Clean Cooking Alliance Venture Accelerator
Key Dates and Information
About The Clean Cooking Alliance Venture Accelerator
The Clean Cooking Alliance Venture Accelerator has been designed to support clean cooking SMEs in West Africa to enhance their opportunities to accessing carbon financing commitments while promoting climate goals. The main objective of the program is to provide tailored technical assistance towards creating an enabling platform for SMEs in the clean cooking industry to become investment ready and access carbon financing. The program aims to:
- Enhance carbon related technical and operational capacity in clean cooking enterprises and project developers
- Increase mobilization of carbon finance for clean cooking enterprises - by reducing risks for pre-financiers and carbon buyers
- Support ecosystem efforts geared towards building Africa's participation in carbon markets by supporting the growth of carbon project developers.
Key Features of the CCA Programme
This program aims to do the following
Tailored Technical Assistance
Enhance carbon related technical and operational capacity in clean cooking enterprises and project developers
Coaching & Training
Access to expert coaches/ mentors to help with capacity building as well as designing an implementation of carbon finance strategy.
Support
Post-program support through relationships with investors and collaborators in the larger clean cooking community.
Eligibility Criteria
- Must have a full-time management team
- Business should be domiciled in West Africa
- Minimum sales revenue of USD 100K in the last financial year
- Must have at least three years of operating history and a proven business model
- Be committed to participate in a 5-day, in-person bootcamp in Ghana in November 2023
- Female-led/founded/co-founded and locally founded enterprises are encouraged to apply
- Ability to commit at least four days per month to the program over a 4-to-5-month period
Programme Benefits
This is what you can get from our programme.
Assistance
Assistance with the process of structuring, registering or implementing carbon projects.
Network Support
Linkages to ecosystems players that pre-finance carbon projects
