India Clean Cookstove Forum 2014

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India Clean Cookstove Forum 2014
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About

The ICCF 2014 will bring together practitioners, project developers, investors, banks, researchers, social enterprises, government and donor agencies, as well as foundations and NGOs to discuss the next steps to tackle the challenges hindering the large-scale adoption of improved cookstoves (ICS) in India.

Structure

Practitioner Workshop – 10 November 2014

In-depth technical discussions will focus on increasing the demand and improving the supply of improved cookstoves. GIZ and its partners will engage with participants on key issues pertaining to marketing, distribution networks, financing, gender and product design.

Conference – 11 November 2014

All stakeholders relevant to the cookstove sector will come together to find ways to transform the market for clean cooking and make clean cooking technologies available in all Indian households. Eminent personalities of the Indian Industry, business, banks, the government and the cookstove sector will debate the roadmap towards large-scale adoption of improved cookstoves. The focus will be on the role that the Indian industry can play, the lessons that can be learned from successful marketing campaigns for products related to cooking and health, as well as the supportive policy ecosystem that the Indian government is establishing.

Business Model Workshop – 12 November 2014

During this workshop, early stage entrepreneurs will be supported in analyzing and improving their business models in order to make them more viable and attractive for investors.

Documentation

Press Note

Registration List

Speakers Profile

Impressions

For presentations held during the forum, please click on the respective session highlighted in blue in the agenda

Agenda

Practitioner Workshop – 10 November 2014

In-depth technical discussions will focus on increasing the demand and improving the supply of improved cookstoves. GIZ and its partners will engage with participants on key issues pertaining to marketing, distribution networks, financing, gender and product design.

For presentations please click on the respective session highlighted in blue in the agenda.

09:00

Registration and Tea/Coffee

09:30

Welcome Address

09:35

Financing for Improved Cookstoves
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11:30

Tea/Coffee Break

11:45

Gender and Improved Cookstoves
Author

13:00

Lunch

13:45

Cost-effective marketing Strategies
Author

15:45

Tea/Coffee Break

16:00

Using Mainstream Distribution Networks For Improved Cookstoves

17:00

'Panel Discussion: Designing an Aspirational Product

18:00

End of Workshop


Conference – 11 November 2014

All stakeholders relevant to the cookstove sector will come together to find ways to transform the market for clean cooking and make clean cooking technologies available in all Indian households. Eminent personalities of the Indian Industry, business, banks, the government and the cookstove sector will debate the roadmap towards large-scale adoption of improved cookstoves. The focus will be on the role that the Indian industry can play, the lessons that can be learned from successful marketing campaigns for products related to cooking and health, as well as the supportive policy ecosystem that the Indian government is establishing.

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

Secretary, MNRE

10:10

Special Address
Mr Michael Steiner, German Ambassador to India

10:20

Inaugural Address by the Chief Guest
Shri Piyush Goyal, Honorable 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

11:10

Panel Discussion:
The Big Push for Clean Cooking In India
GIZ

12:10

Panel Discussion:
From a Push to a Pull Product: Making Cookstoves Aspirational
GIZ

13:10

Lunch

14:00

Panel Discussion:
Matching Numbers, Matching Expectations
GIZ

15:00

Tea/Coffee Break

15:15

Panel Discussion:
Policy & Ecosystem
GIZ

16:15

Panel Discussion:
The Indian Roadmap for Clean Cooking

17:15

Closing Remarks/Vote of Thanks

16:15

End of Forum

Business Model Workshop - 12 November 2014

During this workshop, early stage entrepreneurs will be supported in analyzing and improving their business models in order to make them more viable and attractive for investors.