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A research and product development social enterprise closing the gap between African SMEs and global climate finance operating across East Africa.
From Nairobi across Sub-Saharan Africa, we work as one node in a growing global network of researchers, financiers, cooperatives, and technologists, driving progress toward closing the climate finance gap, one verified data point at a time.
Kilimora is a research and product development social enterprise closing the gap between African SMEs and global climate finance. Founded in Kenya, we operate at the intersection of field research, technology product development, and technical assistance building the verified infrastructure connecting ground-level environmental work to the global financial systems designed to fund it.
1,500+ agri‑SMEs supported and a 70% drop in MRV cost.
"The organisations doing the most to restore African ecosystems were consistently excluded from the capital markets designed to reward exactly that work."
Kilimora CLG was founded after observing a persistent and structural failure. Not because impact was lacking. Because those organisations lacked the technical infrastructure, the verified evidence, and the investor-facing documentation to connect field work to global climate finance requirements on paper.
Kilimora exists to close that gap by merging research, product development, technical assistance, and building infrastructure that makes climate finance accessible to those doing the most important work.
Three interlocking commitments that shape every line of code we write and every cooperative we onboard.
We operate at the intersection of research, product development, and technical assistance. Research reveals barriers. Products lower them. Technical assistance deploys the products. Field experience generates new research questions completing a feedback loop beyond a linear programme.
To deploy integrated research and product systems that empower youth and women-led enterprises to access climate-linked financial flows through MRV infrastructure that is affordable, verifiable, and designed for low-resource, low-connectivity environments across Sub-Saharan Africa.
A standardised global model where environmental performance at the smallest unit of production (even a single smallholder plot) integrates seamlessly into formal financial systems. That future requires new infrastructure. We are building it.
Farmers and enterprises own their data and we act as stewards by designing tools that empower communities and protect their privacy. Control stays with the community, always.
Climate action must improve livelihoods beyond measured impact. Reliable income to communities doing the environmental work is key to a just transition that lasts.
Offline-first USSD for feature phones, AI integration for smartphones. No farmer is left outside the system because of their device. Inclusivity is a technical requirement, not an afterthought.
Every claim our research generates and every benefit from our interventions are backed by verifiable, dual-layer data. We earn the trust of our partners with evidence, not assertions.
We design solutions with communities by prioritising cooperative economics, local wisdom, and community ownership of outcomes as design principles essential for building interventions that actually hold.
We measure success in decades through designing systems built to outlast individual projects, and partnerships structured around institutional durability rather than funding cycles.
If these values align with how you work, there is a meaningful pathway to collaborate whether you are a funder, researcher, cooperative or enterprise.
Five milestones that define how Kilimora moved from founding thesis to filed patent.
Kilimora CLG is registered in Kenya as a Company Limited by Guarantee. The founding thesis: African SMEs were structurally locked out of the global carbon and climate finance market due to prohibitive verification costs and the absence of accessible measurement infrastructure.
Engaging 1,500 farmers across Kenya generating research evidence that AI-enabled digital tools could reduce verification costs by 70% while sequestering an estimated 24,000 tonnes of carbon annually across enrolled cooperative farm plots.
Selected as a beVisioneers Pioneer Project Scholar, validating the research and product development approach and providing the first structured funding for platform development. AgriKonnekt takes its current form.
Provisional patent filed with the Kenya Industrial Property Institute covering the Integrated Climate Wallet System with Dual Verification for Carbon Credit Generation and Trade Access. PCT international filing is in progress.
Expanding research partnerships with Kenyan universities, scaling AgriKonnekt to 7,000 farmers across Kenya and Uganda, and launching the energy and special programmes advisory tracks to serve a broader portfolio of climate-aligned SMEs across East Africa.
Six practitioners bringing field research, product engineering, finance, and community development into one cohesive force.
A beVisioneers Mercedes-Benz Fellow and UN FAO World Food Forum Youth Representative who has raised over USD 1.2M for startups and NGOs across East Africa. Leads research direction, strategic partnerships, and investor engagement.
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A Kenyatta University postgraduate researcher with deep knowledge in developing methodology frameworks grounded in soil science and agricultural systems. Leads MRV methodology, impact measurement, and university research partnerships.
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A technology practitioner with expertise in humanitarian supply chain technology and platform architecture. Has mobilised funding for building and supporting early-stage ventures. Leads AgriKonnekt product development and technical deployment.
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An AAA Kenya Project Officer with extensive experience designing localised capacity building modules for agricultural stakeholders across Kenya. Leads cooperative technical assistance and training programmes.
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A PwC Senior Auditor with deep expertise in ESG reporting and business plan development. Leads financial management, grant compliance, and investor-facing financial documentation across Kilimora's project portfolio.
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An AGRA Risk Specialist with advanced assessment techniques for preventing losses, predicting failure points, and building confidence in uncertain operational settings. Leads quality assurance, data governance, and cooperative onboarding compliance.
LinkedInKilimora's work operates through three interconnected tracks designed to make climate finance structurally accessible to the organisations doing the most important work on the continent. Each track feeds the others as research informs product design, product deployment generates research questions, and technical assistance bridges the gap between field reality and investor expectation.
We work directly with farmer cooperatives, agri-SMEs, and value chain actors to deploy AgriKonnekt (our MRV platform) and build the foundational infrastructure needed to participate in carbon and climate finance markets. This means soil sensing, satellite cross-validation, cooperative onboarding, and the full technical stack of environmental accounting at the plot level.
We serve climate-aligned SMEs, cooperatives, and clean energy enterprises as a technical advisory and fundraising partner. This means grant management, investor documentation, due diligence preparation, and access to grant, equity, and debt capital markets designed specifically for organisations working in low-resource African contexts.
Our research programme generates published briefs, methodology frameworks, and evidence syntheses on the structural barriers African SMEs face in accessing climate finance. This research directly powers AgriKonnekt's product roadmap and informs the broader field shared openly through our Newsroom and academic partnerships with Kenyan universities.
End-to-end proposal development for multilateral, bilateral, and philanthropic grant programmes. We build the narrative, the budget, and the logical framework and stay accountable to compliance timelines.
For equity and debt capital: investor readiness, pitch documentation, due diligence preparation, and active introductions to climate-aligned capital providers across early-stage and growth mandates.
Designing and validating measurement, reporting, and verification frameworks that meet international standards while remaining implementable in low-resource, low-connectivity field environments.
Onboarding cooperatives onto AgriKonnekt, training farmer-facing enumerators, and building institutional capacity for cooperatives to maintain compliance with climate finance programme requirements over time.
Advisory services for clean energy enterprises (especially in solar and clean cooking) operating in ASAL and underserved markets, including SACCO-based credit facilitation and last-mile distribution strategy.
Building the investor-facing evidence layer: impact reports, ESG documentation, annual performance summaries, and the verified data packages that make the difference between a promising project and a fundable one.
Every brief we publish, every cooperative we onboard, every advisory engagement we run informs the design of AgriKonnekt, our MRV platform connecting smallholder cooperatives to climate finance.
Patent WFP2026000162 · Kenya Industrial Property Institute
Kilimora operates under a comprehensive governance framework designed to ensure that every programme, every partnership, and every field engagement meets the standards expected by international funders, regulatory bodies, and the communities we serve.
Our approach to institutional governance is not a compliance exercise. It is how we protect the trust of our partners and the communities we work with. From safeguarding to procurement, these frameworks are living documents reviewed and updated as our work evolves.
Comprehensive frameworks protecting beneficiaries, staff, and partners from harm with specific protocols for gender-based risks in field environments. Zero tolerance. Always.
Donor-grade financial management, anti-corruption policies, and procurement standards that meet IFC, UN, and bilateral funder requirements across all active grants and contracts.
Operational ethics framework covering data governance, conflict of interest, whistleblower protection, and the standards by which we hold ourselves accountable to partners and beneficiaries alike.
Hover over the segments below to read what the policies cover. Each policy is a living document reviewed, updated, and applied across every programme we run.
Our comprehensive framework for protecting beneficiaries, staff, and partners from harm across all programme activities.
Our approach to ensuring women and girls are centred in programme design, from cooperative onboarding to leadership development.
Donor-grade financial controls, expense authorisation procedures, and audit trail requirements for all grant and contract funds.
Zero-tolerance standards for corruption and bribery across all internal operations, partnerships, and third-party engagements.
Transparent, competitive procurement procedures aligned with donor requirements and designed to prevent conflicts of interest in vendor selection.
Operational ethics standards covering data governance, conflict of interest disclosure, whistleblower protection, and partner accountability standards.
Kilimora's operational framework for teams working across geographies, ensuring consistency in standards, communication, and welfare for staff across Kenya and Uganda.