Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are the main instruments put forward by countries to deliver on the promise of the Paris Agreement adopted on 12 December 2015. They constitute an articulation of governments’ commitment to tackle climate change, including emissions mitigation pledges and adaptation related targets, that countries consider achievable through various actions and investments that align with development priorities.

The implementation of the Tanzania SE4ALL AA was planned to be on four stages to allow continuous review, and for the development of several IPs that are tailored to address specific issues. These stages include; Transition (2015-2016), Transformation/operationalization (2016-2020), Consolidation (2020-2025) and Acceleration (2025-2030).

During transition period, the main focus was on integrating the AA and IP into the government mid-term planning process by incorporating them into the Ministry of Energy (MoE) Five-year Strategic Plan (2016–2020). As part of that process, the government was to start a national dialogue with all stakeholders at national and sub-national level towards the adaptation, updating and alignment of the existing initiatives with the country’s SE4ALL AA; which was not done

Tanzania National Energy Policy 2015 shows the dominance of biomass use in the form of charcoal and firewood at 85% contribution to the total energy consumption. According to the World Bank report, (Tracking SDG 7, the Energy Progress Report, 2019) 2.96 billion people worldwide have no access to clean cooking energy.

Population growth between 2010 and 2017 in Sub-Saharan Africa was 2.5% annually, Tanzania stands at 2.7% as reported by the National Bureau of Statistics in 2018, while the annual change in the share of the region’s population with access to clean cooking solutions was less than 0.3% annually. For this reason, the access-deficit population in this region increased from less than 750 million in 2010 to around 900 million in 2017.

This means the number of population without access to Clean Cooking Solutions kept increasing, hence posing a threat to the environment and peoples’ health and life

By Megan Bomba (Nexleaf Analytics), Chelestino Balama (TAFORI), Mary Swai (SESCOM), Richard Sieff (Loughborough University), Eric Wright (Nexleaf Analytics).

A recent MECS-ECO (Electric Cooking Outreach) pilot project has added to the body of evidence of how electric pressure cookers (EPCs) could enable transitions to cooking with electricity. Following in the footsteps of several other pilot projects involving EPCs, the project aimed to understand how EPCs would be received by grid-connected households in Morogoro Municipality, Tanzania. The project distributed EPCs to 50 households and evaluated EPC use with cooking diaries, data loggers, and feedback surveys on customer experience, while also assessing appliance financing models. The project was led by the Sustainable Energy Services Company (SESCOM), with implementation from the Tanzania Forestry Research Institute (TAFORI) and data analysis from Nexleaf Analytics. 

Other studies have demonstrated that Tanzanian foods can be successfully cooked using an EPC, and that the EPCs also have potential within micro and mini grid systems, depending on price point and power availability. However, grid-connected households (as focussed on in this study) are also an important potential market for EPCs, especially as the impacts of charcoal use in cities increases and countries aim to achieve universal electrification access. 

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