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|Pub Title=Climate-friendly Cooking: Scaling Markets – A Guide on the Professionalisation Approach
|Pub Organization=EnDev
|Pub Author=EnDev
|Pub Month=May
|Pub Year=2024
|Pub Abstract=The promotion of climate-friendly cooking is essential in reaching SDG 7. However, progress in achieving universal access to clean cooking solutions remains insufficient. As of today, approximately 2.3 billion people worldwide still lack access to clean cooking and use traditional cooking methods instead. 

The “Promotion of Climate-Friendly Cooking: Kenya and Senegal” project addresses this issue by scaling up efficient cooking technologies through market-based approaches. Implemented in partnership with the EnDev programme as an associated project, the project aims to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improve people’s – and especially women’s – living conditions by strengthening improved cookstove (ICS) markets in both hashtag Kenya and hashtag Senegal. 

Over the past three years, the project has devised a holistic market-based approach in which local ICS producers act as the key drivers of promoting efficient cooking technologies within Kenya and Senegal.

The project supports local ICS producers in increasing their productivity by providing so-called performance-based professionalisation kits. These kits consist of a range of materials and tools – for example, a welding machine – as well as in-depth technical and business training modules covering topics like health, safety, accounting, and marketing strategies. In addition, the ICS producers receive support in distributing their products even in remote regions. 

At the moment, the project collaborates with over 500 ICS producers in Kenya and Senegal. As a result, the collaboration has catalysed exponential growth in the ICS markets of both countries, accelerating the transition to clean cooking.
|Pub Download=https://endev.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/GCF_Guide_Cooking.pdf
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|Pub Tag Cooking=Cooking
|Pub Tag Improved Cookstoves=Improved Cookstoves
|Pub Tag Other=Other
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