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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="color:black">Over the next three years, the
</span><a href="http://www.cleancookstoves.org/" target="_blank">Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves</a> (Alliance)<span style="color:black"> will support a small, strategic portfolio of targeted research needed to strengthen the evidence base necessary to
precisely quantify the benefits of clean cookstoves. </span>For climate research, the initial focus will be on filling gaps in the sector’s understanding of the impact that fuel collection for cooking has on environmental degradation, including deforestation,
soil erosion, and other natural resource impacts. More spatially resolved information on the specific areas where collection of firewood could contribute to environmental degradation would help identify areas where scaling clean cookstoves and fuels could
provide the greatest environmental benefits. Global mapping of non-renewable fuel collection would be especially useful in identifying the areas of greatest potential environmental impact.<span style="font-size:9.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b>The Alliance is seeking qualified researchers to conduct multiscale geospatial mapping of non-renewable fuel harvesting for biomass fuels.</b> The main objective of this request for proposals is to develop
geospatial estimates of the fraction of non-renewable biomass (fNRB) at national and sub-national levels for Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America, thus enabling clean cookstove and fuel programs to incorporate environmental concerns, including sustainability
of fuelwood and potential carbon offsets, into their planning processes. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt">As much as $500,000 will be available for RFP 12-2.
<b>The deadline for submission of proposals is July 30, 2012. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">To download the RFA and application materials, please visit<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://www.cleancookstoves.org/funding-opportunities/">http://www.cleancookstoves.org/funding-opportunities/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:red">Please help us to publicize this RFP by cross-posting / sharing with colleagues!
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Mehta, MPH, PhD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.75in">Director of Programs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">1800 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 400<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Washington DC 20036<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">tel: +1 202-787-5642 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:smehta@cleancookstoves.org"><span style="color:black">smehta@cleancookstoves.org</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.cleancookstoves.org/"><span style="color:black">www.cleancookstoves.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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