Leslie Cordes, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves December, 2010

Dear Colleague:

We would like to invite you to participate as a Core Member of the Technology and Fuels Working Group of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. These working groups will provide an excellent opportunity for Alliance partners to help shape the future direction of the Alliance as we define our strategic vision for the next few years, and we welcome your active input and engagement.

The Alliance was launched in New York City this September with a commitment to saving lives, improving livelihoods, empowering women, and combating climate change by creating a thriving global market for clean cookstoves. Since the launch, we have begun a range of activities to help achieve our ambitious interim goal of having 100 million homes adopt clean and efficient cookstoves and fuels by 2020.

As a critical step toward this ambitious undertaking, the Alliance is establishing nine working groups charged with identifying and prioritizing a suite of critical steps necessary for the sector to reach a ‘tipping point’. These outputs will form the basis of both a public ‘Clean Cookstoves Sector-wide Priorities Report’ (or less glamorously, a ‘to-do’ list) as well as the long-term strategic plan of the Alliance. We envision these documents will serve in a sense as the first-ever sector-wide roadmap on how to take clean cookstoves to scale in the developing world.

We believe that this 2011 report will be invaluable not only for informing donors and policy-makers of the steps and resources necessary to catalyze the clean cookstoves field, but also for bringing experts from all over the world around a unified vision for the sector and fostering a common sense of engagement as to the most critical actions necessary to move forward. The Alliance hopes to attract significant new financial and non-financial resources to the sector – and use this report to apply them in ways that will have the biggest impact to the people who need it most.

The working groups will also be asked to advise the Alliance on early actions as well as broader strategic questions that need to be addressed in order to move the cookstoves field forward. These working groups will be populated by experts such as you who have the experience and expertise to inform the dialogue on clean cookstoves and fuels.

The attached ‘Working Group – Guide’ contains additional information on the working groups, including objectives, meeting logistics, and workload expectations. Please confirm your participation by Friday, December 10, by returning the enclosed participant information form and a brief 100 word bio to UN Foundation program associate Amy Sticklor at cookstoves@unfoundation.org.

We look forward to working with you on this important initiative and thank you in advance for your support and participation.

Yours sincerely,

Leslie Cordes
Interim Executive Director
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
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Senior Director, Partnership Development
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