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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleague,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Global Alliance has released a Terms of reference for a research and development (R&D) and innovation consultant. Please help us to share this information with organizations that you think would be interested in this opportunity.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ranyee</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Terms of Reference:</b></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Many organizations have worked for decades on stove design, however it has been an ongoing challenge to develop high-performing products that satisfy user preferences and that are available at
an affordable price. This can be attributed to several factors:</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.6pt;">Lessons from research and development (R&D) groups have not been well disseminated to enterprises producing stoves, and R&D groups don’t always have user-centered design expertise. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.6pt;">Design organizations who run workshops or work with stove enterprises are not building off the full R&D knowledge base, which limits what can be achieved in the design process, especially
with a challenging engineering problem like burning solid fuels. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.6pt;">Enterprises have expressed interest in improving their technologies, but have limited expertise and resources to devote to R&D.</li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The Alliance’s goal is to help our partners innovate to improve the performance of their technologies by bringing R&D groups, design organizations and enterprises together, with users at the
center, to leverage their individual strengths and expertise. This Terms of Reference (TOR) is for a consultant or firm to integrate results from ongoing R&D projects, work one-on-one with three (3) enterprises to innovate on their product lines, and lead
two (2) regional workshops where multiple entrepreneurs can benefit. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Submit proposals to Ranyee Chiang, Director of Standards, Technology and Fuels (<a href="mailto:rchiang@cleancookstoves.or" target="_parent"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">rchiang@cleancookstoves.or</span></a>g)
by <b>April 4, 2015</b>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Full information and instructions:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://cleancookstoves.org/funding-opportunities/96.html" target="_parent">http://cleancookstoves.org/funding-opportunities/96.html</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.cleancookstoves.org/" target="_parent"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"><img width="91" height="56" tabindex="-1" id="Picture_x0020_1" alt="Global_Aliance_Clean_Cookstoves_blue_v23" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D05BDD.86395A30" border="0" data-ms-imgsrc="cid:image003.jpg@01D05BDD.86395A30"></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt;">Ranyee Chiang, Ph.D.</span></b><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt;">Director of Standards, Technology and Fuels</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.cleancookstoves.org/" target="_parent"><span style="color: rgb(46, 116, 181); font-size: 12pt;">www.cleancookstoves.org</span></a><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
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