Tanzania’s aspirations for a clean cooking energy transition are gaining momentum as stakeholders work towards overcoming policy and market challenges facing the cooking energy sector in Tanzania. The current momentum is the consequence of the external and internal influence of implementing the SDG7 and SE4All and the efforts of the Government through the support of the President of the United Republic of Tanzania Hon Dr. Samia Suluhu Hassan. Clean cooking has been rated low and unaffordable by most rural and urban end-users. According to the Energy Access Report (2020), only 3 percent of Tanzanians are cooking with electricity.

Other households amounting to 5 percent are cooking with LPG while most Tanzanian households (over 80 percent) are cooking with wood-fuels, seriously impacting health and forests. The workshop was organized by TaTEDO-SESO in collaboration with the Clean Cooking Alliance of Tanzania (CCAT) and Sustainable Energy Forum (SEF) with support from the World-Wide Fund (WWF).The workshop's main objective is to dialogue with policy and decision-makers to debate how to develop the cooking subsector in Tanzania and increase the population cooking with clean cooking solutions from less than 10 to 80 percent by 2034.