Subject: USAID RFA – Supportive Environments for Healthy Households and Communities
Dear PCIA Partners,
Please see below for a recently released global Request for Application (RFA) from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that may be of interest. Approximately 20 percent of the proposed work will focus on indoor air quality. The RFA lists “increased use of alternatives to cooking with biomass fuels using traditional stoves and/or increased use of housing improvements to improve indoor air quality” as a key environmental health intervention.
Best regards,
The PCIA Coordination Team
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) seeks to award a five-year $100 million Cooperative Agreement, Supportive Environments for Healthy Households and Communities. This activity will support the further development, introduction, and delivery of high-impact interventions in the areas of water supply, sanitation and hygiene, and indoor air quality. The activity, will support USAID programs in achieving public health impact by improvements in key behaviors and environmental conditions.
For more information and to download the full text of the RFA, see:
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=55298
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Proyecto Estufa Finca is producing TLUD style, biochar producing clean stoves in Santa Maria de Dota Costa Rica. Our project is a partnership between the Seattle, Wa. USA based non-profit SeaChar.Org and C.R. based Association Grupo de Mujeres APORTES. We are interested in working with larger, more established partners to access some of this USAID funding. Please contact Art Donnelly art.donnelly@seachar.org orAPORTES organizer Carolina Abarca mandarinaynaranjas@hotmail.com
Let’s build stoves!
Indeed i support all your efforts in energy technology.
I have been in the field of energy for the last 16yrs, building stoves, making charcoal briquettes, bio gas plants, bio diesel and solar lanterns are some of the projects undertaken.
I will be available for any project in line with those i have listed for you in case you wanted to contact me .
ENEDOM is a company manufacturing TLUD gasifier cook stoves in Rwanda called “KARUNDURA STOVE”.
The main advantage of this type of stoves is its level of efficient of biomass use, clean and smokeless burning which gives it a superior performance compared to all other improved (non-gasifying) firewood stoves.
Cooking with this type of stove is not only more comfortable and clean but is also capable of reducing substantially the energy bill of Rwandan households. It contributes largely to reduction of deforestation due to ever increasing charcoal and firewood demand and to substantially reduce indoor air pollution”.