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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Received today with attachments. Please contact Leslie Cordes for more information. Tom Miles<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dear Colleague:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We would like to invite you to participate as a Core Member of the Technology and Fuels Working Group of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. </span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>These working groups will provide an excellent opportunity for Alliance partners to help shape the future direction of the Alliance as we define our strategic vision for the next few years, and we welcome your active input and engagement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Alliance was launched in New York City this September with a commitment to saving lives, improving livelihoods, empowering women, and combating climate change by creating a thriving global market for clean cookstoves. Since the launch, we have begun a range of activities to help achieve our ambitious interim goal of having 100 million homes adopt clean and efficient cookstoves and fuels by 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>As a critical step toward this ambitious undertaking, the Alliance is establishing nine working groups charged with identifying and prioritizing a suite of critical steps necessary for the sector to reach a ‘tipping point’. These outputs will form the basis of both a public ‘Clean Cookstoves Sector-wide Priorities Report’ (or less glamorously, a ‘to-do’ list) as well as the long-term strategic plan of the Alliance. We envision these documents will serve in a sense as the first-ever sector-wide roadmap on how to take clean cookstoves to scale in the developing world. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We believe that this 2011 report will be invaluable not only for informing donors and policy-makers of the steps and resources necessary to catalyze the clean cookstoves field, but also for bringing experts from all over the world around a unified vision for the sector and fostering a common sense of engagement as to the most critical actions necessary to move forward. The Alliance hopes to attract significant new financial and non-financial resources to the sector – and use this report to apply them in ways that will have the biggest impact to the people who need it most. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The working groups will also be asked to advise the Alliance on early actions as well as broader strategic questions that need to be addressed in order to move the cookstoves field forward. These working groups will be populated by experts such as you who have the experience and expertise to inform the dialogue on clean cookstoves and fuels. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The attached ‘Working Group – Guide’ contains additional information on the working groups, including objectives, meeting logistics, and workload expectations. Please confirm your participation by Friday, December 10, by returning the enclosed participant information form and a brief 100 word bio to UN Foundation program associate Amy Sticklor at </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="mailto:cookstoves@unfoundation.org"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>cookstoves@unfoundation.org</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We look forward to working with you on this important initiative and thank you in advance for your support and participation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Yours sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Leslie Cordes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Interim Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Senior Director, Partnership Development<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>UN Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>