Ten Capacity Building Grants Awarded to Regional Testing and Knowledge Centers
The Alliance recently awarded capacity building grants to support 10 Regional Testing and Knowledge Centers (RTKCs). These grants were targeted to organizations that already have extensive cookstove and fuel testing experience, to help them on the path to organizational sustainability and high quality testing. Across the 10 grants, the Centers’ activities address capacity building for testing fuels and climate-relevant emissions (black carbon and other short-lived climate pollutants), bridging laboratory and field testing with health impacts, and quality assurance (QA) plans. Such capacity building grants from the Alliance will decrease over time, as revenue from providing testing services continues to increase. The grantees, selected with input from an external review panel, are:
- Centre for Integrated Research and Community Development Uganda (CIRCODU)
- Centre for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation (CREEC)
- Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT/N)
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
- GERES Biomass Energy Lab (G-BEL)
- Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-Delhi)
- Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (KIRDI) Stove Testing Centre
- The Centre for Study and Research on Renewable Energy (CERER)
- Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, (UNAM), Laboratorio de Estufas Mejoradas (LEM-CiEco)
- Zamorano University Improved Stove Certification Center
These grants are part of a broader capacity building program that includes training events and resources and strengthening expert-to-expert collaboration.
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