An exploration study on how people of different generations living in the urban areas of Tanzania (Dar es Salaam, Mbeya, and Zanzibar) learn to cook

Country

Tanzania

Location(s) within Country

Dar es Salaam, Mbeya, and Zanzibar

Start Date

October 2022

End Date

January 2023

Name of Client(s)

Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) Programme/ Loughborough University, U.K.

Origin of Funding

UKAid/ Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO)

Name of Partner(s)

None (Individual corporate entity)

Description of the programme/ objectives

MECS is taking different initiatives to support the transition of low-income economies from biomass to the use of modern energy cooking services (i.e., cooking with electricity, gas, or renewable energies). 

It calls for a greater focus on modern energy as the source of clean cooking and has evidenced that cooking with modern energy using energy-efficient appliances can be cost-effective, particularly for urban communities. 

To understand how people of different generations learn to cook in the urban areas of Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, and Rwanda, MECS looked for a consultant to collect data that will be used to understand how people learn to cook.

Description of the services provided/ main activities

Contextual analysis; developing data collection tools; sourcing households and participants and securing their participation in the study; conducting open-ended interviews and focus group discussions to gain a comprehensive and holistic understanding of how people of different generations living in the urban areas of Tanzania learn to cook; compiling and analysing the collected qualitative data; synthesizing findings.