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This year’s Clean Cooking Forum in Accra, Ghana will feature a number of site visit options on Thursday afternoon. All attendees who wish to participate in a site visit will need to register.

Please register here: https://www.etouches.com/forumsitevists

 

Option 1: Accra Enterprise Field Visits

During this field visit attendees will visit three Enterprises located in Accra: Toyola, Manufacturing and Assembly Center, CookClean Ghana Ltd. Production Center; and Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company Ltd.


Toyola, Manufacturing and Assembly Center
During this visit, participants will see observe firsthand local manufacturing and assembly of improved charcoal cookstoves that contain locally made and imported components. Toyola’s CEO Mr. Suraj Olobguro will discuss the enterprise’s distribution methods and business model. Toyola is a Catalytic Small Grants grantee of the Alliance.


CookClean Ghana Ltd. Production Center
During the afternoon sessions, participants will visit improved cookstove manufacturing centers that were founded by two pioneers of the Ghanaian sector. Each manufacturer will introduce their business model to the group and provide a tour of their facilities. CookClean’s factory produces 5,000 to 10,000 improved charcoal cookstove per year with plans to scale operations. CookClean is an Alliance Catalytic Small Grants grantee.

 

Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company Ltd.
During this visit, participants will observe the manufacturing process of LPG cylinders in Ghana. Ms. Elizabeth Yawa Morny, CEO at Ghana Cylinder, will introduce the group to the company’s business model and provide a tour of its facilities.

Approximate Length of Trip: 5 hours

 

Option 2: Ghana Girl Guides

During this visit, participants will have the opportunity to engage with youth leaders on their efforts to raise awareness among their families and communities about traditional cooking and the benefits of clean cookstoves and fuels. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with youth leaders on their efforts to raise awareness among their families and communities about traditional cooking and the benefits of clean cookstoves and fuels and have the opportunity to visits some of the homes of using the clean cookstoves and fuels in the community. The Girl Guides members will present on a cookstoves pilot that the Alliance supported and discuss their learnings and impact.

Approximate Length of Trip: 6 hours

 

Option 3: Kodiabe Field Visits

Participants will engage with women who cook for a school feeding program, and provide an opportunity to observe the problems associated with traditional cooking and the solutions in a rural setting.


National School Feeding Program in Kodiabe, Manya Krobo District
Participants will have the opportunity to interact with women who cook for 300-400 schoolchildren every day as part of the primary school feeding program, a national initiative that that provides free meals for students. This session will explore the health and environmental impacts of traditional cookstoves and the benefits of using clean burning fuels, such as LPG, in institutional settings.

 

Visit to Rural Households in Kodiabe, Manya Krobo District
A short drive from the school, participants will observe two to three households in this rural community that burn firewood over open fires, traditional stoves, or improved cookstoves.

Estimated Total Trip Time: 5 hours

 

Option 4: Field Visit to Coastal Peri-Urban Communities (Chorkor)

(Group 1; departs at 10:30 a.m.)

Participants will observe the use of traditional and improved cookstoves in coastal, peri-urban households. This visit will provide an opportunity to view the socioeconomic conditions faced by women and men whose homes, incomes, and health are impacted by use of open fires or traditional stoves for cooking and smoking fish to sell in local markets.

Approximate trip time: 4 hours

 

Option 5: Field Visit to Coastal Peri-Urban Communities (Chorkor)
(Group 2; departs at 12:00 p.m.)

Participants will observe the use of traditional and improved cookstoves in coastal, peri-urban households. This visit will provide an opportunity to view the socioeconomic conditions faced by women and men whose homes, incomes, and health are impacted by use of open fires or traditional stoves for cooking and smoking fish to sell in local markets.

Approximate trip time: 4 hours

 

Option 6: Greater Accra Cultural Visits

Participants will tour the cultural sites within the Greater Accra area to include: the National Museum, Independence Square, Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, and the Osu Castle.

 

Option 7: Palm Kernel Processing Plant
(Group 1; will depart at 10:30 a.m.)

Participants will travel to Jei Krodua in the Central Region of Ghana to visit Adam Palm Kernel Processing Group.  The visit will include a tour of the plan with the owner, Adam Yakuba. The processing plant provides a school for children of women who work on site and also supplies the region with free fuels.  This site visit will also include the opportunity to visit homes where the Phillips stoves are in use.

Approximate trip length: 4 hours

 

Option 8: Palm Kernel Processing Plant
(Group 2; will depart at 12:30 p.m.)

Participants will travel to Jei Krodua in the Central Region of Ghana to visit Adam Palm Kernel Processing Group.  The visit will include a tour of the plan with the owner, Adam Yakuba. The processing plant provides a school for children of women who work on site and also supplies the region with free fuels.  This site visit will also include the opportunity to visit homes where the Phillips stoves are in use.

Approximate trip length: 4 hours

 

Option 9: Tour of Local Cookstove Markets

Visits the local markets of Ashiama-Labaran, Timba Market Accra and Makola market to see the artisans who are producing and selling stoves in the local Accra Market.

Estimated trip time: 4 hours

Please register here: https://www.etouches.com/forumsitevists