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

[Richard Stanley]

Kobus,
Same goes for us too !
Congradulations and tut seins,
Richard Y Joyce 
www.legacyfound.org
Guatemala



On Dec 14, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Lloyd Helferty wrote:

Congratulations, Kobus!

 Sharing with the Stoves List...
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"It is the path, more than the arrival at the destination, that is important"
 - Gandhi
On 2012-12-14 8:09 AM, Vuthisa wrote:
> [Attachment(s) 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 .
> 
> 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)
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