Clean Cooking Solutions’ Quick Market Roll-Out in Tanzania Clean Cooking Innovation Challenge: Call for Applications
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In summary, the Tanzanian government, along with the European Union (EU) and the Ministry of Energy, created the CookFund program, which is being carried out by UNCDF and lasts for five years (2021–2026). By increasing the proportion of the population with access to sustainable cooking options, the program seeks to support Tanzania’s commitment to combating climate change. It offers private businesses catalytic grant monies to help them overcome the financial obstacles preventing households from adopting clean cooking solutions more quickly.
The following clean cooking solutions are supported by the program:
LPG
Pressure cookers that run on electricity
Better charcoal briquettes and stoves using bioethanol
Five areas of Tanzania’s mainland are the program’s primary emphasis areas:
Morogoro, Pwani, Dodoma, Mwanza, and Dar es Salaam.
The Request for Applications:
The CookFund Innovations Challenge is open to interested and qualified individuals and businesses from all around Tanzania that are part of the clean cooking value chain. The challenge looks for creative answers in the following fields:
Technology for stoves and fuel
Finance for cooking products
There are behavioral modification strategies that could hasten Tanzania’s adoption and adoption of clean cooking.
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We encourage young people and female entrepreneurs to apply, and we will give their applications extra attention.
Application Guidelines: Please visit https://uncdf.link/innchallenge for the Application Form and the comprehensive Call for Applications Guidelines, which include the eligibility requirements.
Language: English must be used on all application forms.
The deadline for Submission: From November 25, 2024, to December 15, 2024, the application window is open.
Pre-Submission Information Session: To help applicants with application preparation, to explain submission requirements, and to provide them a chance to ask questions, UNCDF will hold an online pre-submission information session.
Please email cookfund.tz@uncdf.org with the subject line “Innovations Challenge Pre-submission Info Session” if you would like to attend this event.
Those who request to participate will be informed of the workshop’s date and time.
Please be aware that applying does not need you to attend the pre-submission information session.
Contact Details:
Please contact UNCDF Tanzania via phone at +255 22 260 0911 or by email at cookfund.tz@uncdf.org with any questions or concerns.
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