Modern Cooking Facility for Africa

The Modern Cooking Facility for Africa is a new financing programme supporting scale-up of clean cooking solutions in six Sub-Saharan African countries. The aim of the programme is to provide over 3 million people in Africa with access to clean, modern and affordable cooking solutions by the end of 2027.

Eligible applicants

  • The Modern Cooking Facility for Africa programme is targeted at incentivizing privately owned cooking service companies to accelerate access to modern, higher tier cooking solutions.
  • Individual Cooking Service Providers (companies) and Project Consortiums can apply for funding.
  • Applicants should be legally incorporated and included in the register of for-profit companies in a MCFA project country or commit to being incorporated and registered as such before signing a possible contract.
  • Applicants should further be in compliance with all tax, regulatory and legal frameworks in both their home country and the project country (if different).
  • Applicants are allowed to include non-profit entities, public institutions, community-based organizations or other non-commercial entities to take part in the project implementation as Project Partners or Consortium Members.

Eligible project countries

The first funding round will support projects in six Sub-Saharan African countries; the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

 

Eligible project types and technologies

  • The first Modern Cooking Facility for Africa funding round (MCFA1) can support Cooking Service Providers’ sales of electric, solar thermal, biogas and bioethanol stoves that meet Tier 4-5 performance standards and briquette and/or pellet stoves that meet Tier 3 and above performance standards.
  • An Applicant is required to indicate relevant supply of fuels that meets the MCFA1 requirements for eligible supply of clean cooking services. MCFA1 can further support  an integrated ‘tool and fuel’ business model.

Please note that;

  • stoves using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) are excluded from the MCFA1 funding round.
  • The MCFA1 will incentivize, in particular, projects deploying pay-as-you-go business models and clean cooking technologies using stove-use monitoring.

Funding opportunities

Financing can be disbursed flexibly, including up to 30% up front as a non-reimbursable catalytic grant component and the rest as results-based finance. Up-front payments can be made for Cooking Service Providers to:

  • establish their business in a new market
  • roll out and scale themselves as a company already active in one of the project countries
  • launch a new Tier 4-5 or Tier 3+ product
  • implement a PAYGO business model

 

For all details and Application for funding: https://www.nefco.int/fund-mobilisation/funds-managed-by-nefco/modern-cooking-facility-for-africa/

The application system will close on 21 June 2022 at 12:00 Helsinki time (UTC +3).

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