HEDON Knowledge Bank

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Welcome to the HEDON Knowledge Bank. This is a powerful, open and collaborative system for ongoing knowledge creation and professional discussion. The forum is probably unlike any online forum you have ever used before - so spending a few minutes getting to know how it works is time well spent. The best place to start is on the welcome new user page. Visit the help page and experiment in the sandbox to learn how you can edit any article.

We welcome your active involvement - in fact we rely on it! Interested? Take a look at How you can get involved.

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Take a look at the following key pages / discussions and please contribute:

Volunteers - HEDON needs volunteers with all sorts of skills to help build, maintain and get the most out of our site and services. Click here if you are interested.
CSD 15 - The 15th session of the UN's Commission on Sustainable Development, taking place in April/May 2007, offers an important opportunity to mobilise international action to tackle indoor air pollution by facilitating access to energy by the poor. Join the Household Energy Community in spreading the message about household energy, indoor air pollution and health.
Household smoke monitoring - a picture guide on how to monitor smoke in households, based on Practical Action's experiences in Kenya, Sudan and Nepal.
Towards a policy agenda - this discussion is aimed at developing recommendations for policy and practice on ways in which levels of indoor air pollution (IAP) can be alleviated.
Ensuring sustainability - a discussion of the key elements in ensuring project sustainability, including a draft application within a smoke alleviation project.
Energy and HIV-AIDS - do you know of research of this important topic? Please post it on this page.
Funding Profiles for household energy, many of which are courtesy of Sparknet.
Special Interest Groups - are thematic groups of HEDON subscribers. Special Interest Groups or SIGs are a new initiative aiming to create strong communities of practice building skills, and connecting people. Click on the link to find out more, and identify a group you could join.
Regional Groups - are regional meetings of HEDON subscribers. Click on the link to find out more, and identify a group you could join.
Leading Issues - HEDON is currently developing knowledge resources on a number of leading issues. Click on the link to find out more.
Past Newsletters

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View an introduction to household energy
Find out more about fuels, technologies, and tools and techniques
Take a look at a list of resources (and add your own)
Overview of household energy and health
List of categories
List of how-to guides
List of organisation profiles, or see the list of organisations by country
List of country profiles
HEDON Subscribers of the month, as featured in our newsletter
List of project profiles
Some background to HEDON - who we are, what we do, how we do it
New pages in the last 7 days
Recently changed pages
Sponsors - find out about becoming a HEDON Sponsor, and read about current sponsors here.
E-Mindset Energising the Millennium Development Goals – Setting the Enabling Environment (E-MINDSET) in Southern Africa
HEDON Front Page

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