Tentative Agenda
Clean Cookstove Practitioners’ Workshop
Monday, 10 November 2014
Le Méridien, Windsor Palace, New Delhi
09:00
Registration and Tea/Coffee
09:30
Welcome Address
09:35
Financing for Improved Cookstoves (2hrs)
The landscape for access to finance for promoting improved cookstove is dynamic and
complex. It is often a challenge for the practitioners to keep track of the changing financial
landscape. The session aims to inform practitioners about the solutions available to their
different financial needs and provide an opportunity for the practitioners to interact with
key stakeholders active in the financial space for improved cookstove.
11:30
Tea/Coffee Break
11:45
Gender and Improved Cookstoves (1hr 20min)
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves will elaborate how Gender and cooking is
intertwined, how clean cooking interventions touch on Gender and how these interventions
can be designed to enhance their positive effects on women
13:00
Lunch
13:45
Cost-effective Marketing Strategies (2hrs)
Together with McCann Health, GIZ India is developing a tool-kit for cost-effective
marketing strategies for improved cookstoves. McCann Health will present outcomes of
their work and ask feedback on the tool to be developed.
15:45
Tea/Coffee Break
16:00
Using Mainstream Distribution Networks for Improved Cookstoves (1hr)
Cookstove practitioners often underestimate the complexities involved in setting up a
reliable, cost effective distribution network. Furthermore, practitioners have not been able
to leverage existing mainstream distribution networks for promoting improved cookstoves.
The session explores the potentials for leveraging the existing networks for effective last
mile distribution.
17:00
Designing an Aspirational Product (1hr)
Efficiency and usability are two critical design dimensions for an ideal improved cookstove.
Any compromise on these key parameters significantly deteriorates users’ satisfaction. An
ideal improved stove is a perfect blend of the two features. The session allows the
practitioners to discuss the critical features for designing improved cookstove with experts.
18:00
Partners:
End of Workshop
Tentative Agenda*
India Clean Cookstove Forum 2014
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Le Méridien, Windsor Palace, New Delhi
09:00
Registration and Tea/Coffee
09:30
Welcome Address
Mr Stefan Helming, Country Director, GIZ India
09:40
Introduction to the Forum and GIZ’s Cookstove Activities
Mr Harald Richter, Project Manager, Indo-German Energy Programme, GIZ India
09:50
Biomass Cookstove Initiatives (Unnat Chulha Abhiyan) in India
Joint Secretary, MNRE
10:00
Keynote Address
Secretary, MNRE
10:10
Special Address
Mr Michael Steiner, German Ambassador to India
10:20
Inaugural Address by the Chief Guest
Shri Piyush Goyal, Hon’ble Minister of State for Power, Coal and New &
Renewable Energy, Government of India
10:35
Vote of Thanks
Mr Jens Burgtorf, Director Indo-German Energy Programme, GIZ India
10:45
Tea/Coffee Break & Snacks
11:00
Input from the Practitioners’ Workshop and GIZ Support to the Sector
GIZ will give a summary of key points from the Practitioners’ Workshop on day 1 to the
forum, as well as inform about its initiatives in the clean cooking sector, especially
focusing on a tool that enables decision-makers to select the clean cooking technology
best suited for a certain geography and people, as well as stakeholder landscape.
11.10
Panel Discussion:
The Big Push for Clean Cooking in India
The Clean Cooking Sector needs a major transformation to supply the cooking technology
catering to the need of users at affordable prices in large numbers. Eminent personalities
of the Indian industry will provide insights on how this transition can be achieved and
which role the industry can play to drive this change.
* Subject to Confirmation from Speakers
Partners:
12:10
Panel Discussion:
From a Push to a Pull Product: Making Cookstoves Aspirational
In India, improved cookstoves are not an aspired product. This needs to change to
increase the demand for this technology. In this session, panelists will present lessons
from successful marketing and awareness raising campaigns and what the clean cooking
sector can learn from them.
13:10
Lunch
14:00
Panel Discussion:
Matching Numbers, Matching Expectations
In this panel, it will be discussed how manufacturers can be enabled to supply improved
cookstoves that meet the needs and aspiration of cooks in large numbers.
15:00
Tea/Coffee Break
15:15
Panel Discussion:
Policy & Ecosystem
This panel will inform the audience about initiatives of the Indian Government to support
the Clean Cookstove Sector and the existing collaboration of different ministries. The key
features of the MNRE’s new cookstove programme, the Unnat Chulha Abhiyan, as well as
the National CDM Programme of Activities (PoA) for improved cookstoves will be
discussed.
16:15
Panel Discussion:
The Indian Roadmap for Clean Cooking
Panelists will discuss how the most effective clean cooking technologies can be made
available to all Indian households.
17:15
Closing Remarks / Vote of Thanks
MNRE / GIZ
17:30
End of Forum
Ongoing: Exhibition of Improved Cookstoves by Manufacturers
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