Malawi Clean Cooking Fund is a $1.1 million dollar performance-based grant fund (PBG) designed to increase the supply of, and demand for alternative cooking energies and fuel-efficient cokking technologies in Malawi, as well as the supply of sustanaible wood fules from well-managed forest resources. The Malawi Clean Cooking is structured to support and improve adoption of market-based improved cookstove and sustainable fuel supply chain solutions in ubarn Malawi (Window 1), and the delivery and adoption of fuel-effecient cooking technologies in select rural areas (window2).
ELIGIBILITY
APPLICANTS
Local and Internationalnprivate sector organisations and other qualified partners, including cleaner cooking manufacturers, retailers, last mile distributors, and other clean cooking value chain actors (including independent agent networks) who are interested in improving the adoption of alternative cooking energies and /or improved cooking technologies by targeted urban and rural house holds are eligible to apply.
COOKING TECHNOLOGIES AND FUELS
The following cooking fuels, technologies, and tiers are eligible for grant awards:
- Rier 1: Simple Improved Cookstoves (charcoal and wood);
- Tier 2: Intermediate Cookstoves (charcoal and wood);
- Tier 3: Ultra Efficient Cookstoves (charcola and biomassgasfiers);
- Tier 4: Non-Biomass (e.g., biogas, electrick, ethanol, LPG, solar); and
- Corresponding Fuel Supply Chains
GRANT AVAILABILITY AND SIZE
Multiple grants are anticipated. Grants are anticipated to range between $10,000 and $250,000. However, U.S. based organisations will be limited to $100,000 per grant. The award amounts will depend on the proposed grants activity scope and performance and performance milestones. Awardees must demostrate the ability to leverage other finace (e.g. private/equity/carbon/other finance). Subject to the availability of funds, assistance will be in the form of Fixed Amount Award grant agreement with payments made based on achievement of pre-negotiated perfomance milestones.
GRANT ACTIVITY LOCATION
Applicants applying to Window 1 should propose activities that will be implemented in one or more of the target cities: Lilongwe, Blantyre, Mzuzu and ZOmba. Applicants applying Window 2 should propose implementation within the 2-kilometer buffer of all selected Forest Reserves within atleast one target MCHF Landscape (Note: the Central Landscape include four Forest Reserves-Dedza-Salima Escarpment, Dzalanyama, Mua-Livulezi, and Thuma; and the Northen Landscape includes three Forest Reserves-Bunganya, Kaning’ina and Perekezi)
KEY TENETS OF THE MALAWI CLEAN COOKING FUND
- Inclusive
- Scalability
- Sustainability
- Private Sector-Led
TIMING AND APPLICATION
The Malawi Clean Cooking Fund will be launched on 25 November 2020, and the Request for Application (RFA) will be released on 26 November 2020. To register for the launch event, please register online at www.tinyurl.com/mwcleancooking. When you hav register for the launch event, you will also have an opportunity to request to receive the RFA. If your organisation is unable to attend the launch event but would like to receive the RFA, please email the Grants Specialist at grants@tetratechmalawi.org.
Malawi Clean Cooking Fund applicants may submit one Phase One Application per Window in response to the Clean Cooking Fund RFA. More detailed information on the two windows is includeed below.
WINDOW 1
Objectve: Through market mechanisms, incentivize the establishment/scaling of sustainable supply chains for clean cookstove and/or alternative cooking fuel solutions that demostrably reduce urban household consumption of illegally and unsustainably produced charcoal.
Timeline:3-24 months
Approximate Overall Value: $950,000-$1,050,000
Geographic Focus: The four cities of Blantyre, Lilongwe, Mzuzu and Zomba
WINDOW 2
Objective: Withina 2-km buffer of all selected Forest Reserves within a specific landscape, deliver cost effective solutions that increases household adoption of efficient firewood coostoves and demonstrate a reduction in firewood consumption.
Timeline: 3-18 months
Approximate Overall Value: $50,000-$150,000
Geographic Focus: Buffer zones of the seven Forest Reserves: Dedza-Salima Escarpment, Dzalanyama, Mua-Luvulezi, Thuma, Bunganya, Kaning’ina, Perekezi.
CONTACT
The Malawi Clean Cooking Fund has been designed through the USAID and UK aid-funded Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests in Malawi (MCHF) Activity, in coordination with the Government of Malawi. MCHF, in its efforts to promote sustainable forest management and energy options, to mainatain forest cover, and to reduce land-based emissions, will manage the Fund and all wards.
For more information on the Malawi Clean Cooking Fund or on the MCHF activity, please contact the Grants and Subcontracts Manager at grants@tetratechmalawi.org and include “Malawi Clean Cooking Fund” in the subject line.
Source: The Nation_November 20, 2020