Activity Description: The Asian Alliance of Appropriate Technology Practitioners Inc., (APPROTECH ASIA) was established in 1981, to increase the access of the poor to technologies and processes appropriate to their increasing needs and expanding capacities. Its primary role is to facilitate the sharing of appropriate technologies and cooperation among its member and partner-organizations.

Approtech Asia has on-going initiatives on improved cookstove, gasifier, energy-efficient kitchen, clean indoor air, gender-energy-water-poverty, micro-small-medium entrepreneurs (MSMEs) and energy, biofuels and women and rural industry, water-sanitation-hygiene-energy and poverty, green health, community-managed production and processing of herbal medicine, among others.