CCASClean Cooking · Somalia
Stoves arrive at the kitchen.
The Market working group builds the private sector that finally lets a Tier-3 stove arrive at a Somali kitchen, get installed by a certified technician, and stay working a year later. MSME incubation. Distributor matchmaking. Carbon-finance pooling. Women-led enterprise. Last-mile logistics. This is where the policy floor becomes a stove on a stove rack.
A subsidised stove that nobody installs is a warehouse problem, not a kitchen solution.
The sector is full of donor-funded stove pallets that never reached a household — or reached one without training, and stopped working in three weeks. The Market pillar exists because cooking-fuel transition is logistics-as-much-as-policy: who delivers, who installs, who follows up at month six, who gets paid when the stove still works at month twelve.
The agenda is published.
Cohort 3 opens August 2026 with twelve seats — applications close 2026 · 06 · 30. In parallel: carbon-finance pooling launches in Q3 for member MSMEs unable to register projects individually, and the women-led distributor matchmaking programme expands to Bay and Lower Shabelle.
Read the working-group plan in full→The work, in detail.
Each workstream has a named lead, a published 12-month plan, and a quarterly report to the General Assembly.
12-week MSME incubator
Three cohorts a year. Co-delivered with AfDB. Equity-free. Hardware grants up to $25,000 per cohort.
Distributor matchmaking
Connects manufacturers with last-mile distributors. Currently 14 active manufacturer-distributor pairs across Somalia.
Carbon-finance pool
Member MSMEs that can't register their own carbon projects pool into a CCAS-administered registry. Launches Q3 2026.
Women-led enterprise
Dedicated MSME bootcamp track. Two cohorts a year. Childcare provided. 100% fee-free.
Last-mile logistics
GIS-based routing data, shared cold-chain studies, IDP-camp delivery integration with humanitarian partners.
Standards lab
Joint with Research — independent stove testing rig in Mogadishu, opening Q4 2026, ISO-aligned protocols.
Who leads.
Who can join.
The Market working group is chaired by Halima Yusuf of Banadir Stoves, who placed 1,200 Tier-3 stoves in the Banadir region in twelve months. One open private-sector seat this quarter. Applications close 2026 · 06 · 30.