For Communities
This is your carbon. Here is how it works.
Kaboni Yetu means "our carbon." The carbon stored in your mangroves, seagrasses, and coastal ecosystems has international market value. Kaboni Yetu Limited is the company that brings that value to market and sets the rules for how it is shared. Action for Ocean (AFO), our field delivery partner, works alongside your village institutions to make sure those rules are honoured on the ground.
Our Commitments to You
What you can hold us to
Your consent comes first
No work begins, and no credits are issued from your village's landscape, until your community gives Free, Prior and Informed Consent.
Genuine consultation, in a language and format you can understand, with real time to deliberate. You have the right to say no. Consent is formalised in a Governance Compact, a written agreement between Kaboni Yetu and your village.
Governance Compacts
Governance Compacts are in development and adoption across all 15 coastal villages in Mtwara Region.
Each village signs its own compact before any credit from its landscape is sold. It documents benefit-sharing terms, revenue calculation, fund control, and financial controls specific to your village. Terms are agreed with you directly and are not uniform across all 15 communities.
Benefit-sharing: what you are owed
Revenue distribution is legally binding under GN 636 (2022), not a goodwill gesture that can be withdrawn.
Kaboni Yetu sets the policy framework; your village's specific share, and how it reaches you, is set out in your Governance Compact and agreed with your institutions.
Who is at the table
35 village-level institutions are strengthened through this programme: VNRCs, VLCs, and BMUs.
Kaboni Yetu and AFO work through these bodies, not around them. Women hold a 60% activity-participation target, with leadership coaching for women in VNRC and VLC roles. Youth work as para-scientists and nursery technicians in certified roles with skills pathways.
Grievance handling
A formal grievance mechanism is operational before restoration begins in any village.
If you have a complaint about how the programme is managed, by anyone involved, you have a documented, accessible path to raise it. AFO field staff are your first point of contact, with an escalation route if the complaint concerns Kaboni Yetu itself.
Transparency and reporting
You generate the data, not just receive it.
Community para-scientists from your villages run georeferenced monitoring of restoration sites. Kaboni Yetu reports programme outcomes, credit issuance results, and benefit distributions back to village institutions on a regular basis.
Safeguards
One rule is non-negotiable
Reach Us
Village leaders and civil society partners
AFO field team, Mtwara
Village leaders, community institutions, and civil society partners in the MBREMP landscape should contact Action for Ocean's field team directly. AFO staff carry the day-to-day relationship with your village institutions.
Kaboni Yetu Limited
For questions about benefit-sharing policy, revenue administration, or the certification process, contact Kaboni Yetu directly.
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