CarbonWatch Kenya

CarbonWatch is a community-facing transparency platform tracking Verra-registered carbon projects across Kenya. Primary source: Verra Registry.

Examples currently shown in the dashboard: Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon (VCS 1468, NRT), Komaza (VCS 2623), Boomitra Kenya (VCS 3340), KCSA (VCS 5451). CarbonWatch coverage extends beyond these pilot examples across Verra-registered projects in Kenya.

• Verra Registry Official project and issuance data for all VCS projects in Kenya. ↗

• NRT Kenya Northern Rangelands Trust. ↗
• Carbon Project Impact Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project: 14 conservancies, benefit sharing, community revenue. ↗
• Carbon Project Partners NKRCP partners and structure. ↗
• NRT Document library Reports, guides, State of Conservancies. ↗
• NRT Annual Report 2023 ↗
• Carbon Project distributes levies to counties Benefit sharing to Isiolo, Samburu, Laikipia, Marsabit. ↗

SCOUT is CarbonWatch’s survey tool for empowerment and governance in conservancy communities; methodology is aligned to WELI and Pro-WEAI dimensions. Below: key methodology links.

• ILRI WELI Six dimensions: production, nutrition, resources, income, opportunities, workload/time. ↗
• Pro-WEAI (IFPRI) Project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index; intrinsic, instrumental, collective agency. ↗
• About WEAI WEAI framework. ↗

SMS/IVR, USSD, and manual entries feed the central repository; the Public Dashboard is the front-end for analysis. Relevant for community monitoring across Kenya’s conservancies.

• NRT Document library Socio-economic and monitoring context for NRT member conservancies and Kenya community carbon. ↗
• SCOUT CarbonWatch’s survey tool for empowerment and governance in conservancy communities. Socio-economic monitoring; methodology aligned to WELI/Pro-WEAI.

The Public Dashboard is the front-end interface for data description and analysis. Data comes from the central repository (SMS/IVR, USSD, and manual entries).

• VCS 1468: two verification cycles completed — 2013–2016 and 2017–2020. Monitoring/verification for 2021+ in progress.
• Conservancy land area (VCS 1468): From Northern Kenya Community Carbon – Where We Work and project data (e.g. Sera ~340,000 ha, Namunyak ~344,000 ha). Ol Donyiro land area not listed → N/A.
• First payment (Feb 2022): USD 324,000 to each of the 14 conservancies (NRT Carbon Project Impact). Per-cycle carbon sold, amount received and spending per conservancy not publicly disclosed → N/A.
• Northern Kenya Rangeland (VCS 1468): 14 conservancies; ~2M ha; USD 14.6M+ carbon revenue to date; 5% to county governments (e.g. Nov 2022: Ksh 23.8M to Isiolo, Samburu, Laikipia). NRT Carbon Project Impact.
• State of Conservancies Report (NRT) — Conservancy-level data; NRT document library for latest reports.
• Carbon credit buyers: Named buyers and retirement transactions — see Buyer retirements (authoritative data: Verra Registry; JSON compiled for the dashboard).

The Carbon credit buyers section reports credit retirements and VCS project linkage from the Verra Registry — the authoritative public source for VCS projects, retirement transactions, VCU quantities, retirement dates, and official project names. CarbonWatch does not originate this data; it compiles Registry-aligned records for presentation.

• Official source of record: Verra Registry (public project pages, retirement and transaction information).
• Dashboard files (derived): data/buyers-transactions.json, data/buyers-summary.json, and data/buyers-coverage.json — JSON exports used by the site; metadata in each file cites the Registry.
• Workbook: data/MASTER BUYERS CLEAN.xlsx — internal compilation used to generate the JSON; underlying retirement facts remain attributable to the Verra Registry.
• Project names & IDs: VCS IDs and titles match registry.verra.org project listings.