CookClean is a social entrepreneurship with a mission to improve social, environmental, and economic conditions for low-income families in Ghana and has consequently developed a product distribution range which includes improved cook stoves, water filters and green fuel briquettes.

CookClean produces its Improved Cook Stove " CookMate" in 3 production facilities in Eastern, Ashanti and Brong Ahafo Regions of Ghana.

Within 7 years, CookClean will provide one million families currently suffering from water-borne and smoke-related disease, with safe water supply and clean, efficient cook-stoves. 

The company’s project will also generate 3,000 new jobs within the first 7 years and significantly mitigate deforestation trends.

In the following two phases of 7 years each, the rate of humanitarian and economic benefit will increase and a full transformation of health conditions and kitchen practices will be accomplished.

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CookClean has spent the last 2 year to develop an improved cook stove “CookMate” tailored to Ghanaian needs. Kitchen Performance Test (KPT) performed by third party, (Undergraduate Engineering student of Oxford University) showed 50% fuel savings as compared to the traditional charcoal stove, called “coal pot”  in Ghana.   

The Institute Industrial Research of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of Ghana conducted Water Boiling Test (WBT) and reported that “CookMate” charcoal stove boils twice as fast as the Traditional Coal pot and consumed half the amount of fuel consumed by the Traditional Coal pot.

Pilot production was made in August 2011 situation and serial production expected to be in full swing by the end of 2011. CookClean has projected to manufacture and market 130000 stoves in 2012, with staff number of 36, rising to 157 in 5 years.  

Point of use Water Filter (PWF)

CookClean Point of use Filters are locally-manufactured Ceramic Pot filters made by pressing a mixture of clay and a combustible material (burn-out) into the filter shape, allowing the filter to dry, firing the product to approximately 900°C (1652°F), thus firing out the burn-out, and measuring the flow rate for quality control. In addition, silver is added as a bacteriocide. 

Other Technologies 

The CCL Clean Water Project provides to each community a specific technology and service for clean water supply matched to local conditions and financing constraints. Initial studies undertaken with field agencies have shown that the optimum technologies and services are in order of priority: repair, maintenance and administration of hand-pumps drawing clean water from boreholes (HP), locally made or assembled point-of-use filters (local PF), imported PF, chemical purification, and new borehole installation. The project focuses on the first two, HP and local PF, while continuing to research market acceptance and feasibility/effectiveness of other options.

Women Involvement

To enhance success of the project, CookClean embeds women in its distribution channel as sales agents. The agents are people living in the same communities as the customers. This approach addresses the critical barrier of prevailing practice and over time affects a social transformation toward safe water consumption and fuel-efficient and smoke-free cooking.

 Other technologies

The project will also develop renewable fuels such as crop residue based fuels, and bio-charcoal. It will also disseminate heat retention cookers and small-scale biogas units, and organise green briquette production through Community Production Factories.  

Services

CookClean provides after-sales support for all technologies distributed, ensuring proper use and hygiene practices and 3rd party monitoring and auditing will quantify usage rates, health impacts, and effectiveness. Repairs of broken down Borehole Pumps in Rural Areas

Methodology

The Project follows the Gold Standard methodology for Improved Cook-Stoves and Kitchen Regimes, Version 2, which provides a rigorous method for measurement of emission reductions from clean water technologies and cook-stoves, as well as the other technologies encompassed by the project. 

ClimateCare - Our Carbon Assets Developers & Managers

ClimateCare, one of the oldest and most respected organisations in the carbon market, has a working agreement with CookClean Ghana to develop and manage the carbon assets of CookClean’s project in Ghana and West Africa. Its world leading experts develop and consult on innovative Emission Reduction projects globally – with a focus on Sub Saharan Africa and the Least Developed Countries and has over 8 years' experience of reducing CO2 emissions from domestic cooking and water purification.

Emission Reductions

The emission reductions will be accredited to equivalent rigour to UNFCCC standards under the CDM, by the Gold Standard Foundation, with the additional advantage of accreditation by the GS of the non-carbon benefits.