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Government, WFP, UNCDF enable 80% of Tanzanians to use Clean Energy for Cooking The Government of Tanzania in collaboration with the World Food Organization (WFP), the United Nations Development Fund (UNCDF) and other development stakeholders inside and outside the country are making various efforts to enable 80 percent of Tanzanians to use clean energy for …

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The Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Energy, Athumani Mbuttuka has led a meeting of the experts of the National Working Group on Clean Energy for Cooking to review various information prepared by the secretariat of the working group including the National Vision to move to the use of clean energy for cooking and …

The Deputy Secretary General of Energy chairs the National Working Group Meeting on Clean Energy for Cooking Read More »

Minister of Energy, Hon. January Makamba has explained that in June this year there will be a national launch of the National Vision to move to the use of clean energy for cooking and the Strategic Plan for the implementation of the Vision which will outline various issues including the steps that the Government will take …

National Vision For Migration In Clean Energy To Be Launched In June Read More »

How we guide progress toward achieving access to modern-energy cooking solutions for all is more critical than ever before. To date, measurements of access have focused primarily on fuel penetration, overlooking many of the contextual factors that shape users’ adoption of stoves and fuels. Over the past decade,much attention has focused on expanding access to …

The State of Access to Modern Energy Cooking Services Read More »

Sustainable biofuels have an important role to play in Africa’s development. When biofuels such as biodiesel and bioethanol are produced and used in a sustainable way, they provide massive economic and environmental benefits. These include, for example, job creation, modern energy access, reduced pollution and climate change mitigation. They also provide a buffer against vulnerability …

BIOETHANOL IN AFRICA: The Cae for Technology Transfer and South-South Cooperation Read More »

The Ethanol Cooking Fuel (ECF) Masterplan was commissioned by SouthSouthNorth (SSN) to support the establishment of an ECF industry in Kenya, with the objective of providing potential investors, policymakers, and researchers with an evidence base to guide the development of ECF infrastructure and distribution systems in Kenya. It also provides policy recommendations on how the …

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Globally, 82.4 million people were forcibly displaced at the end of 20201. The biggest camps in the world number over 150,000 refugees and several areas hosting exceptionally large refugee populations can be found in sub-Saharan Africa. Cooking with charcoal and wood is the norm in African camps. Not only does this harm the environment, it …

Structuring Concessions for Displaced People Read More »

Innovative financing models are needed to scale up modern energy cooking solutions through accelerated investment and market development. Results-Based Financing (RBF) for clean and modern energy solutions has become an important funding tool for the sector over the last decade. Read More about this Report HERE.

Currently around four billion people in the world lack access to clean, efficient, convenient, safe, reliable and affordable cooking energy2. The rate of access isparticularly low in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with only 10% of the population having access to modern energy cooking services.One of the biggest challenges is financing. To achieve universal access to modern …

Financing Clean Cooking Appliances For End Users. Read More »

Building on its previous work on clean cooking in Africa, the World Bank has begun to explore intervention strategies for the clean cooking sector that move beyond stoves to examine the potential for cleaner-burning biomass fuels. This report examines the potential for scaling-up biofuel supplies for cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically carbonized and uncarbonized biomass …

Scalable Business Models for Alternative Biomass Cooking Fuels and Their Potential in Sub-Saharan Africa Read More »