Under the Global Electric Cooking Coalition (GeCCo) banner, MECS Programme is currently working in partnership with the Government of Sierra Leone to assess the readiness for mass scale up of electric cooking (eCooking) with the following aims:
- Drive the demand/usage of electricity for cooking – delivering both enhanced access to clean cooking and healthier power suppliers at all scales, thereby increasing their capacity to deliver access.
- Help bridge the gap in clean cooking access (an objective that is grossly off track from the 2030 SDG 7.1.2 target after a mere 12% increase over the past decade, a trend that will leave a quarter of the world’s people without access to clean cooking in 2030) by providing a powerful new aspirational choice for consumers of different types.
- Raise the level of political ambition (globally and nationally) for accelerating the rapid adoption of eCooking solutions via clear and consistent messaging about its advantages.
- Support accelerated improvement in households’ tiers of access – delivering affordable access to eCooking is also important to allow those already accessing improved cookstoves to transition to stoves that provide greater health, climate, and social benefits.
- Support decarbonisation of households and institutions by shifting them from biomass, with its associated contribution to deforestation and toxic emissions (CO2 and black carbon) whilst ensuring that electric cooking is promoted alongside power sector decarbonization, thereby avoiding problematic lock-in to fossil fuel-based cooking fuels.
Important informatio
- The tender exercise is managed by Loughborough University.
- Please send all responses to mecs@lboro.ac.uk with the subject ‘Sierra Leone Readiness Assessment Proposal’.
- All proposals must be received by 19th August 2024, 23:00 BST.