[Stoves] Watson Fellowship - Looking for Suggestions

[Rhiya Trivedi]

Hi all,

My name is Rhiya Trivedi - I got access to this group from Cecil Cook, I 
hope you don't mind. I am a 2012-2013 Thomas J. Watson Fellow 
<http://www.watsonfellowship.org/site/fellows/12_13.html>, which means I 
have funding for twelve months to travel the world and investigate any 
topic of my choice. My funded topic deals specifically with efficient 
stove distribution and construction as a climate change solution for 
communities historically disempowered by climate change rhetoric.

I was a very involved climate activist for five years in the American, 
Canadian, and international climate change movements but was obviously 
dismayed by the extent to which Northern powers entirely dominate and 
oppress Southern, vulnerable nations within multilateral negotiations. 
Recent climate science on the impact of cooking fires and black carbon 
on short term climate change offers some remedy to this unequal power 
dynamic; developing countries have some agency over the climate and I'm 
out to see whether stove deployment is at all possible on the scale 
necessary in the time afforded us by the climate (in the absence of 
action from the world largest carbon emitters).

I'm coming from Malawi where I've split my time between two major stove 
efforts, one of which was specifically working to mitigate black carbon 
and one which was not. In South Africa I'm hoping to visit as many stove 
projects as possible and volunteer if at all possible (I've found 
throughout my life that lending a hand is the best way to understand the 
ins and outs of a project). I'll be spending 7 months with stove 
projects in India and Nepal come January.

So mainly I'm looking for projects anywhere in South Africa (or 
Swaziland or Lesotho) that are contributing to might allow me to come 
and pick their brains for some time (I'm not doing formal research so my 
needs are very low - I just want to be able to chat with implementers 
and target communities as freely as possible). I'm completely flexible 
between mid-November and December 31st to come and visit, and quite 
possibly before that if those dates don't work.

My CV is attached if that is at all of interest. I look forward to 
hearing from any of you at your earliest convenience.

Warm regards for a cooler planet,

Rhiya

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