Muna Eltahir
Country Director, Practical Action Sudan
Muna Eltahir- Practical Action Sudan’s Country Director: Joined Practical Action’s team in 2015, she has acquired a substantial and long history of experience in the humanitarian and development fields. Before Joining Practical Action, Muna worked for UNOCHA, ADRA, British Aid (FCDO), Netherlands Embassy, and Windle Trust International. Muna holds two master’s degrees; one in Economics of Human Resource Development from India and the other one is in International Community Development from Andrews University of Michigan – USA. Muna is a gender expert as well as a women’s rights activist.
Day 0
October 10
Sessions by Muna Eltahir
Day 1
October 11
Sessions by Muna Eltahir
Day 2
October 12
Sessions by Muna Eltahir
9:00 am-10:30 am
Breakout Room A
Perspectives on Innovation: Measuring & Monetizing Impacts
Game-changing innovations can dramatically contribute to scaling the sector and bring us closer to universal access to clean cooking solutions. These talks will feature innovators who will discuss how their products, services, or approaches have the potential to address key challenges in the sector.
- Advancing innovative direct impact monitoring: Fuel Use Electronic Logger (FUEL): Nordica MacCarty, Associate Professor of Engineering, Oregon State University
- Clean cooking saves lives: the Air Burden of Disease Explorer can predict how many: Michael Johnson, Technical Director, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group
- Advancing digital MRV to scale nature-linked clean cooking: Claire Willers, Senior Manager, Market Relations, The Gold Standard Foundation
- Unlocking climate finance for clean cooking in displacement settings: Muna Eltahir, Director of Practical Action Sudan
- Applying research to create a new results-based finance tool for women’s empowerment: Subhrendu Pattanayak, Oak Professor of Environmental and Energy Policy, Duke University
Speakers
Elisa Derby
Senior Director of Research, Evidence and Learning, Clean Cooking Alliance
Daniel Kammen
Senior Advisor for Energy Innovation, US Agency for International Development
Nordica MacCarty
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University
Michael Johnson
Technical Director, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group
Claire Willers
Senior Manager, Market Relations, The Gold Standard Foundation
Muna Eltahir
Country Director, Practical Action Sudan
Subhrendu Pattanayak
Oak Professor of Environmental and Energy Policy, Duke University
Day 3
October 13
Sessions by Muna Eltahir
Day 4
October 14
Sessions by Muna Eltahir
Sessions by Muna Eltahir
Sessions by Muna Eltahir
Sessions by Muna Eltahir
9:00 am-10:30 am
Breakout Room A
Perspectives on Innovation: Measuring & Monetizing Impacts
Game-changing innovations can dramatically contribute to scaling the sector and bring us closer to universal access to clean cooking solutions. These talks will feature innovators who will discuss how their products, services, or approaches have the potential to address key challenges in the sector.
- Advancing innovative direct impact monitoring: Fuel Use Electronic Logger (FUEL): Nordica MacCarty, Associate Professor of Engineering, Oregon State University
- Clean cooking saves lives: the Air Burden of Disease Explorer can predict how many: Michael Johnson, Technical Director, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group
- Advancing digital MRV to scale nature-linked clean cooking: Claire Willers, Senior Manager, Market Relations, The Gold Standard Foundation
- Unlocking climate finance for clean cooking in displacement settings: Muna Eltahir, Director of Practical Action Sudan
- Applying research to create a new results-based finance tool for women’s empowerment: Subhrendu Pattanayak, Oak Professor of Environmental and Energy Policy, Duke University
Speakers
Elisa Derby
Senior Director of Research, Evidence and Learning, Clean Cooking Alliance
Daniel Kammen
Senior Advisor for Energy Innovation, US Agency for International Development
Nordica MacCarty
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University
Michael Johnson
Technical Director, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group
Claire Willers
Senior Manager, Market Relations, The Gold Standard Foundation
Muna Eltahir
Country Director, Practical Action Sudan
Subhrendu Pattanayak
Oak Professor of Environmental and Energy Policy, Duke University