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Climate Resilience & Nature-Based Solutions, Influencing Policy

Advancing Biodiversity and Compliance Markets in Kenya

About this project

KWCA is collaborating with Terrasos and EarthAcre to advance biodiversity offsets and environmental compliance in Kenya. The project seeks to build a shared understanding of biodiversity offsets, strengthen dialogue between government and the private sector, and support the development of an effective national biodiversity offset framework in Kenya.

Through policy research, stakeholder engagement and learning from international experience, the project is helping identify the legal, institutional and technical measures Kenya needs to balance development with the conservation and restoration of biodiversity.

Full description

The project seeks to:

  1. Build a shared understanding of biodiversity offsets among government, businesses, conservation organisations and other stakeholders.
  2. Strengthen the business case for integrating biodiversity considerations into development and investment decisions.
  3. Identify legal, policy and institutional opportunities for operationalising biodiversity offsets.
  4. Promote credible standards for biodiversity valuation, monitoring, reporting and verification.
  5. Encourage collaboration between government, the private sector, communities, conservation organisations and technical experts.
  6. Draw lessons from international experience and adapt them to Kenya’s ecological and socioeconomic context.

Next steps

  1. Project partners will support the establishment of a working group to accompany this agenda.
  2. Advance dialogue with government through relevant ministries to advance policy and regulatory progress on biodiversity offsets.
  3. Expand outreach to socialise the benefits of biodiversity offsets among government and non-governmental stakeholders.
  4. Partner with the private sector in Kenya to collaborate further with the market’s demand side.
  5. Support conservancies in developing the enabling conditions needed to host high-integrity biodiversity investments.
Project details
Status
Ongoing
Timeline
August 2025 – September 2027
Locations
National

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Results

Impact & outcomes

Anticipated results:

  • Partnership established between KWCA, Terrasos and EarthAcre.
  • Comparative policy and legal analysis initiated for biodiversity markets.
  • Market assessment planned to identify investment opportunities.
  • Development of a flagship biodiversity finance transaction underway.
  • Capacity-building materials and policy recommendations to be produced.
  • White paper planned to capture lessons and recommendations for scaling biodiversity markets.
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