Supporting the Development of a Market for LPG Clean Cooking in Nigeria

The Nigeria Energy Support Programme (NESP) is co-funded by the European Union and the German Government – BMZ – and implemented by GIZ in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Power (FMP). It aims at enabling and fostering investments in the fields of renewable energy and energy efficiency. More generally, NESP supports activities to reach selected SDGs in Nigeria, particularly SDG 7 on increasing energy access, renewable energy and energy efficiency, and SDG 13 on Climate Change as well as the Paris Agreement. During NESP I (2013-2017), the Programme, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Environment (FMEnv) and Niger State Government launched the Clean Cooking Intervention which aimed to provide 100 rice parboiling groups with access to improved institutional cookstoves. During NESP II (2017-2022), the Programme, in collaboration with the FMEnv, launched a scheme called Nigerian Institutional Clean Cookstove Acceleration Scheme (NICCAS). The objective of the NICCAS is to facilitate the development of a viable/bankable business model for institutional clean cookstoves in conjunction with the private sector.