CASE STUDIES: CLEAN COOKING
MADAGASCAR: WHERE ONLY 1.6 PERCENT HAS ACCESS TO CLEAN
COOKING Representatives from the governments of Madagascar and Saudi Arabia, UNIDO and the OPEC Fund set the scene for Madagascar, a developing island country in the Indian Ocean. Only 1.6 percent of the population has access to clean fuels and its electrification rate stands at just 24 percent – 10 percent below the average in sub-Saharan Africa. Some 80 percent of primary forests have been lost, partly for cooking firewood, while as many as 17,000 deaths per year are attributed to indoor air pollution from traditional cookstoves. Given the urgency of the energy
transition in Madagascar, the OPEC Fund is launching the first pilot project in the country, co-funded by some US$200 million, with US$35 million contributed by the OPEC Fund. The project will provide sustainable clean cooking and reforestation while supporting the development of the private sector and ecotourism. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will join the pilot with three priorities: providing households with clean cookstoves powered mainly by solar energy and liquid petroleum gas; investing in reforestation, agribusiness and ecotourism; and empowering females through education and employment opportunities.
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We are very pleased to expand further our cooperation with SEforALL with the aim to unlock much-needed investments for clean cooking. Innovative planning and finance mechanisms can unleash the huge global potential of clean cooking and provide safer, cleaner and more efficient use of energy resources in households.
Dr. Abdulhamid Alkhalifa, Director-General OPEC Fund
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