Energising Development (EnDev)

Clean cooking is gaining momentum – from the Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa and reaching its peak at #COP29 and #G20! Let’s hear from our clean cooking expert Verena Brinkmann how clean cooking contributes to global climate goals and boosts local economies. 📢 2024 – A Turning Point for Clean Cooking: With the Clean Cooking Declaration and $2.2 billion mobilised, the Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa – co-chaired by IEA, AfDB, the President of the United Republic of Tanzania and the Prime Minister of Norway – 2024 can be considered as a turning point for the sector. At COP29, African Leaders showcased their commitment to Clean Cooking and called for urgent action to scale up clean cooking solutions across Africa, emphasising its role in protecting public health, combating deforestation, reducing carbon emissions, and driving sustainable economic growth. Under the Brazilian presidency, the G20 Summit in November 2024 concluded with a G20 Leaders Declaration, promoting clean cooking as part of the global energy transition. The commitment to universal clean cooking access by 2030 requires an estimated investment of USD 5 billion annually. 🔥 Achieving Climate Goals: Traditional cooking methods contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. #EnDev promotes cleaner alternatives, which have measurable mitigation effects. As of 12/2023 EnDev has supported access to modern cooking solutions for more than 24 million people, which led to a reduction of more than 2.8 million tons of CO2e in 2023. The transition to clean cooking is possible and benefits the climate! Important allies on this pathway are local businesses, national partner organisations and international strategic networks. 🌱 Creating Green Jobs: EnDev’s Clean Cooking initiative is driving job creation in the green economy, from manufacturing and sales to installation and maintenance. There’s a special focus on empowering women, supporting female-led businesses, and promoting women's employment in green jobs. 🤝 Ensuring Sustainability: To maintain long-term impact, EnDev involves local actors from the beginning and creates incentives for market development. Partnerships with organisations like the The World Bank help scale successful models even beyond EnDev’s direct involvement. 💬 Read the full interview in the slides! #CleanCooking #ClimateAction #SDG7 #EnergyAccess

G20 Clean Cooking Roadmap – how EnDev is contributing  🛣 Universal access to clean cooking solutions by 2030 is at the heart of the Roadmap for the Brazil #G20 Presidencys Clean Cooking Strategy. The roadmap provides a call to action for the global transition to #CleanCooking and is aligned with #SDG7 and the 2050 net-zero targets. It emphasizes clean cooking's critical role in advancing health, gender equality, environmental sustainability, and poverty alleviation and impacted the G20 Roadmap to Increase Investment in Clean Energy in Developing Countries. For the period of 2025 to 2030, Energy Access is a priority¸ with the need to allocate USD 5 billion funding per year for clean cooking programmes targeting sub-Saharan Africa and other Asia, in particular. Clean Cooking also found its way into the G20 Rio de Janeiro Leaders Declaration: "We commit to accelerate efforts to achieve universal access to clean cooking by 2030, including through formulation and implementation of enabling policies and provision and mobilization of financial and technological support from all sources to developing countries in order to increase the annual investments and support the affordability of clean cooking projects."   On the ground, EnDev is translating these calls into action through innovative projects and impactful collaborations. Read the slides to learn about examples how we’re contributing by: 📃 enabling conditions and policies  💳 leveraging financing and funding  💹 supporting market and industry development #CleanCooking #SDG7 #SustainableEnergy #EnergyAccess #CarbonFinance  MECS programme Agence Française de Développement GIZ Kenya GIZ Bangladesh

🌍 3 Good Reasons for Clean Cooking in Schools 🍲💡 Today at #COP29, World Food Programme and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) are discussing how to accelerate clean cooking transition in schools. Read on to learn about 3 EnDev-examples why making the switch to clean cooking solutions is so important in schools: 1️⃣ Protecting Health for Kitchen Staff and Students: In many schools, harmful smoke particles put the health of cooks and students at risk. At GS Kabuga Catholic School in Rwanda, head cook Onesphore shared how the new innovative stove not only eliminated the problem of burnt rice and smoky flavors but also significantly improved the health of the kitchen staff. EnDev began supporting the school in 2021. The respiratory illnesses caused by smoke are now reduced. 2️⃣ Cost Savings and Increased Efficiency: A Vocational School in Benin was able to invest in an improved cookstove (ICS), as a result of EnDev’s provision of financial incentives to a local company, which enabled them to expand distribution networks to the area in which the school is located. The use of the improved cookstove led to an 80% reduction in firewood use—from 5.5 tonnes to just 1.1 tonnes per month. This resulted in significant cost savings, allowing the school to reallocate budget for other essential needs. 3️⃣ More Time for Education and Learning. In Madagascar, ADES Madagascar through the support of EnDev trains kitchen staff, ensuring that nine newly installed institutional kitchens are used efficiently and effectively. In 2023 alone, 1,088 children benefited, alongside dozens of school staff and cooks who now enjoy safer, healthier working environments. #CleanCooking #ClimateAction #EnDev #SDG7

The multi-donor partnership Energising Development (EnDev) is driving change in #SierraLeone thanks to a project implemented by AVSI, co-managed with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Netherlands Enterprise Agency   The project aims to:    🔵 Empowering local stove producers by supporting 15 local companies and 4 start-ups to improve their skills and increase their production.    🔵 Engaging community members through focus group discussions, school campaigns, and interactive events to highlight why improved cookstoves are good for #health and the #environment.    👉 Learn more about the project: https://shorturl.at/2w2Rk 

Exciting news from #COP29! Last week, the African Energy Commission of the African Union (AFREC) launched the report "Sustainable Scaling: Meeting the Clean Cooking Challenge in Africa”, highlighting the urgent need for clean cooking solutions across the continent.    👉 The case for clean cooking is clear. According to the AFREC report, the use of polluting fuels leads to ongoing cost of $791.4 billion per year, driven by health problems, economic losses, and environmental damage. Clean cooking technologies are a critical part of achieving #SDG7 (energy access) and also contribute to goals on health, gender equality, and climate action. With over 83% of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa still relying on traditional cooking methods, the report emphasizes the significant health, environmental, and economic costs of this reliance.    EnDev maintains a strong focus on clean cooking in Africa: Almost 80% of those who gained access  to clean cooking energy through EnDev were in Sub-Saharan Africa. One example of our work:     🌱Climbing the energy ladder in Kenya: EnDev supported raising the quality of energy access in the cooking sector. This began with market development and providing access to improved cookstoves (ICS), which later scaled up into the Green Climate Fund co-financed project, “Promotion of Climate-Friendly Cooking: Kenya and Senegal.“ Today, EnDev is facilitating market expansion for higher-tier cooking with electric and ethanol stoves. Together with partners, EnDev has supported the National Cooking Transition Strategy including an eCooking Strategy.  EnDev continues to scale clean cooking solutions and energy access across the region, let’s continue to make clean cooking accessible to all!  #CleanCooking #EnergyAccess #ClimateAction #United4EnergyDevelopmentInAfrica  GeCCo - Global Electric Cooking Coalition ESMAP - Energy Sector Management Assistance Program MECS programme Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL))  

With #COP29 being in full swing we want to draw attention to our latest publication „Climate-friendly cooking: Demonstrating CO2 emission reductions”. The report highlights how biomass cookstove projects can contribute meaningfully to Nationally Determined Contributions (#NDC) objectives. Reducing the use of non-renewable biomass for cooking has a significant climate change mitigation potential. It also offers a wide range of development benefits:  🚫 Lowered exposure to smoke-related health hazards  👩👧 Alleviated fuelwood collection burden for women and children  💰 Decreased spending on cooking fuel Because of this, transforming the cooking sector has become a priority in many sub-Saharan governments’ NDCs. Our associated project “Promotion of Climate-friendly Cooking: Kenya and Senegal,“ for example, demonstrates an innovative ICS market transformation strategy and shows how robust monitoring of ICS sales, use and associated CO2 emission reductions can be implemented and ultimately integrated into national NDC monitoring and reporting. In the end, this supports countries in reaching their NDC targets. Green Climate Fund #COP29 #EnDev #SDG7 #SDG13 #NDC #ClimateAction 

🌍 Scaling Up Clean Cooking Solutions: A Successful Morning with GeCCo! Yesterday, the GeCCo - Global Electric Cooking Coalition held a Country Action Spotlights roundtable at #COP29. The event highlighted the progress made in promoting electric cooking over the past year, showcasing real achievements and initiatives from around the globe. 🔋 Our Role in the GeCCo Initiative  As a founding member of GeCCo, EnDev is committed to making electric cooking the preferred choice in at least 10 countries globally—focusing especially on Sub-Saharan Africa. Our goal: to ensure that the cleanest form of cooking is available at scale. 🌟 Real Impact: Our On-the-Ground Success Stories  In Laos, we’re collaborating closely with the government to drive the transition to eCooking. Our "Smoke-Free Village" pilot project in five communities is already demonstrating how electric cooking solutions can improve quality of life and health. In Uganda, we are integrating interventions to promote eCooking accross the portfolio: from business development support for local supply chain actors to demand creation for eCookers via awareness and communication activities. 📊 eCooking: Facts, Figures, and Impacts  EnDev has reached 145,200 people with access to tier 5 cooking to date, which means they are cooking with electricity and/or biogas stoves. 83,640 of these persons impacted just in 2023—a remarkable 136% increase compared to the previous year. This growth reflects our commitment to making electric cooking an accessible and mainstream solution.    👉 Together, we’re shaping the future of cooking: Clean, safe, and sustainable. SNV Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)   #eCooking #EnDev #CleanCooking # #ClimateAction #RenewableEnergy #SDG7

🌍 🤝 Today starts the 29th edition of the Conference of Parties (#COP29) in Baku. Under the motto “In solidarity with a green world", climate scientists, business leaders, Indigenous Peoples, journalists, and various other experts and stakeholders will discuss the urgent need to drastically reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and protect lives and livelihoods from the worsening impacts of climate change. At EnDev, working towards combatting climate change is one of our key principles. Clean cooking contributes to this principle. We aim to contribute to a wider sector transformation from lower tier to higher tier cooking (#HTC) solutions in our partner countries. This not only increases direct benefits for users, but also paves the way for low-carbon development paths. #SDG7 #EnDev #ClimateAction #CleanCooking

EnDev’s Learning and Innovation Agenda🌏🚀 What do an energy-efficient fish smoker and crowdfunding schemes for enterprises in the clean cooking sector have in common? They are both products of EnDev’s dedication to continuous learning and innovation. 📈🔍As reaching SDG7 requires a faster pace in reaching results on energy access as well as an increased amount of impact, EnDev particularly encourages new approaches and business models to test their viability in the market and scale them up effectively. Our learning and innovation agenda lies at the core of our work, helping us to increase the impact of the EnDev programme. It acts as a catalyst for promoting learning among various stakeholders and fostering innovative partnerships within the wider SDG 7 community. We foster innovation, share insights, and align our interventions with global objectives to remain at the forefront of addressing energy challenges and driving positive change worldwide. We will be sharing more insights on how our efforts translate into practice – stay tuned! 🌐 Find out more about our learning and innovation agenda on our website: https://lnkd.in/eZAsb6MP #EnDev #SDG7 #Innovation #EnergyAccess

👋 Curious how Demand-Side Subsidies (DSS) are transforming emerging #PURE markets? Join our second End User Subsidy Lab webinar! We'll showcase case studies from Malawi and Uganda on how DSS has made solar technologies like water pumps and fridges more accessible. Plus, our expert panel will share insights on the shift from price reductions to advanced financing solutions as markets mature. Dive into this discussion: ⬇️ https://buff.ly/4hhSTP8 The webinar is co-hosted by GOGLA, The World Bank's ESMAP - Energy Sector Management Assistance Program, Energising Development (EnDev), and Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA), with special collaboration from SNV, supported by the IKEA Foundation, and featuring panelists from Maeve Project, Uganda Energy Credit Capitalisation Company, and SNV.