1. An abstract of the Rockefeller Foundation supported Project under the Climate Smart for Rural
Development Initiative
Project Title: Rockefeller Africa Sustainable Agriculture Initiative
Grant number TBD
Name of the Organization: PricewaterhouseCoopers Kenya Limited (PwC)
Country: Kenya
Name of the Contact Person: Simon Mutinda
Email: simon.mutinda@ke.pwc.com
Telephone: +254 – (020) 285 5000
Key Objectives
 Help develop a low carbon and climate change resilient agricultural sector in Africa with the
ultimate objective of reducing poverty for the rural poor.
 Build capacity within the agricultural sector and facilitate access to appropriate technologies and
financial mechanisms.
Key Activities
 Develop and test of a carbon methodology and appropriate monitoring, reporting and verification
solutions (MRV).
 Develop a fund disbursement system that can be applied for distribution of project benefits to
smallholder farmer beneficiaries.
 Carry out a Carbon Markets, Regulations and Standards Review.
 Prepare recommendations for scaling up project activity and investment in low carbon agriculture.
Key Deliverables
 Macro-assessments covering low carbon and climate resilient agriculture.
 Carbon methodology for low carbon agricultural practices.
 MRV solutions and MRV Data Management System.
 Low carbon agriculture project filter.
 Funding disbursal mechanism.
 Low carbon agricultural project implementation manual.
 Scaling up investment report.
Expected Outcomes
 Emergence of international and national policies that allow and encourage the inclusion of
agricultural and other land-based carbon sequestration activities in global carbon markets.
 Creation of new financing and implementation models that make it technically and economically
possible for smallholder farmers to participate in and benefit from carbon markets.
 Increase in the capacity to design, implement, monitor, and integrate agricultural carbon
sequestration activities within agricultural development programs and among development
professionals.