CCASClean Cooking · Somalia
9.4 million Somalis
cook over a fire just like this.
Three meals a day. Fifteen kilograms of charcoal a week. The same open fire held in millions of homes from Banadir to Bay. CCAS was set up in 2026 to retire it — one kitchen at a time, across six concurrent pillars, with sixty members standing behind the work.
The fire that cooks dinner is the leading household killer in the country.
The smoke a Somali woman inhales in an hour at the stove is roughly equivalent to a packet of cigarettes. She is at the stove three hours a day, every day, often with a child on her back. Open-fire cooking fills a kitchen with PM2.5 readings up to 100× the WHO safe limit.
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Charcoal is Somalia’s second-largest export. The forest pays first.
Each kilogram of charcoal destroys roughly four kilograms of standing forest. The IGAD-Sahel basin loses biomass to the export trade at a rate the land does not regrow. That is what the six pillars exist to interrupt.
Six concurrent working groups.
Each pillar has a working-group lead, an open seat for any member, a published 12-month plan and quarterly reporting back to the General Assembly.
Advocacy & legislation
Federal Clean Cooking Strategy. National stove and fuel standards. Tariff & subsidy reform.
Private sector growth
12-week MSME incubator. Distributor matchmaking. Carbon-finance pooling. Women-led enterprise.
Data & evidence
National baseline survey. Quarterly market reports. PM2.5 sensor network across 120 sites.
Capacity building
Government technical assistance. National stove-technician certification. MSME bootcamps.
Coalition & coordination
Quarterly Donor Forum. Humanitarian integration in IDP camps. Active in EAC & IGAD.
Behaviour change
Weekly radio drama on eight stations (2M+ listeners). Women’s-cooperative outreach. School curriculum.
Tier-3 stoves.
Direct delivery. Real follow-up.
Direct delivery. Technician training. Six months of household follow-up. The smoke disappears at source. Three hours come back to her day. The forest stops paying for breakfast. 100% of every gift reaches the kitchen.
“The first stove she got told her, in her own kitchen, that the smoke was not the cooking. The smoke was the fire. We can change the fire.”
Sixty members. One agenda.
Government, private sector, civil society, research, donors, women’s cooperatives, faith-based organisations, humanitarian agencies. Equal voice on the technical, weighted on the financial. The coalition that speaks for the sector.
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Six pillars
How CCAS coordinates Somalia’s clean-cooking transition through six concurrent pillars.
Why CCAS
The mandate, the governance, the reason this national table was set up in 2026.
Stand with us
Sixty members across government, MSME, civil society and research.
Open shelf
Every report, dataset and brief — open access under CC-BY 4.0.
Where we convene
The annual summit, the training weeks, the donor forum.
Latest releases
Programme updates, member spotlights, research releases.
Retire one fire
Every gift puts a Tier-3 clean stove in a Somali kitchen.
Write to us
Replies within five working days from the relevant working-group lead.