldwide and are
increasing rapidly, anticipated to cause 70% of all deaths by 2020. The
United Nations General Assembly is convening a High-Level Meeting on NCDs in
New York in September, and we are working with our partners in the global
health and advocacy communities, as well as the US Department of State,
Centers for Disease Control, and the National Institutes of Health, to
ensure that the complications from cookstove smoke – including NCDs like
lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, and chronic lung disease – are
recognized by the General Assembly and other key stakeholders. As an article
in The Lancet recently made clear, NCDs are an impediment to achieving the
Millennium Development Goals.

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Partner Spotlight:  World Health Organization Setting First Indoor Air
Quality Guidelines for Household Fuel Combustion

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the basis for the development of standards and policies, particularly in
developing countries.  In recognition of the substantial burden of death and
illness associated with indoor air pollution from cooking and heating with
solid fuels, the Alliance, along with the German international development
agency GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH)
and Health Canada, funded WHO’s launch of a process to set the first Indoor
Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) for household fuel combustion earlier this
year.  A key objective of these guidelines will be to promote and guide
policy on access to clean household energy in developing countries and
supplement WHO’s AQGs for combustion-related air pollutants.

In January, WHO’s Nigel Bruce and Heather Adair-Rohani, in collaboration
with Michal Krzyzanowski, convened a technical meeting to finalize the scope
of the indoor air guidelines for household fuel combustion.  The draft
guidelines are expected to:  

*	Set interim targets based on improved fuel and/or stove combinations
that result in substantial decreases in exposure to harmful pollutants.  WHO
and the Alliance will work together to ensure that standards developed for
cleaner stoves and fuels are consistent with these interim targets.  
*	Provide an estimate of the health benefits expected every time an
interim target is achieved, in order to encourage interventions that provide
substantial health benefits.  

*	Offer specific recommendations for the use of selected fuels posing
specific health concerns, such as coal or kerosene, and circumstances in
which certain fuels should be avoided altogether, such as coal contaminated
with arsenic and/or fluorine. 

*	Discuss factors to consider when developing market-based approaches
to dissemination of the guidelines, including the role of the public sector,
regionally specific concerns, and the challenges of promoting equity and
reaching the most vulnerable populations. 
*	Emphasize the importance of monitoring and evaluation.  

Since the guidelines are intended for a public health audience as well as
stakeholders from other settings, including pollution control boards, stove
developers, implementers, health policy analysts, and development
specialists, WHO plans to work closely at the country level, and also
develop tailored guidance materials, to ensure that key stakeholders
understand the relevance of these guidelines and the potential implications
for their work.  

The guidelines are expected to be released in 2012, following a stakeholder
meeting and development of a distribution plan.

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Sign up as an Alliance Partner

Leslie CordesThe Alliance is always seeking additional partners who embrace
our far-reaching vision and are interested in providing leadership, funding,
expertise, in-kind resources, and/or other support to advance the Alliance’s
mission. We invite interested representatives from all stakeholder
communities – including the private sector, United Nations, women’s groups,
government, philanthropy, policy-making, research and development – to join
the Alliance as partners in the design and implementation of our programs
                                                                        and
advocacy efforts.

To become a partner of the Alliance, please visit: 
 <http://cleancookstoves.org/the-alliance/partnership-opportunities/>
http://cleancookstoves.org/the-alliance/partnership-opportunities/

Thank you for your support!

	
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