Promotion of Climate-Friendly Cooking: Kenya and Senegal
Traditional biomass represents approximately 15 percent of total global energy use and helps meeting the cooking needs of approximately 2.5 billion people.
The IPCC estimated that replacing traditional open fires with improved cookstoves (ICS) has a global mitigation potential between 0.6 and 2.4 Gt CO2eq/year, while delivering a wide range of sustainable development benefits.
This project aims to accelerate the growth of ICS markets in Kenya and Senegal and significantly increase the level and quality of ICS production and sales, particularly in remote rural areas. The intended outcome is to triple annual ICS production and sales by project end and achieve a six-fold increase by 2030, thereby supporting Kenya and Senegal to reach their stated NDC targets. The project is estimated to directly benefit 11.23 million people and lead to GHG emissions reductions of 6.47 Mt CO2eq during the project lifetime and an additional 24.77 Mt CO2eq by 2030.
This project has an estimated lifespan of 5 years.
Project timeline
Pipeline
20 Mar 2018 • 346 days
Concept note received
20 Mar 2018
Funding proposal received
09 Oct 2018
Cleared by GCF Secretariat
14 Dec 2018
Cleared by iTAP
01 Feb 2019
Approved
28 Feb 2019 • 393 days
Approved by GCF Board
28 Feb 2019
Legal opinion on AE's Internal Approval
03 Jun 2019
FAA executed
28 Nov 2019
Under implementation
26 Mar 2020 • 1,879 days so far
FAA effective
26 Mar 2020
Disbursement - USD 6,765,886
21 May 2021
Disbursement - USD 11,638,796
29 Nov 2021
Disbursement - USD 10,702,341
23 May 2023
Disbursement - USD 9,921,962
14 Nov 2024
Disbursement - USD 3,735,786
21 Mar 2025
To be completed
26 Sep 2025 • 133 days to go
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Financing
- Private sector
- Public sector
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Size
- Micro
- Small
- Medium
- Large
GCF financing100% disbursed
| Instrument | Amount |
|---|---|
| Grant | USD 18,404,682 |
| Grant | USD 24,360,089 |
| Grant | USD 24,360,089 |
| Total GCF Financing |
|---|
| USD 42,764,771 |
Co-financing
| Co-financer | Instrument | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Co-Financing | Grant | USD 6,000,289 |
| Co-Financing | In-kind | USD 2,017,157 |
| Co-Financing | Grant | USD 10,480,383 |
| Co-Financing | In-kind | USD 2,646,945 |
| Co-Financing | Grant | USD 10,480,383 |
| Co-Financing | In-kind | USD 2,646,945 |
| Total Co-Financing |
|---|
| USD 21,144,775 |
GCF Contacts
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Project complaints and grievances
GCF Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM)Phone +82 32 458 6186 (KST)
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Integrity issues
GCF Independent Integrity Unity (IIU)Phone +82 32 458 6714 (KST)
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Entity
Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Head of GCF Business Development Unit
Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1-5 65760, Eschborn, Germany
Head of GCF Oversight Unit
Dag-Hammarskjold-Weg 1-5 65760 Eschborn, Germany, Eschborn, Germany
More contacts
National Designated Authority
The National Treasury
Principal Secretary
Treasury Building 12th Floor, Harambee Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya
Programme Manager, National Coordination (FLLoCA)
Senior Policy Advisor, Climate Finance
Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development
Head of Climate Change Division
Parc Forestier de Hann, B.P. 4055 Dakar, Senegal, Dakar, Senegal
Documents
News + Stories
Supporting women’s local businesses and climate-friendly cookstoves in Kenya
15 Feb 2024 / About 15 per cent of the energy demand worldwide is met by classic biomass such as firewood, charcoal, and plant residues. Some 2.8 billion people cook their daily meals with such biomass. Kenya is no exception: more than 80 per cent of Kenya’s population uses biomass for cooking and heating. The combustion of these materials during cooking releases greenhouse gases (GHG).