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皇冠体育app Department for International Development has won the 鈥淏est Initiative by a Government Body鈥� at the Climate Week Awards, for efforts to enable 100 million households to adopt clean and efficient cooking solutions by 2020.

DFID works with the to improve livelihoods, empower women and protect the environment by creating a global market for clean household cooking solutions. Our support develops research to both understand the problems associated with traditional cooking practices, and expand the development, supply and use of clean cookstoves and fuels.

Lynne Featherstone, UK International Development Minister said:

皇冠体育app health of millions of girls and women in developing countries is damaged every day by exposure to smoke from traditional cooking practices. 皇冠体育app innovative research for which the UK government and Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves have been recognised will improve women鈥檚 access to clean energy and quality of life.

皇冠体育app Climate Week Awards, held in London yesterday, celebrate the UK鈥檚 most effective and ambitious organisations, communities and individuals and their efforts to combat climate change.

皇冠体育app Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

DFID has been supporting the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves since 2011. 皇冠体育app Alliance is a public-private partnership working towards the universal adoption of clean cookstoves and fuels.

Clean cooking

Around 1.3 billion people globally lack access to electricity and 2.6 billion rely on firewood for cooking and heating.

Every year at least 2 million people die from the effects of burning solid fuels indoors in unventilated kitchens, the majority of them women and children.

DFID鈥檚 work with the Global Alliance is delivering high-quality research and supporting innovation to improve the health and well-being of women and girls across Africa, Asia and Latin America. It examines how best to improve the design and performance of clean cookstoves, while lowering the cost for the users. 皇冠体育app research also examines how clean cookstoves can reach as many people as possible and have the greatest impact on those who use them.

An example component of this work is the recently created Women鈥檚 Empowerment Fund, launched in November last year. This fund provides financial support to innovative ideas that provide women in poor countries with the knowledge, skills and resources to ensure clean cooking solutions are used as widely as possible.

Examples already supported include providing female school cooks with improved cooking stoves and training them in clean cooking techniques and stove maintenance. 皇冠体育appy are also helped to become clean-cooking solutions entrepreneurs.

Clean energy, girls and women campaign

Energy poverty has a disproportionate impact on the lives of girls and women in poor countries. In November 2013 Lynne Featherstone, UK International Development Minister,