Hello Paal, To the best of my understanding, the GACC is by no means intended for only US programs. The GACC is an international organization which endeavors to promote, facilitate, increase awareness and prioritize goals to help others meet the goal of 100 million clean cookstoves by 2020. The GACC does not provide funding. What the GACC can do to help people, like you and your team, who have been walking the the walk and providing clean cookstoves long before there was a cookstove movement is make people and foundations aware of your work and through their political efforts strive to introduce the topic to philanthropists who may wish to fund work like yours.
Much of the business plan is based on the comprehensive report the GACC recently published entitled "Igniting Change" . A copy of this report can be downloaded from this link: http://cleancookstoves.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/UNF_IgnitingChangeReport_4.2MB.pdf By developing standards the GACC can also help educate possible donors as to what makes a clean cookstove; this way foundations may be assured that their donations would go to stoves and programs that do provide an improvement and help achieve the goals and standards that you, and many many others, have help create by your contributions. The program is by no means set in stove. At the meeting it was clear that Dr Muthiah sees the process as being in evolution and clearly dynamic. Remember too that there are GACC meetings planned for the world over including the upcoming ISO meeting close to your home this month. (see here http://cleancookstoves.org/events/ and here http://pciaonline.org/ISO-International-Workshop for more info on that meeting) Hope this helps. Nat of WorldStove . As for the goals and standards From: "Paal wendelbo" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: [Stoves] re GACC report Message-ID: <CA0059A284D74B52939C383B7C52CA10@firmanav10a4e1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Dear Radha Muthiah Executive Director Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves With reference to Nat of World stove. Just a question: Is this a business plan for US AID and US citizen or is it for all of us around the world working for years with clan air cooking programs? We do have the stoves and the knowledge but not the funding. Could you with simple words tell us how we, not US citizen can get funding from GACC for our project in developing countries? Paal Wendelbo [email protected] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.bioenergylists.org/pipermail/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org/attachments/20120204/bb0a0c28/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 08:27:22 -0800 From: "Tom Miles" <[email protected]> To: "'Discussion of biomass cooking stoves'" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Stoves] re GACC report Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Paal, I have subscribed Radha to the list and reposted your and Nat's messages so that she can respond to them. Regards, Tom Miles Owner [email protected]
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