Efficient Clean Cooking Solutions for Healthier Ugandan Homes

Empowering Refugee Communities with Affordable Clean Cooking: Detra’s Role in Kiryandongo

Access to clean cooking remains a major challenge for thousands living in Uganda’s refugee settlements, where traditional fuels like firewood and charcoal are the norm —often leading to respiratory illness, deforestation, and high fuel costs.

As part of the ENACT Uganda Scale-Up Project, Detra Energy & Environmental Contractors Ltd partnered with ICLEI Africa and the Ministry of Energy to bring practical solutions to the Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement one of Uganda’s largest and most vulnerable communities

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🚀 What We Delivered

Detra Energy supplied reliable, energy-efficient cookstoves to refugee households at subsidized prices, made possible through catalytic funding from ENACT. These clean cooking solutions drastically reduce fuel use, smoke emissions, and cooking time, creating a safer and more dignified cooking et’s a right tied to health, safety, and resilience.

Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible” James Benet - Detra Energy.

📊 Impact Highlights

• 📦 Over 300 clean cookstoves supplied to Kiryandongo households

• 💸 Subsidized pricing through ENACT support, increasing accessibility

• 🌱 Lower fuel use and less smoke, reducing deforestation and indoor air pollution

• 🙌 Community engagement and usage training led by Detra field teams

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This initiative is part of a broader push to scale clean energy in Uganda’s informal and refugee settlements. As the ENACT project continues, Detra remains committed to inclusive access, sustainable solutions, and empowering marginalized communitie