Organization
AVSI FOUNDATION
Mission
AVSI implements cooperation projects in various sectors with a preferential focus on education, meaning that the person is accompanied towards self-discovery and recognition that the other person is a resource. Each project is conceived as an instrument to promote this awareness in everyone involved, has in itself a need for communicating and sharing, and creates an impact capable of generating a positive change.
Organizational Expertise
Adoption / Behavior Change, Capacity Building, Carbon Finance, Climate/Environment, Gender / Womens Empowerment, Humanitarian/Emergency Response, Livelihoods, Marketing, Microfinance, Monitoring and Evaluation, Policy Development, Research, Technology and Fuel R&D
Technologies & Fuels
Biogas, Charcoal, Electricity, Pellets / Briquettes, Wood
Clean Cooking Activities
AVSI started dealing with Clean cooking promotion and with carbon finance in 2013 through its peculiar approach based on the following:
• Deep and holistic knowledge of community needs also through proximity (presence within, doing with, participation) to the targeted beneficiaries and through comprehensive market studies and cooking behaviour assessments
• Strengthening of the local value chain (Business management, technical expertise, improved technologies and production processes, equipment, marketing and sales skills and tools)
• Demand activation and, especially, behavioural change campaigns
• Accurate realistic and transparent monitoring and impact evaluation (Survey, KPT, Air quality, SDGs) also towards carbon credits issuance
• ICSs as transitional solution towards High Tier cooking Solutions especially for vulnerable households, IDPs, refugees and remote rural areas
• Clean cooking conceived as tool to promote integral human development, women empowerment
Partnership
AVSI aims at collaborating with CCA to foster affordable and quality solutions to improve domestic energy efficiency and reduce HAP in low income areas. We would like to share best practices particularly concerning behavioural change promotion and dissemination of high tier mass solution (induction hobs gasifiers, LPG/gas cookers). AVSI can contribute through its approach based on a participatory and holistic knowledge of the targeted “consumers” and communities; its comprehensive capability to deliver different clean cooking relevant activities on the field also in remote and vulnerable areas also toward the production of high quality carbon credits; and extensive experience in partnering with private companies and local authorities.
Regions Operating In
Sub-Saharan Africa
Country Based In
Italy
Address
Via Donatello, 5b
Milano, Milano 200131
Italy
Website
Primary Point of Contact
Name: Mr. Alessandro Galimberti
Title: Head of Climate Change, Energy and Environment Unit
Email: alessandro.galimberti@avsi.org
Phone: 3357250098
Secondary Point of Contact
Name: Ms. Martina Raimondi
Title: Clean Cooking Officer
Email: martina.raimondi@avsi.org
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