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| Participants posing for group Photo in front of the Zamorano Stove Centre |
The
workshop was organized by Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC), a
public-private partnership under the umbrella of United Nations Foundation. The
Alliance, in an effort to serve its goal of enabling 100 million households
round the world to adopt clean and efficient cooking technologies by 2020 has
supported establishment of Regional Testing and Knowledge Centres (RTKCs) in
many different countries. As such, the alliance has also been working on
capacity development of and collaboration between the RTKCs. Zamorano
University hosted the programme and facilitated associated activities. It has a dedicated Stove Unit and also
hosts RTKC for Honduras.
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| Ranyee (GACC) and Tim (ZU) opening the floor with Introduction of participants at the Opening dinner at Zamorano Cafeteria |
The
program brought together participants from various RTKCs and relevant academic,
governmental and non-governmental organizations like the US EPA, University of
Illinois, Approvecho Research Centre, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group etc. from Asia,
Africa, and North, Central and South America.
Various
presentations, demonstrations and site visits were employed in the workshop to
disseminate pertinent information and for demonstration of facilities and
infrastructures, practices, services and practical application of knowledge.
Discussions were integrated within these means to foster interactive
environment, and separate discussion sessions were held for certain topics.
The
presentation (and discussion) topics and rotations/site visits that were
performed during the workshop are outlined in the next section.
The
workshop enhanced the participants' (particularly from RTKCs) awareness
regarding stove testing and provided techniques for other aspects like quality
assurance, data management, uncertainty calculations etc. Moreover, it also
provided means for RTKCs from all over the world to come together and share
their experiences. The programme paved a way for collaboration among all RTKCs
for sharing of plans, results and to ensure uniformity in practices.
A
tentative plan was formed for the Round Robin Test, through rigorous
discussions among the Interim Committee at first and among all participants
later. The prototype of base stove model to be tested, fuel and operation
methods were determined. Participants also agreed upon means to share related
information amongst all associated to make the testing a huge success.
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| Prof. Rajendra Prasad (Teri, India) discussing with (Gracia, ZU) on the fire starter at the Zamorano Stove Lab |
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