Alternative Energy Promotion Centre - Special Achievement Award

AEPC’s plaque reads: In appreciation and recognition of your dedication, commitment, and investment to demonstrate the impact of household energy interventions.

AEPC/ESAP’s Biomass Energy program has a comprehensive approach toward overall biomass energy development geared to help in achieving its long-term objectives of socio-economic, gender, health, drudgery and poverty reduction, and empowerment of rural people. The organization’s main activities are decentralization, institutional capacity building, and policy and socio-economic uplifting of rural people. By the year 2012, AEPC projects sales of 500,000 improved stoves of various kinds. The program performs an initial assessment to define the cooking requirements in each village. A questionnaire survey and pollution measurements are conducted both before and after stove installation. After one year, additional monitoring determines warranted next steps and expansion.

Please see the Bulletin 27 Awards Supplement for an interview with AEPC/ESAP’s Karuna Bajracharya.

AEPC/ESAP special achievement award for monitoring impacts of interventions