The project “Promotion of Climate-Friendly Cooking: Kenya and Senegal” (GCF/EnDev) , co-financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF), Kenya’s Ministry of Energy and Petroleum (MoEP), and Senegal’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and Ministry of the Environment and Forestry that commenced at the end March 2020 until September 2025. The Kenyan component of this project, GCF/EnDev Kenya, builds on EnDev Kenya’s experiences in the cooking energy sector. The project is implementing an innovative Improved Cookstoves (ICS) market transformation strategy in Kenya, and further improving global knowledge about ICS sector contribution to Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). It is expected to significantly increase the number of ICS users in Kenya particularly in peri-urban and rural areas. Similarly, the project is expected to  limit the consumption of non-renewable biomass in the cooking sector compared to the baseline situation, leading to greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions.

The project objective is to accelerate the growth of the ICS sector with an irreversible market transformation that will significantly increase the level of ICS production and sales, particularly in more remote and rural locations, thereby enabling Kenya to significantly advance the achievement of the stated NDC goals.