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