What we do, and the work behind it

The team’s convening experience was built at the Africa Climate Summit, where our founder, Lucy Nyoike, was Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation Lead under the Government of Kenya, and in partnership roles at GEAPP, The Rockefeller Foundation and FSD Africa.

Africa’s climate and development initiatives rarely fail because of a bad idea. They fail because the right people never came to the same table. We offer neutral convening for governments, financial institutions, development partners and private-sector actors: working groups and multi-stakeholder forums designed and facilitated to end in decisions and outputs that move institutions forward, not just conversations.

ENKOP works with Verst Carbon and KK Advisors under joint bidding agreements. With Verst Carbon, ENKOP delivered the farmer survey for Phase 1 of the Africa Biochar Aggregation Platform, a programme that joined an FSD Africa grant, Tanzania’s National Food Reserve Agency and Verst Carbon’s platform.

Climate projects need partnerships designed on purpose, not ones that happen by accident. We structure and facilitate multi-stakeholder partnerships that bring financing, technology, knowledge and delivery capacity together, including the legal architecture, governance, benefit-sharing and accountability arrangements that let partners with different mandates and risk appetites work to one plan.

In Tanzania, ENKOP ran the 1,013-farmer survey for Phase 1 of Verst Carbon’s Africa Biochar Aggregation Platform, part of a national feasibility study completed in March 2026. In Kenya, we are supporting Verst Carbon on a feasibility study for the Kenya Wildlife Service (see Nature-based solutions, below).

Great ideas are only as good as the structures built around them. We take initiatives from first concept to a bankable, investor-ready proposal: carbon market platforms, including biochar carbon removal and nature-based solutions, blended finance vehicles, clean energy programmes and sustainable agriculture value chains, each designed to the standards of leading registries, development finance institutions and private capital.

The Tanzania survey put to 1,013 smallholder farmers the questions a biochar market depends on: whether they burn crop residue, whether they would supply it, and whether they would adopt biochar. Its answers are part of the evidence base for Phase 1 of the Africa Biochar Aggregation Platform. Before joining ENKOP, our technical lead, Howard Piwang, contributed to Uganda’s national biomass cookstove standard (DUS 761).

Climate solutions in Africa scale only when the markets around them are built to support them. We work at the level of the whole system, on the policies, standards, market infrastructure and actor networks that turn individual projects into functioning sectors, from carbon market activation to clean energy value chains and regenerative agriculture finance.

In July 2026 the ENKOP team went to Mwea, Kirinyaga County, to inspect the biochar supply chain for our partner Pure Plant Organics: three of its nine stages so far, the rice mill, the husk feedstock and the production site. In Tanzania, the team recorded 1,013 farmer interviews on KoboToolbox across eight depot catchments.

Strategy is only valuable when it becomes action. We bridge high-level design and delivery on the ground, working alongside local partners, cooperatives, government agencies and community structures, with project management, monitoring and evaluation, and adaptive management built in from the start, so that outcomes are measurable, scalable and locally owned.