CCASClean Cooking · Somalia
One country.
One kitchen.
One national table.
For a decade Somalia’s clean-cooking work happened in pockets — donor projects, NGOs, university theses. There was no national table where stove sellers, ministry officials and women’s cooperatives could speak in one voice. CCAS was built to be that table.
Without one table, the same studies get repeated.
Pilots are over-counted by some donors and missed by others. Two ministries publish overlapping baselines. Three NGOs run training weeks for the same fifteen technicians in the same district while a coastal town has none. A donor returns from Mogadishu having spoken to four organisations and unsure which to fund. Somalia’s voice in regional clean-cooking networks goes unrepresented because no single body is mandated to carry it.
CCAS exists so that coordination becomes infrastructure rather than goodwill — so that each new MSME, each new dataset, each new ministry brief lands inside one shared agenda instead of competing pilots. The table is not the work. The table is the precondition for the work to add up.
Three numbers carry everything else.
An independent, non-profit, membership-based national association.
Headquartered in Mogadishu. Established 2026 to be the unifying national platform for clean cooking in Somalia. Governed by a General Assembly of all members which convenes once a year. An elected Steering Committee runs between assemblies. Six pillar working groups carry the day-to-day. An independent Secretariat coordinates the whole.
Decisions are taken in plain sight: every committee meeting publishes minutes, every working-group plan publishes a quarterly report, every member casts one vote on technical questions and weighted votes on financial ones. Membership is open under six categories — government, private sector, civil society, research, donors, and individuals — under bylaws ratified at the founding assembly.
“A national association is not a logo. It is the table that did not exist before — and the discipline of returning to it, every quarter, with results everyone can read.”