EnDev works To Bolster Tanzania’s Clean Cooking Energy Drive

 

👉 SNV is the implementing agency for the global Energising Development (EnDev) programme in Tanzania. Through the initiative, over 120,000 Stoves are annually produced and marketed at patriotic prices in the targeted communities across Tanzania

 

DODOMA. SNV Tanzania, under the EnDev program, is implementing a robust initiative aimed at supplementing Tanzania’s efforts on the clean cooking energy drive.

Tailored to improve accessibility of improved cook stoves (ICS) and e-cooking stoves to communities in Tanzania’s rural, peri-urban and urban areas, the project being implemented by SNV in 20 regions of Tanzania Mainland has also been designed to provide opportunities for local youth and women to escape poverty.

Through the initiative, over 120,000 Stoves are annually produced and marketed at patriotic prices in the targeted communities across Tanzania. 

Reaching more than 649,000 people annually, the project under the coordination of GIZ and Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) receives its funds from an array of donors, including the governments of Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Switzerland.

Giving an exclusive interview to the publication, the EnDev Energy Advisor Ms Rozalia Mushi said that during its inception, the initiative identified many local stove producers who were in the relevant business and trained them to become professional developers of the ICS across the country.

 

“Apart from training them to mould the ICS, we provided them with start-up capital to venture into mass production of the environmentally-friendly stoves,” she informed.

Together with that, she expressed that the project also capacitated the selected beneficiaries on business development skills and linked them to diverse potential markets.

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As part of ensuring the project’s primary goal of producing hundreds of thousands of stoves is achieved, the initiative hatches a special program for offering incentives to top-performing stove makers.

 “Through the project’s Result-Based-Incentive (RBI)- Program, those who managed to make and sell and be verified get RBIs as non-monetary funds while those who sell over 100 stoves in a month get a Financial Incentive supported with diverse materials to expand their production,” Ms Mushi noted.

She added, the overall objective of EnDev Tanzania is to accelerate the growth of local ICS enterprises towards semi-industrial production while increasing access to affordable cooking technologies (including high-tier cooking) to people in rural, peri-urban and urban areas.

The project is currently working directly with over  120 stove producers who have been certified, of which 57 percent are female enterprises, apart from thousands of others that are produced in their own shadows after benefiting from the training.

“The initiative aims to increase access to high-quality, affordable, improved cooking technologies for Tanzanians through technical and business development trainings and coaching,” she noted.

The EnDev programme, according to her, has four components, including Behavioural Change and Communication (BCC), Enabling Environment and E-cooking, among others.

Through the project, the ‘Jiko Matawi’ was developed in a participatory process with the local artisans in the Lake zone during phase one of the programme in 2013, she informed.

“The multi-purpose stove is capable of using both firewood or charcoal depending on the fuel availability at the time of cooking, available in entry cost levels through a stand-alone ceramic model (that can also be installed as a fixed stove) and as a metal-clad version,” she detailed.

She added, ‘Jiko Matawi’ can reduce fuel consumption up to 40 per cent. Detailed on Behaviour Change Communication (BCC), Ms Mushi expressed that the timely program was using diverse approaches to achieve the needed outcomes.

These include key messaging, promotional materials, media and the engagement of Clean Cooking Advocates (CCAs), who are primarily women, to promote improved cooking technology and behaviours.

“The BCC program aimed to strengthen the capacity of champion producers to overcome barriers hindering the adoption of improved cooking culture.”

“This is achieved by promoting community health, environmental conservation, and economic growth,” she added.

She said the helpful BCC program is currently being implemented in seven markets across six districts of Mufindi, Mvomero, Handeni, Geita DC, Misungwi, and Kasulu.

“The project works with the Tanzania Renewable Energy Association (TAREA) and Tanzania Association of Clean Cooking Stakeholders (TACCS) to increase focus and coordination on the clean cooking ecosystem while also engaging in advocacy for an enabling environment in the energy sector,” she said.

She added, EnDev, alongside TAREA, represent MSMEs in the cooking sector in national energy frameworks to localise ICS agendas with the Vice President’s Office (VPO) and the newly announced National Clean Cooking Strategy 2024-2034 with the Ministry of Energy.

EnDev is also implementing results-based financing (RBF) approaches to enhance sustainable access to modern e-cooking appliances that meet the needs of the poor – long-lasting, affordable, and appreciated by users. 

To enable the rapid uptake of electric cooking among rural and peri-urban customers, SNV, through the EnDev program, has established an innovative financing mechanism through the use of SACCOS, PAY GO solar companies, and e-cooking suppliers. 

” SNV partners with Tanzania Cooperative Development Commission (TCDC) and regional cooperative registrars to identify high-performing SACCOS to engage with. “

SNV identify potential SACCOS with a large number of people who can benefit from e-cooking financial services with affordable interest loans.

 

 SNV provides SACCOS with the e-cooking products in the form of grants for demonstration and sale to their members, equips SACCOS leadership with financial management, awareness raising and promotion skills to enable them to run the e-cooking business profitably. Nine SACCOS have been engaged.

SNV also provide financial support to the private sectors (E-cooking suppliers and companies) for the development of consumer markets in selected markets, demonstrating high levels of on-grid and off-grid electrification in mainland Tanzania. 

SNV provides performance-based financing support to companies that is disbursed upon verified delivery of agreed results, Ms Mushi finalised.

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