New portfolio company in Tanzania scaling up access to clean cooking through biogas solutions
The third agreement with a clean cooking provider in Tanzania has been signed. The new portfolio company, ENGIE Energy Access Tanzania, will receive approx. EUR 1.3 million in MCFA funding to expand access to sustainable cooking solutions by providing farmers in rural areas with innovative biogas solutions.
Learn why support for clean cooking solutions is needed
The Modern Cooking Facility for Africa is a financing programme supporting scale-up of clean cooking solutions in seven Sub-Saharan African countries. The aim of the programme is to provide up to 4 million people in Africa with access to clean, modern and affordable cooking solutions by the end of 2027.
Programme background
Over 2.3 billion people globally and almost 900 million people in Sub-Saharan African countries lack access to modern and clean cooking solutions. This is the only region in the world where access to clean cooking solutions has not kept pace with population growth.
The aim of the MCFA programme is to provide up to 4 million Africans with access to clean cooking solutions, initially in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The programme will also aim to have a large positive environmental impact, mitigating deforestation and avoiding CO2 emissions, as well as improving overall health and increasing economic growth in the project countries.