CCASClean Cooking · Somalia
Hands that can fix it.
The Skills working group builds the human capacity that keeps a clean-cooking transition going after the launch ribbon. National stove-technician certification. Government technical assistance. MSME founder bootcamps. Carbon-finance practitioner training. Women's cooperative pipelines. Every cohort closes with a written assessment and a public register of the technicians and founders who passed.
A stove without a trained hand lasts three weeks.
The sector is littered with deployed stoves that stopped working because nobody in the district was trained to fix them. The Skills pillar exists to make sure the next stove deployed in Bay region has a certified technician within an hour's drive, on a public register, with a six-month follow-up scheduled.
The agenda is published.
The August 2026 carbon-finance bootcamp opens 2026 · 06 · 30 — twelve seats for member MSMEs. The November cooperative training week in Bay region runs five days with childcare provided. Cohort 03 of stove-technician certification in Hargeisa starts 2026 · 07 · 02.
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.
Stove-technician certification
Five-day intensive. Federal voucher available for licensed technicians. Certificate listed on the public register.
Carbon-finance bootcamp
Twelve seats. Three cohorts a year. Co-delivered with the African Carbon Markets Initiative.
Women's cooperative training
Five-day MSME-founder pipeline. Childcare provided. Two cohorts a year, by request from cooperatives.
Government TA programme
Embedded technical assistance to ministries and federal-member-state energy departments. Two-year secondments.
MSME bootcamps
12-week residential. Co-delivered with the Market pillar. Three cohorts a year. Twelve seats per cohort.
Trainer-of-trainers
Two-week course for senior technicians moving into instructor roles. One cohort a year. Co-delivered with Hargeisa University.
Who leads.
Who can join.
The Skills working group is chaired by Eng. Asha Warsame, former director of the Hargeisa Technical Institute energy programme. Two open seats this quarter — research category, individual category.