[Stoves] [Call for Applications] Winrock International and U.S. EPA Training Opportunity: Measuring and Understanding Household Stove Use

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Winrock International and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Training Opportunity: Measuring and understanding household stove use, Call for Applications


Are you interested in finding out if the stoves you're promoting are actually being used consistently in homes?

Are you looking to gather market data about how your technology fits into the complex dynamic of your customer's various household cooking appliances?

APPLY TODAY!<http://www.pciaonline.org/content/winrock-and-usepa-training-opportunity-household-stove-use>

The U.S. EPA and Winrock are pleased to announce this call for applications for Measuring and understanding household stove use, the next in our series of trainings and testing opportunities related to field-based stove performance monitoring.

There has been a growing recognition of the complex inter-related barriers to widespread uptake and sustained, exclusive use of even the most apparently effective and appealing stoves/ fuels. Laboratory results showing significant fuel consumption and emissions reductions are rarely reproducible in the field when the stove is combined into the intricate cooking systems seen in many households. To maximize potential impacts, the use of the intervention needs to be sustained and account for a substantial proportion of the overall tasks traditionally carried out on the stove. Before a project should consider scaling up, the real, every-day patterns of use need to be explored and understood.

The primary objective of this training workshop and field testing opportunity is to provide NGOs and businesses working in the clean cooking sector with the knowledge and skills to effectively assess and understand patterns of adoption and use, to provide valid, robust data to facilitate and guide best practice. This current initiative builds on U.S. EPA's evaluation of stove performance in the laboratory and previous field testing in Bangladesh, Benin, India, Laos, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Rwanda, Uganda and Vietnam.

Specific objectives includes:

  1.  Provide current background and context for evaluating stove adoption.
  2.  Provide tools to plan, develop and execute an informative, high-quality stove adoption/usage study.
  3.  Provide guidance and build capacity to analyze and use the data collected at a project, program, company, and/or policy level.
Through this initiative, cookstove organizations will be selected to host a 4-day workshop, facilitated by USEPA and Winrock, in which several local or regionally-based organizations will be invited to participate. Upon completion of the workshop, the selected host organization will then receive extended technical support for a field study, which through the analysis survey data and stove use monitors (SUMS), aims to explore and understand patterns of household stove use for a specific cookstove product. Host organization staff will gain the hands on experience to collect and analyze this data on their own for future phases of implementation.

We anticipate providing support for 2-3 organizations to conduct a usage study to evaluate and understand better the use patterns associated with their stove. The workshops are expected to take place between September 2015 and February 2016.

USEPA and Winrock will pay for all costs associated with the training and technical assistance (for more information please see full announcement on website at: LINK). The selected organizations will be responsible for helping Winrock International to organize a 4-day training workshop for other local organizations. The selected organizations will be responsible for all costs associated with their staff participation in the training and the implementation stove use field study, including salaries, per diem, lodging, telecommunications, local transportation for the entire field team, and translation to/from English if required during the field study. The training will be conducted in English with translation to other languages as necessary, determined on a case by case basis.

Results of these stove use studies may be published in peer-reviewed journals and through U.S. EPA communication channels such as webinars and written reports. Selected organizations must agree to public dissemination of key results.

Applications must be received by August 5th. Applicants are encouraged to submit their applications early to increase their likelihood of being selected. Winrock and USEPA reserve the right to close the application process before August 5th if sufficient qualifying applications are received before that date. All applications must be submitted online at http://www.pciaonline.org/content/winrock-and-usepa-training-opportunity-household-stove-use. Please contact us at Moderator at CookstovesAndIndoorAir.org<mailto:Moderator at CookstovesAndIndoorAir.org>  with any questions.


                     Applications for workshop host due August 5, 2015

Primary Audience:

  *   NGOs disseminating clean stoves and fuels.
  *   Representatives from stove manufacturers who want to carry out their own market study.

Selection Criteria:

  *   Applicant must be a partner of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.
  *   Applicant has quantified stove performance as demonstrated by providing the results of the Water Boiling Test (WBT) or comparable test.
  *   Applicant can demonstrate potential for wide customer acceptance or demand for stoves.
  *   Applicant can demonstrate a high quality manufacturing process in which each stove produced meets design specifications.
  *   Applicant has sufficient staff and financial resources, and computer skills, to implement the testing plan (selected organizations will be responsible for all costs associated with their staff participation in the training and field study).
  *   Preference will be given to those applicants who have participated in past Winrock/USEPA or Global Alliance activities.

http://www.pciaonline.org/content/winrock-and-usepa-training-opportunity-household-stove-use


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