[Stoves] [biochar] Vuthisa qualifies for funding to kick-start a Biochar project [1 Attachment]

[Lloyd Helferty]

Congratulations, Kobus!

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On 2012-12-14 8:09 AM, Vuthisa wrote:
> [Attachment(s) <#TopText> from Vuthisa included below]
>
> Happy to announce that my company Vuthisa Technologies is one of 33 
> projects (out of an initial 252 applications), and 1 of 7 from South 
> Africa, chosen to receive funding from the Energy and Environment 
> Partnership (Eastern and Southern Africa), initiated by the lead 
> donor: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, co-donors include 
> Austria (ADA), United Kingdom (DFID), the EU Commission and the Nordic 
> Development Fund. The fund will kick-start the VUTHISA BIOCHAR 
> INITIATIVE and is additional to the Government funding we are set to 
> receive from the Department of Environmental Affairs (Working for 
> Water) alien plant removal programme.  EEP will cover many setting up 
> costs, but more importantly cover feasibility trials of our 3-drum 
> Biochar Retort.
>
> This is also good news for ALL members of this group as we will be 
> sharing our findings as we go along.
>
> Now the work really starts...
>
> Regards
>
> Kobus
>
> ------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     Fifth Call for Proposals Outcome- List of Approved Projects
> Date:     Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:40:23 +0200
> From:     Gershwin Pududu
>
>
> Dear EEP Stakeholder,
>
> We are delighted to present to you the projects that were successful 
> during the recently held  EEP Fifth Call for Proposals (CFPs). Please 
> find attached hereto a list (Annex 1) of the projects that were 
> approved by the EEP Steering Committee Meeting on the 27th November 2012.
>
> A total of 252 project profiles were submitted by project developers 
> from our  partner countries during the 5th CFPs. Following an initial 
> screening process conducted for quality and completeness checking, 168 
> project profiles went through the screening process successfully and 
> these were further sent to national coordinators as well as technical 
> and business development evaluators to access each project’s 
> compliance to National policy priorities, technical and economic 
> viability  respectively. Pre-selected criteria, which are in line with 
> the EEP’s CFPs Guidelines, were used to perform these evaluations. 
> Based on the combination of the results of these three evaluations, 
> the Steering Committee has approved 33 projects requesting a total of 
> € 6,397,279 in EEP grant funding. The approved list will also be 
> available on our website soon; www.eepafrica.org 
> <http://www.eepafrica.org> .
>
> We will soon be sending further communication to those of you whose 
> projects have been approved, to submit a full proposal within 4 weeks 
> of receiving the Full Proposal Guidelines. Due to the overwhelming 
> number of profiles received, we regrettably cannot send feedback to 
> the applicants whose projects were not successful during this round 
> of  Call for Proposals.
>
> Many thanks for your participation!
>
> Yours in Development,
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Gershwin Pududu
>
> Energy and Environment Partnership with S&E Africa
>
> Regional Coordination Office (RCO)
>
> -- 
>
> Vuthisa <http://www.vuthisa.com><http://www.vuthisa.com>
>
> <http://www.vuthisa.com>
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