AFRICAN AGENCY FOR INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT WINS 2021 OPEC FUND ANNUAL AWARD
The award recognizes the NGO’s work in promoting clean cooking at the Kyaka II refugee settlement in Western Uganda By Howard Hudson, OPEC Fund
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PEC Fund Director-General Dr. Abdulhamid Alkhalifa announced the African Agency for Integrated
Development (AAID) as winner of the latest OPEC Fund Annual Award on March 23, 2022, during a forum on “Unlocking Finance for Clean Cooking”. He recognized the agency’s essential work across the Kyaka II settlement, which is home to 125,000 refugees and asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of Congo of whom 80 percent are vulnerable women and children. With its work AAID is addressing a crucial issue: Cooking is not only an exhausting practice for the women of the settlement, who are typically responsible for preparing family meals. Traditional cookstoves are also dangerous because they emit toxic indoor pollution, which in turn causes millions of deaths every year worldwide. The US$100,000 prize will enable the agency to promote
This award is for those women and children living in refugee settlements who walk long distances in search of fire to bring food to their table.
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Kisembo Asuman, President, African Agency for Integrated Development
safer, cleaner and more efficient cooking practices across the refugee settlement. Working with local authorities, AAID plans to conduct awareness sessions on the importance of clean cooking. It will also train community-based instructors, who will then teach others how to build energy-efficient cookstoves, and it will provide start-up kits to help women launch businesses and generate income from clean cooking. Accepting the award via video link, AAID president Kisembo Asuman underlined the environmental and economic gains of clean cooking and also stressed the gender component. He said: “It is an award for those innocent women and children living in refugee settlements who walk long distances in search of fire to bring food to their table”. Now in its 15th year, the OPEC Fund Annual Award for
Development recognizes individuals and organizations worldwide for outstanding work in development. Previous winners include Earthspark International for scaling up energy access in Haiti; Vida Duti for sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene services in Ghana; and the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee for supporting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.
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