<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">The Global Alliance for <span style="background-image:initial">Clean</span> Cookstoves (Alliance) recently published a new report - <i style="font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.cleancookstoves.org/resources_files/scaling-adoption-womens-empowerment.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="background-image:initial">Scaling</span> <span style="background-image:initial">Adoption</span> of <span style="background-image:initial">Clean</span> <span style="background-image:initial">Cooking</span><span style="background-image:initial">Solutions</span> through Women’s Empowerment: A <span style="background-image:initial">Resource</span> <span style="background-image:initial">Guide</span></a>. </i><br>




</span><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 10pt;line-height:normal">Today
 a staggering 4 million people around the world die annually from 
exposure to smoke from cookstoves.  Women and children are 
disproportionately impacted. Although women are disproportionately 
impacted by dirty and inefficient <span style="background-image:initial">cooking</span> practices and reliance on biomass for fuel, they also are crucial partners in the widespread <span style="background-image:initial">adoption</span> and use of <span style="background-image:initial">clean </span><span style="background-image:initial">cooking</span> <span style="background-image:initial">solutions</span> because of their central responsibility for <span style="background-image:initial">cooking</span> and managing household energy. </p>




</span><span style="border-collapse:collapse">The <i>Resource Guide</i> is<i> </i>for
 a wide-variety of sector stakeholders – including practitioners, 
donors, policymakers, multinational corporations, investors, and 
academic institutions – to increase their understanding of why women are
 critical and how to ensure they are included in every <span style="background-image:initial">clean</span> <span style="background-image:initial">cooking</span> value chain segment.The <span style="background-image:initial">guide</span> features case studies that illustrate the successful application of particularly effective best practices. </span></font></span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">




<span><font face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><font face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">The
 report includes an actionable set of lessons and best practices that will 
increase effectiveness in the sector and stimulate replication of 
mechanisms that can lead to the strongest outcomes. There are tools for 
each best practice to assist in its implementation, which can be found 
on the Alliance's online gender guide hub: <a href="http://www.cleancookstoves.org/our-work/gender-guide.html" target="_blank">http://www.cleancookstoves.org/our-work/gender-guide.html</a>. </span></font></span><div>




<font face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><i>The
 Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, an initiative of the United 
Nations Foundation is an innovative public-private partnership comprised
 of more than 800 partners working together to save lives, improve 
livelihoods, empower women, and protect the environment by creating a 
thriving global market for clean cooking solutions.</i></span></font></div></div><div><font face="'times new roman', serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', serif"><b>-------------------</b></font></div>



<div><font face="'times new roman', serif"><b><br>
</b></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', serif"><b>Genevieve Smith </b></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', serif"><b>Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves</b></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', serif"><b>United Nations Foundation </b></font></div>




<div><font face="'times new roman', serif"><b><a href="http://cleancookstoves.org/" target="_blank">cleancookstoves.org</a></b></font></div></span></font></div>