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Accelerating Impact with Catalytic Capital
Asia sees a growing number of untapped opportunities to support underserved populations, early-stage innovations, and underfunded sectors.
Trust-Based Philanthropy
In the face of increasingly complex and, sometimes rapidly, changing needs on the ground, it is crucial to take a step back and reconsider the status quo.
APAC Sustainability Seed Fund 2.0
By leveraging the success of the first round of the APAC Sustainability Seed Fund, AVPN continues to mobilise continuum of capital into supporting climate solutions in the region.
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We are a leading ecosystem builder that is increasing the flow of financial, human, and intellectual capital from Asia and around the world into the social sector in Asia. We provide a network of peers, rigorous learning programmes, and innovative capital mobilization opportunities that make sure resources are more effectively deployed.
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ReCircle: A Clean-tech Innovator on a mission to Create a Circular Economy
Water and Sanitation and Hygiene
Banka Bio: Sustainable solutions for WaSH needs in India
Water and Sanitation and Hygiene
Fair Employment Foundation: Transforming Recruitment System for Migrant Workers in Asia Pacific
Employability, Financial Inclusion, Gender, Livelihood and Poverty Alleviation
Cool Australia: Supporting Educators Globally through Cool+
Education
HOT-Open Mapping Hub (Asia- Pacific): Transforming Disaster Response, Humanitarian Action and Community Development through Open Source Technologies and Maps
Climate Action and Environment, Gender, Livelihood and Poverty Alleviation
Shelter Associates: Solutions to transform lives of Urban Poor in India
Affordable Housing, Gender, Governance, Health, Water and Sanitation and Hygiene
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AVPN Global Conference 2024
As AVPN counts down to the 12th edition of the Annual Global Conference, which will take place against the backdrop of a world in great flux, it is imperative that we provide the social investment community with the most extensive opportunity yet, to learn, connect, and unite in action for Asia.
23 April 2024
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25 April 2024
Signature Event
Upcoming Events
Nominations for the 2024 Yidan Prize
31 March 2024
AVPN Monthly Member Meet-ups in Bangkok
29 February 2024
Regular Event
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Cooking with wood effects the health of 4 billion people globally while also creating more carbon emissions than the global airline industry. Breaking this down at a household level, the vast majority of this problem affects women in the form of poor health, lack of opportunity and safety.
On average the impact cost is $3,000 per household per year:
- 20 hours per week spent by women on collecting and using fuel wood for cooking
- 3.5 million deaths annually – or 1 in 18 fatalities – from smoke inhalation (mainly women), and
- 85% of logging in developing countries used for cooking.
ATEC’s patented eCook is the world’s first paygo induction stove bringing together paygo, Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and Internet of Things (IoT) functionality that makes mobile money payments easy for unbanked underserved population and provides real-time user information that validates the avoided emission and generates carbon credits at scale.
This carbon credit revenue is ATEC’s Impact Flywheel can then be used to offset the cost of the stoves to Base of Pyramid (BoP) Households which further accelerates uptake and increase financing in climate. ATEC's another product range biodigester captures methane emissions from farm animal manures and turns that into cooking gas and organic fertilizers.
For more information on our work, refer to our Pitch Deck.
The avoided GHG emission avoided through using clean cooking products of ATEC is measured through calculating baseline emission (BE) of carbon from using conventional biomass or other non-renewable systems in cooking. The project emission (PE) is also measured. The final emission reduction (ER) is calculated automatically through stove data by subtracting the PE from BE. Throughout the measurement system, values verified by IPCC and methodologies approved by Gold Standard are used.