CCASClean Cooking · Somalia
Two million listening kitchens.
The Awareness working group runs the weekly radio drama on eight stations, the women's-cooperative outreach programme, the school curriculum module on household air pollution, and the faith-leader engagement track. It is the pillar that gets a kitchen to want a Tier-3 stove before the technician arrives — and to keep wanting it six months later.
A subsidised stove that nobody wants ends up cold.
Decades of household-energy programmes have shown that behaviour change is not a leaflet — it is a relationship. The Awareness pillar exists because a clean-cooking transition is, at the household level, a story about smoke, dignity, time, and family economy. The story has to travel further than the stove does.
The agenda is published.
The 2026 national air campaign launches Q1 2027 — pre-production starts in Q4 2026 across radio, TV, mosques and schools. In parallel: the radio drama enters season three with twelve new episodes, the schools module expands to two new federal-member states, and a major faith-leader convening lands in Mogadishu in October.
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.
Weekly radio drama
Eight stations. 30-minute drama plus 10-minute call-in. Season three runs Q3-Q4 2026, twelve episodes.
Schools module
P5-P8 module on household air pollution. 180 schools enrolled. Targets 400 schools by end of 2027.
Women's cooperative outreach
46 cooperatives. Monthly meeting in each. Combined membership of 11,400 women. Co-delivered with the Skills pillar.
Faith-leader engagement
Major convening in Mogadishu, October 2026. Joint sermon-week initiative across mosques and churches.
National air campaign
Launches Q1 2027. Radio, TV, mosques, schools. Co-funded across donors via the Partners pillar.
Household ambassadors
Trained community members who own a Tier-3 stove and host a monthly open-kitchen for neighbours. 240 active.
Who leads.
Who can join.
The Awareness working group is chaired by Khadra Adan, Bay Cooperatives, former producer at Radio Mogadishu drama unit. Two open seats this quarter — civil society category, individual category.
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Research
Audience evaluation is run by Research
Skills
Outreach training is delivered through Skills
Partners
Campaign is co-funded across donors
All six pillars
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