U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation (OAR): Reduce Risk from Indoor Air - Partnership for Clean Indoor Air

$874K USD

Funder	Environmental Protection Agency
Recipient Organization	U.S. Government - Environmental Protection Agency
Country	World
Start Date	Oct 07, 2005
End Date	Oct 20, 2007
Duration	743 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`252000-87`

Grant Description

The United States and other partners announced this initiative at the 2002 World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.

The goals of the Partnership are to improve the health, livelihood and quality of life of people in developing countries who suffer from exposure to indoor air pollution from household energy use.

Activities include: commercialization training to develop long-term local markets; education curriculum development for primary school children; indoor air pollution and household energy monitoring of pilot projects; and support for researchers to present their indoor air pollution findings to international policy makers.

Awardees: Winrock, EPA/ORD, Cadmus, Education Curriculum Development, Commercialization training, IAP Monitoring and Indoor Air 2005.