The Lifeline News Brief: May 7, 2021
What We’ve Been Reading: The Latest In Clean Cooking And Renewable Energy Innovation, Clean Water And Sanitation, Sustainable Development And Much More.  Biden Administration Funds Major African Climate Change Projects The Biden administration is ramping up their commitment to combatting climate change with new funding for projects across the African continent.
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The Lifeline News Brief: April 23, 2021
What We’ve Been Reading: The Latest In Clean Cooking And Renewable Energy Innovation, Clean Water And Sanitation, Sustainable Development And Much More.  US Government Announces Re-Commitment to Clean Cooking At the Leaders Summit on Climate hosted by President Joe Biden on Earth Day, the U.
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The Lifeline News Brief: April 9, 2021
What We’ve Been Reading: The Latest In Clean Cooking And Renewable Energy Innovation, Clean Water And Sanitation, Sustainable Development And Much More.  Renewable energy access key to climate adaptation in Africa: UN chief Support for climate adaptation in Africa is crucial, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in appealing for greater action to provide renewable energy Read More
Power-Blox & Lifeline Kickoff Joint Project for Humanitarian Grand Challenge
April 1, 2021 – Lifeline and Power-Blox have launched a collaborative, multi-year Creating Hope in Conflict: a Humanitarian Grand Challenge project to improve sustainable energy access in humanitarian contexts, starting in the Kiryandongo and Rwamwanja refugee settlements of Uganda. Together, the partners will work with local stakeholders to identify entrepreneurs who will use 50 Power-Blox units Read More
The Lifeline News Brief: March 26, 2021
What We’ve Been Reading: The Latest In Clean Cooking And Renewable Energy Innovation, Clean Water And Sanitation, Sustainable Development And Much More.  World Water Day: How the WASH Landscape Has Changed in the COVID Era Experts say that COVID-19 has significantly changed the project and funding landscape for water, sanitation, and hygiene, and will continue Read More
Partners in Action: The Aquaya Institute
Lifeline’s Partners in Action series highlights the dedicated individuals and innovative ideas behind the partnerships that make our work possible.  We connected with Katherine Marshall and Lisa Appavou about their work with Aquaya and current research partnership with Lifeline’s EverFlow initiative in Apac, Uganda Katherine Marshall is a Research & Program Manager at the Aquaya Institute, Read More
ETHOS in Review: First Time Takeaways
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to attend the Engineers in Technical and Humanitarian Opportunities of Service (ETHOS) conference online. ETHOS is a non-profit organization that organizes an annual conference with the goal of bringing together individuals from within the clean cookstove community including academics, field practitioners, and other researchers.
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