Dates: 18-20 August 2014
Venue: Hotel Himalaya Kathmandu, Nepal
Regional Cookstoves Testing and Knowledge Centre (RTKC) Nepal activities have been commencing since November 2012 at Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT/N) with support from Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC). Establishment of RTKC in Nepal has been considered an important intervention to Nepalese cookstoves testing and knowledge service market. RTKC have also been serving as a facilitator to link up Nepalese cookstoves issues with the global networks such as GACC and serving national authorities such as Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) and National Bureau of Standards and Metrology (NBSM) to initiate the national standards on cookstoves and develop/improve testing protocols suitable to Nepalese context with reference to IWA.
ICS Regional Knowledge Sharing and Networking Workshop aims to bring together Biomass Testing laboratory representatives from South Asian region and share the ICS testing issues amongst all and discuss on the strength, weakness, opportunity and challenges of the participating testing centers. The workshop will also aid for brainstorming on the field testing guidance document as the New Work Item Proposal (NWIP) for field testing guidance has been passed and will be added to the TC 285 Program of Work by the Committee Secretariats.
The workshop will be organized jointly by RTKC at Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal and Nepal Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (NACC) in coordination with Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC), under Ministry of Science Technology and Environment (MoSTE), Government of Nepal (GoN) and with support from Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC) and University of Illinois, Urbana-Campaign.
Expected participants are stove testing laboratory representatives, stoves testers, researchers, ICS designers, manufacturers and other ICS related stakeholders from the South Asia Regions: China, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Mongolia, Cambodia, Indonesia and other interested countries.
Contact:
Basudev Upadhyay
Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT/N)
Bhanimandal, Lalitpur
G.P.O. Box 3628, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel.: +977-1-5530071, 5544758, 5547627 I Fax: +977-1- 5532962
Email: basudev@crtnepal.org I Web: www.crtnepal.org
www.rtkcnepal.blogspott.com
