PRIME Minister Kassim Majaliwa has instructed ministries, departments and public institutions to prepare clean cooking energy implementation strategies and action plans which align with the government roadmap.
Premier Majaliwa made the instructions in the National Assembly on Wednesday, while adjourning the 11th session of the 12th Parliament, until August 29th this year.
“To realise the country’s vision, the government is well prepared to supervise the use of clean cooking energy by putting in place stable strategic plans,” he said.
Mr Majaliwa said the government is embarking on increasing citizens and institutions’ awareness on the importance of using clean cooking energy, enabling sustainable, easy access and affordable infrastructures for cooking energy.
The Premier said other efforts that the government focuses on is to make sure that the community abandons the environmentally unfriendly energy by preparing and harmonising policies, laws, regulations and facilitative directives to make sure the government’s good intention of securing the environment is realised.
Majaliwa’s directives align well with President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s instructions made in November 2022 during the official launch of the two-day Clean-Cooking Conference held in Dar es Salaam.
During the conference, President Samia instructed the formation of a national taskforce comprising stakeholders from both public and private sector to review existing policies. She said the taskforce should be chaired by the Prime Minister.
Further the government promotes investments in clean energy among the small sectors and broadens research and technological innovations in the clean cooking energy to empower implementation of projects for clean energy.
Recently, the Ministry of Energy issued 100 gas tubes for each parliamentarian as a way of sensitizing the use of clean cooking energy, instead of using charcoal and firewood.
The use of clean cooking energy in Tanzania ranges between 4.5 per cent and 8 per cent, while the global average is 70 per cent.
Conversely, 80 per cent of Tanzania’s households use environmentally unfriendly energy resources as sources of cooking energy, something that causes health risks to mostly among women.
The adoption of clean cooking energy is part of the government effort to abide by Sustainable Development Goal (SGD) number seven, which calls for affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030.
