NIGERIAN ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN COOKING
Championing Nigeria's Clean Cooking Future
We are a national coalition advancing policies, innovations, and partnerships that make clean cooking the norm – protecting health, empowering communities, and preserving the environment for future generations.
Who we are
The Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (NACC) is a public–private partnership committed to making safe, efficient, and affordable cooking solutions the norm in Nigeria.
- Our Goal: Introduce 10 million clean cookstoves to Nigerian homes and institutions.
- Our Partners: Over 100 organisations including government agencies, stove producers, and community champions.
The continuous advocacy of the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cooking and its alignment with the government’s emission reduction commitment has led to the inclusion of clean cooking as part of Nigeria’s NDC priority sectors, the development of a draft national clean cooking policy and the sustained conversation through various platforms on clean cooking sector growth.
Why Clean Cooking Matters
Discover the challenges Nigerians face with traditional cooking, why urgent action is needed now, and how clean solutions can transform lives and the environment.
The Issue
The Silent Energy Crisis: Nigeria – going up in smoke. 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”.
Why Now
Why haven’t the impacts of cookstove smoke received more attention?
Exposure to harmful cooking smoke has overtime received little or no funding and research attention as compared to other risk factors like malaria and HIV/AIDS. According the World Health Organization, 95,300 deaths occur annually as a result of indoor air pollution from smoke inhalation. This is the third largest killer after Malaria and HIV/AIDS
The Solution
Clean cookstoves save lives, money and our forests. So why doesn’t everyone have one?
A market failure – 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.
News & Insights
Stay informed on the latest stories, events, and breakthroughs from our work with partners and communities nationwide – voices of change driving Nigeria’s clean cooking transformation.
Partner of the Month - FONBOL ENERGY SERVICES NIG LTD
FONBOL Energy Services Nigeria Limited is a renewable energy products distribution company advocating and promoting access/adoption to clean electricity, fuel efficient and improved cooking stoves, and promoting WHO certified drinking water filter/purifier for the poorest as well as advocating for Open Defecation Free (ODF) for most vulnerable people.
The company was registered as a private limited organization and incorporated/licensed on the 29th August, 2017 but became operational in 2019 to advance clean cooking advocacy, tackle energy poverty, promote access to clean/efficient fuels, and to support efforts towards achieving the SDGs 6 & 7
What does your organization seek to achieve in Nigeria's cooking energy market?
The organisation seeks to invest in and distribute clean cooking stoves for the poorest and most vulnerable in Nigeria. To actively participate in the Fuel Efficient and Clean Cookstoves value chain. FONBOL Energy is expected to contribute to the following objectives in Nigeria:
Access to clean cooking technologies in communities;
Improve the health of households in communities by reducing the respiratory risks due to the use of an inefficient cookstoves;
Reduce pressure on forests in communities by using improve cookstoves and less gender inequality
Improve the living conditions of women in communities.
To support the transition, adaptation of clean cooking and thereby contributing to SDG 1, 3, 5, 8, 10 and 13 in Nigeria.