Modern Cooking Facility for Africa (MCFA) The Modern Cooking Facility for Africa (MCFA) is an innovative instrument established and managed by Nefco, the Nordic Environment Finance Cooperation, which seeks to develop new, sustainable and commercially viable markets for the clean cooking sector. MCFA will contribute to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 on access to modern, affordable and clean energy access by financially incentivising private companies to develop and sell clean cooking technologies to consumers. 

The objective of MCFA is to enable and incentivise private companies to distribute up to 739,000 modern and clean cooking solutions across six target countries, providing clean cooking access to up to 3.7 million Africans. This objective is based on the first call for proposals and round of funding to cookstove service providers. A second funding round will be launched late 2023, and the targets for the program will be updated according to the new contracts with selected service providers. 

Increasing access to cleaner and more sustainable cooking sollutions, such as sustainably produced bioethanol, bio-LPG, biogas, electric cooking solutions and solid biofuels from sustainable sources, e.g. pellets and briquettes will not only provide energy access, but also help reduce CO2 emissions through reduced deforestation, and improve indoor air quality and reduce respiratory diseases especially for women and children.

MCFA is financed by Sweden, Norway and the European Union, and targets the markets in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi.