• Spark+ Africa Fund provides $1 million loan to VisionFund Ghana

• Funds support rollout of clean cooking loans, starting with improved stoves

• Deal targets clean cooking access gap across sub-Saharan Africa

Spark+ Africa Fund, an impact investment fund managed by Enabling Qapital, said on Wednesday it had provided a $1 million, 24-month debt facility to VisionFund Ghana to support the rollout of clean cooking solutions in the country.

VisionFund Ghana said it will use the funds to build a clean-cooking loan portfolio. It launched a pilot project in June 2025, initially financing improved biomass stoves supplied by local partners, and may later expand to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and electric stoves. The programme will start in four branches before expanding nationwide.

“Partnering with Spark+ to secure funding to support our clean cooking portfolio is a very strategic step towards ensuring that children, who are the main focus of our interventions, live in households that adopt clean cooking solutions for their daily nourishment while also contributing to the sustainability of the environment for their future benefit,” said Frank Alornu, CEO of VisionFund Ghana.

The transaction is part of a series of recent Spark+ financings aimed at supporting clean cooking in Africa. In November 2025, the fund provided $6.4 million to Baobab Group Côte d’Ivoire to extend loans for LPG and other clean cooking solutions. In August 2025, Henos Energy received $1.23 million to strengthen LPG distribution in Ghana. Spark+ has also supported a project with Envirofit linked to carbon credits from improved stoves and provided $3 million to Altech Group in the Democratic Republic of Congo to expand local production of improved stoves.

About 900 million people in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to clean cooking solutions, estimates show, making it one of the region’s biggest energy challenges alongside access to electricity.

Abdoullah Diop