MCFA Annual Results Report 2024
The MCFA Annual Results Report 2024 highlights initial results of efforts to accelerate access to clean cooking solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2024, around 18,000 people in Sub-Saharan Africa gained access to clean cooking through approx. 3,000 initial clean cooking services provided by MCFA-financed companies.
MCFA signs agreement with Bidhaa Sasa in Kenya
Bidhaa Sasa is a Kenyan company providing access to affordable, electric cooking in rural areas. With the MCFA funding, the company will scale up sales of electric pressure cookers targeting up to 100,000 primarily female customers in rural areas of Western and Central Kenya.
MCFA to support KOKO Networks to scale up its bioethanol solution for clean cooking across Kenya
KOKO Networks manufactures and sells a modern two-burner stove that runs on a renewable liquid bioethanol cooking. The aim is to provide access to clean cooking for up to 200,000 low-income households, benefiting 750,000 people, by 2029.
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.