The Moynihan Institute has
received a one year $160,000 grant from Secretary's Office of Global Partnerships in the
Department of State to conduct and evaluation of its role in
creating and launching the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC). GACC,
one of the State Department’s flagship initiatives, seeks to leverage
public-private partnerships to support a global market for clean and efficient
household cooking methods and technologies. Its goal is to enable 100 million
homes to adopt clean and efficient cooking solutions by 2020. The evaluation will determine whether or not
the Secretary’s Office of Global Partnerships efforts toward the establishment
of GACC can serve as a template for other State Department initiatives that
seek to develop, deploy, and leverage sustainable public-private partnerships
which advance U.S. foreign policy objectives. Bruce W. Dayton, the Associate
Director of the Moynihan Institute, is the Principle Investigator for the
grant.