Ghana

Overview

22.9M+ (67.2%)

Population without access to clean cooking (Source: WB, 2023)

Active clean cooking ventures (Source: CCA)

Number of clean cooking RBFs (Source: CCA)

Ghana has a nascent clean cooking industry consisting of a small number of local companies across various technologies. There is a large unmet demand for clean cooking, but access rates have remained flat with around one-in-five having access to clean cooking technologies and fuels.

BURN Manufacturing established a factory in Ghana in 2022 (their first factory outside of Kenya). Politically, there is strong support for clean cooking from the office of the former Second Lady, Her Excellency Hajia Samira Bawumia, who is a global ambassador for clean cooking. Ghana is the only country to have twice hosted the global Clean Cooking Forum..

Supply

Demand

According to World Bank data, 32.8% of the population had access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking in 2023, up from 31.5% in 2022. In 2023, just 14.1% of the rural population had access to clean cooking fuels, compared with 48.2% of the urban population.

By comparison, Ghana has greater rates of access to electricity: 89.5% of the population had access in 2023, up from 85.1% in 2022.

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According to the Ghana Consumer Segmentation report (see related resources below), two-fifths of urban households still use charcoal as their primary cooking fuel.

Related Resources

Ghana Consumer Segmentation

Unlocking LPG Finance for Clean Cooking in Nigeria and Ghana

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Policy

Click ‘Read more’ to explore relevant aspects of Ghana’s Nationally Determined Contribution and other policies relevant to clean cooking.

Nationally Determined Contributions

The Ghanaian NDC outlines a mitigation policy to expand the adoption of market-based cleaner cooking solutions. This policy aims to scale up the adoption of LPG use from 5.5% to 50% in peri-urban and rural households by 2030, as well as achieve adoption of 2 million efficient cookstoves by the same year. Despite these objectives, there is a lack of cohesive national policy, strategy, and coordination frameworks for the cookstoves sector, compounded by inadequate regulation. The policy on subsidies for LPG acknowledges a lack of incentives to promote the cooking sector; examples include import duties and taxes on technologies and the regulation of raw material inputs like scrap metal. Consequently, without any obligations for households to use improved cookstoves or LPG, there is no guarantee that the government’s objectives will be achieved. However, the country’s program of activities could create an enabling environment for these objectives to be accomplished.

Source

Ghana NDC

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Carbon

Ghana has 15 registered cookstove projects. These projects have generated 8.4 million carbon credits to date.

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Results Based Finance

To CCA’s knowledge, there have been no clean cooking RBF programs in Ghana, nor are there any active RBF programs at this time.

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