InterAction: Women’s Refugee Commission Briefing on Cooking Fuel in Haiti

date: 
March 26, 2010

Time: 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Location: InterAction
1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 210, Washington, DC 20036

Erin Patrick of the Women’s Refugee Commission, who helped develop the recently published IASC Guidance on Safe Access to Firewood and alternative Energy in Humanitarian Settings, will discuss her recent assessment mission to Haiti with the World Food Programme and outline recommendations for cooking fuel strategies that are safer, more environmentally sustainable and address the long-term need to ensure continued livelihoods options for the rural communities currently so dependent on charcoal manufacture.

RSVP by Thursday, March 25th to Heather (hpowell@Interaction.org).