Saudi Arabia grants Kenya Sh2.5Bn for clean cooking project
The KES2.5 billion ($20 million) grant from Saudi Arabia through the Middle East Green Initiative (MGI) will be invested in clean cooking initiatives across the country.
Kenya has received about KES2.5 billion ($20 million) funding from Saudi Arabia through the Middle East Green Initiative (MGI) for investment in clean cooking initiatives.
The financing will help Kenya to scale up LPG stove distribution, advance climate action, public health and livelihoods, an update from Environment Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale said.
The deal will also help open economic opportunities for women and youth, Duale noted during a meeting with a delegation from Saudi Arabia led by Dr Abdul Karim Almutairi (Senior Advisor) and Eng Reema Al-Ashgar (Manager - Nairobi) from the Clean Cooking Project.
The grant is set to facilitate the provision of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) stoves across various households.
The government plans to ensure a 100 percent transition into clean cooking solutions in the next five years. Out of this, 50 percent of households should have LPG stoves within that period.
Currently, the government plans to distribute 60,000 six kilo gas cylinders to various households this financial year and is setting up LPG infrastructure in various public schools across the country.
Thus the funding, meant to boost the distribution of LPG cooking stoves, aligns with the government’s Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA) climate action plan and livelihoods ambition of creating economic opportunities for women and youth.
