Blue Carbon · Mtwara · Tanzania
Returning the value of mangroves to the communities who protect them
In Tanzania's Mnazi Bay, communities have protected over 4,000 hectares of mangrove for generations. That work stores carbon, sustains fish nurseries, and holds coastlines together. Kaboni Yetu builds the systems to measure, certify, and sell that value as blue carbon credits, and routes the proceeds back to the communities who earned them.
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The infrastructure behind credible community carbon
Credit Origination
We take a community with a forest (but no registry, no data room, no buyer) and build the path to a verified, market-ready credit. Baseline data, governance structures, regulatory filings, certification package. Targeting Plan Vivo + NCMC dual certification in 2026–27.
Community Governance
Carbon revenue without governance is a pathway to conflict. Before any credit work moves forward, each of the 15 villages signs a Governance Compact: their terms for how money flows, who decides, and how disputes get resolved. We don't advance until that's agreed.
MRV & Monitoring
The monitoring data behind every credit comes from local para-scientists trained by AFO, not outsourced consultants. Georeferenced tree plots, seedling survival records, patrol logs. Data built to survive independent audit by a validation and verification body.
Flagship Project
Mnazi Bay Blue Carbon Programme
The Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park (MBREMP) in Mtwara Region hosts one of Tanzania's most ecologically significant mangrove seascapes. Kaboni Yetu is completing the last-mile governance, restoration, and monitoring systems needed to bring this landscape to certification readiness.
Targeting dual certification under Plan Vivo and NCMC, the programme draws on three years of rigorous baseline work: socio-economic surveys, carbon sampling, legal analysis under Tanzania's GN 636 (2022) framework, and deep community engagement across 15 villages.
Programme Snapshot
Secondary Project
Kunduchi Eco Park, Dar es Salaam
Alongside MBREMP, Kaboni Yetu is developing Kunduchi Eco Park, a managed coastal habitat on the Dar es Salaam coastline exploring how conservation can generate multiple revenue streams: eco-tourism, biodiversity credits, and nature-based products. It complements the community-managed rural seascape model at MBREMP with a peri-urban coastal proof of concept.
The project is in active feasibility and design development. Contact us for further information.
Project Development Status
Kunduchi Eco Park is in active feasibility and design development. Further details on carbon pathways, tenure arrangements, and enterprise models will be published as the project matures.
Read MoreStandards & Regulation
Built to the highest available bar
VIVO
Plan Vivo Foundation
The global standard for community-based carbon and ecosystem service markets, requiring robust benefit-sharing, community consent (FPIC), and high-integrity restoration evidence. Kaboni Yetu is designed to meet Plan Vivo certification requirements. Registration is targeted for 2026–27.
National Carbon Monitoring Centre
Tanzania's national carbon registry and MRV authority. NCMC certification aligns Kaboni Yetu with GN 636 (2022) carbon trading regulations and provides host country recognition, a requirement for internationally transferable credits under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
REMP
MBREMP Co-Management
All activities operate within the Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park governance structure, with Tanzania Forest Service (TFS) and district authority coordination. This embedded co-management approach reduces regulatory and permanence risk for the programme.
High-Quality Blue Carbon Principles
Kaboni Yetu operationalises ORRAA's HQBC principles (permanence, leakage management, additionality, and community equity) as non-negotiable design conditions. The HQBC framework is recognised by the Lloyd's market and leading blue carbon investors.