First Lady Rachel Ruto has called for crucial investment and financing to fast-track Kenya's transition to clean cooking technologies in schools, correctional facilities, and other public institutions, moving away from traditional firewood. Speaking at a High-Level Summit in Nairobi, she highlighted the severe health, environmental, and climate risks associated with biomass fuels.

• Access to clean cooking in Kenya has increased from 10 percent in 2013 to over 30 percent in 2023, with a national goal for universal access by 2028.
• The First Lady's organization, Joyful Women (JoyWo), empowers women through a table banking model to adopt modern clean cooking technologies.
• More than 35,000 primary schools, 10,000 secondary schools, and 136 correctional facilities in Kenya heavily rely on firewood, with 14,883 institutions still dependent on biomass as their main energy source as per the 2023 Master Facility List.
• The cost of indoor air pollution on Kenya's health sector amounts to Sh33 billion annually, with over 26,000 Kenyans dying prematurely each year.