Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Traditional cooking methods are a health risk, they cause deforestation and climate change, and they are unnecessarily expensive to some of the world’s poorest people.
90 million Nigerians, and almost all public institutions, cook with wood on the traditional “three-stone fire”.
Clean cookstoves save lives, money and our forests. So why doesn’t everyone have one?
Despite the many benefits of clean cookstoves the market to supply them is undeveloped.
This stems from both policy and market failures: a lack of education about the benefits of clean cookstoves, weak government policies, poor stove quality and insufficient access to finance.
The Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves will build a public-private partnership to introduce 10 million fuel-efficient stoves to Nigerian homes and institutions by 2020.
Alliance partners: Alliance membership is open to organisations with at least one of the following resources: a) influence on policy, b) financing capacity and c) knowledge resources.
These organisations have joined the Alliance: Federal Ministry of Health, Federal Ministry of Environment, Federal Ministry of Women Affairs, Energy Commission of Nigeria, Shell Petroleum Development Company, Oando Plc, USAID, GTZ-Nigeria, First City Monument Bank and International Centre for Energy, Environment & Development.
