Nigeria’s Clean Cooking Ambition

Clean Cooking is gaining prominence in Nigeria as it lies at the intersection of climate action and development. Nigeria has made progress in advocating for clean cooking through the development of the National Clean Cooking Policy (2024) and its Implementation Plan. However, the e-Cooking component is not well fleshed out in the National Clean Cooking Policy Implementation Plan, hence limiting the opportunities to harness the potential of e-Cooking solutions.

For e-Cooking to move from ambition to practice, a well-defined implementation framework is essential. It must go beyond high-level commitments and address the practical realities that shape adoption and scaling, including affordability, electricity reliability and availability, efficient supply chains as well as gender dynamics to ensure inclusive and sustained uptake.

Achieving this requires a strong and coordinated partnerships between the public and private sectors. The public sector creates a robust enabling environment that provides legal, institutional and operational rules, including targeted incentives. The private sector uses the enabling environment as a strategic tool to ensure operational stability, market access and competitive advantage, including standards for fair competition and innovative financing models.

AGNES’ support to Nigeria’s e-cooking pathway

The African Group of Negotiators Experts Support (AGNES) in partnership with National Council on Climate Change (NCCC), the Federal Ministry of Environment and the Federal Ministry of Power with support from the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) – a UNEP-convened initiative, are implementing the project “Integrating eCooking in Nigeria’s Clean Cooking Policy Implementation Plan and funding proposals for implementing e-cooking”. The project responds to a national request to strengthen the e-cooking component of the Clean Cooking Policy Implementation Plan and develop funding proposals for implementation.