South Asia Regional Workshop on Indoor Air Pollution, Health and Household Energy

February 27-28, 2006, Kathmandu, Nepal

Practical Action Nepal and Indoor Air Pollution and Health Forum Nepal jointly organized this workshop for participants from South Asian countries, focusing on existing policy provisions and best practices of to tackle IAP in South Asia. Focus themes of the workshop will include: indoor air quality monitoring; gender and IAP; poverty and IAP; health impacts of indoor smoke; economics of household energy and indoor smoke; enabling policy frameworks; awareness raising on IAP and its reduction technologies; scaling-up of successful technologies on IAP reduction; and benefits of improving rural energy services in relation to reduced IAP.