The global clean cooking access gap remains significant, with approximately 2.1 billion people still lacking access to clean cooking solutions. Despite the urgent need and its direct link to achieving universal access under Sustainable Development Goal 7, commitments to clean cooking have been highly volatile and inequitable, with many countries receiving no funding between 2014 and 2022.
Much of the existing literature on clean cooking investments tends to focus on estimating investment needs, rather than tracking what is invested through primary data capture. This report seeks to identify and share the findings from a survey of 100 governments that are most reliant on polluting cooking fuels about their clean cooking investments, supplemented with findings from the literature review.