Lia Oker-Blom

Sweden and Nefco launch a new facility to support the scale-up of clean cooking technologies in Africa

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A new facility has been established to support the development and scale-up of clean cooking technologies in Africa, with an initial SEK 275 million (~EUR 27.8 million) of financing from Sweden. The Modern Cooking Facility for Africa (MCFA) will develop new markets for the clean cooking sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia through results-based financing for private sector actors.

Beyond the Grid Fund for Zambia: Verification and customer insights for implementing energy service subscriptions in Zambia – New report published

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Nefco commissioned 60 Decibels, a global, tech-enabled impact measurement company, to conduct an independent verification of the Beyond the Grid Fund for Zambia (BGFZ). In April 2021, the team completed over 600 phone surveys with randomly selected customers of four participating Energy Service Providers (ESP) across Zambia.

Реалізований проєкт з енергоефективності в Луцьку вже дозволяє заощаджувати на енерговитратах і покращувати навчальне середовище

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Енергоефективні, термомодернізовані дитячі садки, школи, заклади культури та спорту в Луцьку дозволять значно скоротити споживання тепла та електроенергії, зменшити викиди CO2 та покращити навчальне середовище для понад 26 000 дітей та вчителів міста.

Modern clean cooking technologies provide the greatest impact

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Nefco and Sweden have undertaken an initiative, the Scaling of Clean Cooking Solutions Programme. A detailed scoping exercise was carried out in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Mozambique, DRC and Tanzania, looking into ways to test the use of results-based financing and associated finance to incentivise the rollout of innovative, clean cooking solutions at scale.

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