Giving Hope Foundation, through her for-profit sister enterprise Awamu Biomass Energy attended a half-day training for cook stove manufactures in Uganda on 30.July.2018. The training was organised by UNDP and hosted at Centre for Integrated Research and Community Development Uganda (CIRDODU) in Makerere Kikoni, Kampala. The training targeted members of the Biomass Energy Efficient Technologies Association (BEETA); which is a national association for cookstove manufacturers and biomass fuels enterprises in Uganda.

The training is part of Uganda’s Green Schools NAMAs, which is a 5-year project that is being implemented by the Ministry of Energy and Minerals Development (MEMD) that aims at installing 17,000 institutional cookstoves in Ugandan schools. The training addressed areas such as;

1. Control Cooking Test and why manufactures need to know how to do this internally
2. The 3-Sisters in Design process ( i.e Usability, Durability and Safety)
3. Techniques in improving performance for Institutional cookstoves
4. Importance of having baseline information and how it impacts design and business

The training was attended by more than 33 representatives of government, cook stove enterprises, and stove testing centers in Uganda.