Mekelle: 15 May 2024 (Tigray Herald)
Statement by Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina President, African Development Bank Group Summit for Clean Cooking in Africa – Paris, 14 May 2024
cooking over the next ten years.
We will work with governments to develop and roll out clean cooking solutions at scale, along with supportive policy, standards, safety, and regulations, as well as fiscal incentives to improve access and affordability.
We cannot solve the global clean cooking challenge unless we solve it first in Africa.
I wish to therefore thank H.E. President Samia Suluhu Hassan, for her call for a $12 billion facility to be set aside for the 17th replenishment of the African Development Fund, to drive universal access to clean cooking for women across Africa.
The African Development Bank stands ready to work with countries, the IEA, the African Clean Cooking Consortium, and partners to mobilize the resources to tackle this challenge and get done it—once and for all.
Let us from today create a spark, and trigger a movement, to assure 100% access to clean cooking for women in Africa.
I ask you all to join us on this movement.
Thank you very much.
