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Kenya Off-Grid Solar Access Project (KOSAP)
Launch: 2018 End: 2023 [2]
Region: SSA
Geography: Kenya
Type: National
ICS Only?: No
Value/Funding: $6 million subcomponent approved on cooking [1]
Funder Type: Multilateral Organization
Funders: World Bank ESMAP
Features:
  • RBF
  • Pilot
  • Description:
    Cooking subcomponent under the Kenya Off-Grid Solar Access Project (KOSAP). The project adopts a results-based financing approach to identify and promote clean cooking technological solutions [1]
    Reach:
    Field test initiative began: selection of eligible stoves in process (20 stoves received, up to 6 to be selected). A market-based approach focused on higher efficiency stoves and local distributors will be taken and results-based cost-sharing grants have been mobilized to remove initial market barriers and grow the market [1]
    Goal/Target:
    Expected to reach 150,000 households with improved cooking solutions [1]
    Sources:
    [1] World Bank ECCH Toolkit March 2019 [2] https://www.lightingafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/KOSAP-1-pager.pdf