A National Integrated Clean Cooking Strategy for Uganda (NICCS)

People in Uganda, like in many sub-Saharan African countries, rely heavily on fuel wood and charcoal burned in traditional devices for cooking and heating. Burning these fuels causes pollution that can damage health and contribute to climate change. Moreover, when harvested unsustainably, wood fuel consumption causes forest degradation and other environmental damage.

To reduce these impacts, the government of Uganda hopes to scale up cleaner cooking options like liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), electric appliances, ethanol and biogas. SEI and our research partners, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, the Centre for Integrated Research and Community Development Uganda (CIRCODU); and the Clean Cooking Alliance worked with Uganda’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMD) and Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE) to develop a National Integrated Clean Cooking Strategy (NICCS).

The project aimed to produce the following outputs: 

1) Synthesize existing policies, map stakeholders in the clean cooking sector and work with stakeholders to co-develop a National Clean Cooking Roadmap; 

2) Develop a Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) framework to monitor progress toward achieving the objectives defined by the plan; 

3) Estimate changes in emissions of climate-forcing and health-damaging pollutants that would result from the NICCS targets.