TaCaDevA brings together organisations which are developing and implementing carbon projects in Tanzania. The association has two membership categories:
Full Members are organisations whose projects are registered with the National Carbon Monitoring Centre (NCMC) as well as a recognised international carbon standard (such as Verra, Gold Standard, or Plan Vivo).
Advisory Members include carbon project developers who have not yet met the criteria for full membership, as well as organisations that support the development of Tanzania’s carbon market through technical expertise, project development services, research, or other relevant activities.
Our full members
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BioBuu
BioBuu is a Tanzanian circular economy company transforming organic waste into sustainable agricultural and feed products. Using technologies such as black soldier fly processing and composting, the company converts food and organic waste into insect protein for animal feed and organic fertiliser. By reducing waste and supporting sustainable agriculture, BioBuu contributes to improved waste management, soil health, and lower-emission food production systems across Tanzania and the wider region. Read more here.
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Blue Forest
Blue Forest is a project developer focused on protecting and restoring mangrove forests globally. The organisation works with local NGOs, forest authorities and communities, to deliver conservation and restoration projects that generate blue carbon credits under international standards. Carbon finance supports sustainable livelihoods and long-term ecosystem management. Since its establishment, Blue Forest has developed projects across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, delivering measurable climate, biodiversity, and community benefits. Read more here.
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BURN
BURN is a clean cooking company developing and distributing modern cooking technologies across Africa. Headquartered in Nairobi, the company designs, manufactures, and distributes biomass, LPG, and electric cooking appliances, including IoT-enabled induction cookers. Since 2011, BURN has reached millions of households, reducing fuel consumption, emissions, and exposure to indoor air pollution. Its products support cleaner energy access while generating high-quality carbon credits and improving health outcomes for families. Read more here.
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Carbon Tanzania
Carbon Tanzania is a social enterprise developing nature-based carbon projects while securing land rights for indigenous and local communities. The organisation works with communities and government partners to protect forests and generate verified emission reductions under international standards. Carbon finance supports local development and sustainable land management. Since its establishment, Carbon Tanzania has contributed to large-scale conservation while delivering measurable climate, biodiversity, and livelihood benefits across multiple landscapes. Read more here.
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Dark Earth Carbon
Dark Earth Carbon is a Tanzanian carbon removal company converting agricultural waste into biochar, a stable carbon-rich material that stores carbon in soils. Working with smallholder farmers, the organisation applies biochar to improve soil fertility, increase crop productivity, and enhance climate resilience. This process permanently removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere while supporting sustainable agriculture. Projects generate carbon credits linked to measurable climate, soil, and livelihood benefits. Read more here.
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eWATER services
eWATER services is a technology company providing digital solutions for managing rural water infrastructure. The organisation equips water points with smart monitoring systems that track functionality, usage, and revenue in real time. This approach improves maintenance, accountability, and service delivery, helping ensure reliable access to safe water. By strengthening operational and financial sustainability, eWATERservices supports long-term water security and resilience in underserved communities across diverse rural regions. Read more here.
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M-Gas Resources
M-Gas Resources Ltd is a Tanzanian clean cooking company providing households with pay-as-you-go LPG through smart-meter technology. The model enables low-income consumers to access modern cooking fuel without large upfront costs by paying in small increments. M-Gas manages an integrated distribution system, including last-mile delivery, to ensure reliable supply. Its approach improves access to safer, cleaner cooking energy while reducing emissions and supporting energy inclusion in underserved communities. Read more here.
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NRC
NRC Africa is a project developer specialising in nature-based solutions and carbon initiatives across Africa. The organisation works with governments, communities, and private partners to design projects that deliver verified emission reductions alongside biodiversity and livelihood benefits. Its portfolio includes forest conservation and restoration programmes aligned with international standards. NRC Africa aims to strengthen the integrity of carbon markets while supporting sustainable development outcomes across multiple African landscapes. Read more here.
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OffGrid Sun
OffGrid Sun is a renewable energy company providing solar solutions to households, businesses, and institutions in underserved areas. The organisation offers solar home systems, productive-use equipment, and mini-grid services through flexible financing models. Its approach expands access to affordable and reliable electricity, supporting economic activity and improving living standards. OffGrid Sun contributes to the transition to low-carbon energy systems while enabling inclusive energy access across the communities it serves. Read more here.
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One Acre Fund
One Acre Fund is an organisation supporting smallholder farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa to increase productivity and incomes. The organisation provides financing for farm inputs, training, and access to improved agricultural technologies. By strengthening farming systems and market participation, it enables farmers to grow more food and improve livelihoods. Its work contributes to food security, rural development, and greater resilience among farming communities across diverse agricultural regions. Read more here.
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PAMS Foundation
PAMS Foundation is a Tanzanian non-profit working on conservation and community development initiatives. In the Nguru Mountains landscape, the foundation supports a carbon reforestation project combining forest restoration with livelihood improvements. Activities include reforestation, assisted regeneration, forest protection, agroforestry, and clean cooking transitions. These initiatives strengthen household resilience while conserving biodiversity and ecosystems, contributing to climate mitigation and sustainable development in the region. Read more here.
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Rashal Energies
Rashal Energies is a Tanzanian company delivering clean energy solutions to improve access to sustainable power. The organisation develops projects across renewable energy and clean cooking, supporting households and institutions to transition from traditional fuels. Its work reduces emissions while improving health and energy security. Through partnerships with public and private stakeholders, Rashal Energies helps scale practical energy solutions that contribute to climate and development objectives nationwide. Read more here.
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Rift Valley Energy
Rift Valley Energy is a Tanzania-based renewable energy company developing, owning, and operating electricity generation and rural distribution projects. The organisation supplies power to households, businesses, and institutions, as well as the national grid. Its focus is on delivering reliable and affordable renewable energy in underserved areas. By expanding generation capacity and strengthening infrastructure, Rift Valley Energy supports economic development and improved energy access across rural communities. Read more here.
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Udzungwa Corridor LTD
Udzungwa Corridor LTD is a Tanzanian organisation restoring forest ecosystems and supporting livelihoods in the Eastern Arc Mountains. The project reconnects forest reserves through large-scale native reforestation. Working with local communities, it creates employment and provides payments linked to land use and conservation. By combining biodiversity restoration with sustainable income generation, Udzungwa Corridor contributes to climate mitigation, ecosystem recovery, and improved livelihoods in remote rural areas. Read more here.
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UpEnergy Group
UpEnergy Group is a social enterprise delivering clean energy technologies through high-impact carbon projects across Africa. The organisation distributes products such as improved cookstoves and water purification solutions that reduce emissions and improve household health. Its vertically integrated model ensures product quality, distribution, and long-term monitoring. UpEnergy generates verified carbon credits while delivering measurable social and environmental benefits in the communities it serves across the continent. Read more here.
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Village Climate Solutions
Village Climate Solutions Limited develops and implements nature-based carbon projects in Tanzania. Its REDD+ initiative spans village and local authority forest reserves across large landscapes, aiming to avoid significant carbon emissions under international standards. The organisation works closely with communities, distributing carbon revenue through performance-based models that support local development. Its projects contribute to forest conservation, climate mitigation, and improved livelihoods across participating regions. Read more here.
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Water Mission
Water Mission is a nonprofit engineering organisation delivering safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions for communities in developing and disaster-affected areas. The organisation designs sustainable water systems alongside carbon credit projects that reduce emissions through safe water technologies. Carbon finance supports system maintenance and expansion. Its programmes improve health outcomes while strengthening long-term water security and resilience for underserved populations across diverse and vulnerable regions. Read more here.
Our advisory members
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Axum
Axum is an impact firm working with governments, businesses, and development partners to design and implement programmes addressing climate, economic, and social challenges. It works in partnerships with public and private sector actors in Tanzania, as well as across Africa and the Middle East, providing strategy, programme design, and implementation support to deliver large-scale initiatives. Read more here.
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Bridge Carbon
Bridge Carbon developed climate projects that support vulnerable communities across Tanzania, Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. The organisation focuses on clean cooking, renewable energy, and ecosystem restoration initiatives that reduce emissions while supporting sustainable development. Its projects in Tanzania and beyond aim to expand access to climate solutions while improving livelihoods and environmental resilience. Activities are implemented with a focus on transparency and high-integrity carbon standards. Read more here.
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goodcarbon
goodcarbon is a project developer working on nature-based climate solutions in partnership with local stakeholders. In Tanzania, the organisation is developing a mangrove restoration and conservation project with the Tanzania Forest Services Agency and local NGOs. The project aims to restore and sustainably manage more than 9,000 hectares of mangrove forest, and is designed to generate climate and biodiversity benefits while supporting over 16,000 people. Read more about this and other projects here.
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Kisiwa Farming
Kisiwa Farming Ltd is a Tanzanian agri-processing social enterprise based on Mafia Island that integrates sustainable coconut cultivation with renewable energy and biochar production. The company is developing an industrial biochar facility that converts residual coconut biomass and other agricultural waste into a carbon-rich soil amendment that will improve soil fertility, water retention, crop productivity, livelihoods, agricultural resilience and long-term carbon sequestration. Read more here.
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Lasting Forest Solutions
Lasting Forest Solutions is a locally-registered company developing ARR carbon projects in Tanzania. Its works with an on-the-ground partner, Reforest Africa, to restore native forests in the Greater Udzungwa Landscape, across Morogoro and Iringa regions. Since its establishment, Lasting Forest Solutions has helped reconnect fragments of forests within the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot, delivering measurable climate, biodiversity, and community benefits. Read more here.
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Mutina Power
Mutina Power is a clean cooking project developer focused on expanding access to modern, low-emission cooking solutions for low-income households. In Tanzania, it works in Pwani Region distributing efficient cookstoves (ACE One) and developing fuel supply systems (biomass briquetes) based on agricultural residues. Mutina aims to reduce reliance on traditional fuels, lower emissions, support robust digital monitoring as well as national climate objectives. Read more here.
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Removall
Removall develops carbon projects focused on strengthening natural carbon sinks and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Its portfolio includes ecosystem restoration and conservation initiatives, alongside projects that avoid or reduce emissions. The organisation emphasises ongoing monitoring and verification of carbon sequestration and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, aiming to deliver measurable climate impact through both carbon storage and emissions reduction activities. Read more here.
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SNV
SNV is an international organisation with over 50 years of partnership with Tanzania, where it has supported landscape conservation and sustainable development initiatives cross the agricultural, energy and water sectors. SNV works closely in partnership with governments, businesses and communities, providing technical expertise to help build resilience, improve livelihoods and support long-term, system-level change and deliver results in terms of climate-smart agriculture, renewable energy and natural resource management. Read more here.
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South Pole
South Pole is a global carbon asset developer and climate consultancy, which advises governments, public institutions, and companies on decarbonisation strategies and climate finance. It has supported the development of more than 850 climate projects worldwide including in Tanzania. It focuses on supporting partners to address climate challenges through a range of advisory and project-based approaches including ecosystem restoration, sustainable development initiatives, and investment in emissions reduction. Read more about South Pole’s work here.
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TCCHP
The Tabora Carbon Credit Harvest and Purchase Programme is a Tanzanian initiative focused on generating carbon credits through forest conservation and emissions reduction. It aims to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, promote environmental sustainability and support economic development. The programme connects international and local partners involved with carbon projects, and contributes to national climate mitigation efforts. Read more about how and where TCCHP is working here.
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The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy develops and supports carbon projects as part of its broader climate and conservation work. Through initiatives such as the Africa Forest Carbon Catalyst, it provides technical and financial support to build pipelines of high-quality carbon projects. These projects aim to deliver measurable climate mitigation while generating benefits for biodiversity and local communities, helping scale nature-based solutions across Africa. Read more here.
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The Kilimanjaro Project
The Kilimanjaro Project is an environmental and social impact initiative focused on tree growing, ecosystem restoration and community livelihoods around Mount Kilimanjaro. It works with local communities to plant and protect trees, promote agroforestry and restore degraded landscapes. A core focus is riparian restoration along rivers flowing from Kilimanjaro, supporting water systems that sustain millions of people, while building long-term capacity for community-led environmental stewardship. Read more here.
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The Oceancy
The Oceancy International develops large-scale nature-based carbon projects focused on ecosystem restoration and climate mitigation. It works across regions and countries, including Tanzania, where it is developing mangrove restoration and tropical agroforestry initiatives. These projects focus on restoring ecosystems, improving land-use practices, enhancing carbon sequestration, and support sustainable local livelihoods. Read more here.
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Amani Foundation
The Amani Foundation is a Tanzania-based non-governmental organisation working on climate action and community development. It is involved in the development of several carbon projects in Tanzania, including the Lindi Mangrove Restoration Project, the Igombe REDD+ Project (Tabora), and the KUKUA Landscape Restoration Project (Pangani). These initiatives are designed to generate climate finance, restore ecosystems, and support local livelihoods. Read more here.