26/08/2026
Our Founder Bro Omil Innocent Deckoks' over the years engagements with two initiatives in Kenya has given him the opportunity to see this transition from two complementary perspectives.
Through his work as an Environmental Planner, he engaged with Faith Engineering - Steel Fabricators' 'Meko Friendly Steam Cooking System' an innovative clean-cooking solution. This early experience allowed him to look at clean cooking through the lens of environmental planning, with a focus on; resource efficiency, emissions reduction and the potential for locally developed technologies, under the private sector, to contribute to Kenya's low-carbon pathway and in meeting her Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) targets.
The second experience was very different, in a non-governmental organization but none the less very informative. As a Project Assistant with Care International in Kenya, under his Program Manager then, Ms. Marlene Achoki. Here he also worked in other complementary projects therein, with other 'Seniors' among them Mr. Nicholas Abuya, Mr. Obed Koringo , Mr. Robert Muthami and Mr. Collins Otieno. He gained exposure under a Green Climate Fund climate-friendly cooking programme, including the realities of implementing GCF supported climate interventions on the ground, the bottlenecks, lessons learnt and the paradigm shift potential.
These experiences overtime helped Mr. Bro Omil Innocent Deckoks appreciate that climate financing and supported innovations & technologies, ultimately have to translate into real improvements in people's lives. For vulnerable and rural households for instance, the away from traditional biomass ought to be gradual in my view, and intersects with among others; , , health considerations, household decision-making, technology adoption and the realities of daily life.
In his view, the success of Kenya's clean-cooking transition will not only depend on the technologies we develop, but on how effectively we bridge , , and the 'lived realities' of the people expected to adopt them. Kenya's evolving clean-cooking agenda presents an enormous opportunity to advance equitable energy access, improved livelihoods and a just energy transition.
Ministry of Environment, Climate Change & Forestry Nema Kenya Ministry of Energy, Kenya Green Climate Fund Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) Centre for Climate Action - CCA