of executing the roadmap.

Former U.S. Secretary of State and Alliance Leadership Council Honorary Chair Hillary Rodham Clinton has committed to chair the event with U.K. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development Baroness Lindsay Northover, Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende, Ghanaian Foreign Minister Hanna Tetteh, and US Administrator for the Agency of International Development Rajiv Shah as co-hosts.

The Alliance seeks to raise $500 million over three years in grant and investment funding commitments for the clean cooking sector, as well as a high-level political commitment from the global community to scale design, production, distribution, gender integration, and other related programs and policies to achieve wide-scale adoption of clean cooking solutions.

The Alliance, in concert with its 45 national partners, as well as leading corporations, foundations and investors, will seekto secure financial and in-kind commitments to meet the needs of the Alliance and the broader clean cooking sector.

Participants at this event will include high-level leaders from donor and implementing governments, UN agencies, international organizations such as international financial institutions and regional commissions, the media, and high-level representatives from civil society, academia, the private sector, investment community, and faith-based charities.

Implementing parties will be asked to make commitments and detail their support and intention to meet specific goals for the sector in their respective countries (number of clean cookstoves adopted, ministries engaged, policies in place, funding mobilized, lives saved, etc.). Donor parties will be asked to commit to and detail specific financial and in-kind commitments to the Alliance as well as the clean cooking sector more broadly. Commitments are