The Africa Carbon Market Capacity Building Programme, led by CarbonSphere Climate Advisory Limited (CCAL) and its partners, returns for a third cohort: a three-day online bootcamp linking GHG inventories under the Enhanced Transparency Framework, Article 6 cooperative approaches and carbon market project development.
Expert-led sessions show how to design, finance, validate and implement high-integrity carbon projects. It is built for GHG inventory practitioners, government officials, project developers and climate finance professionals across Africa.
Focus areas
- GHG inventories and transparency under the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)
- Inventory QA/QC, activity data, and institutional arrangements
- Article 6 cooperative approaches and national carbon market frameworks
- Carbon project design, methodologies, and MRV
- Validation, verification, and credit issuance
- Climate finance and carbon transaction structuring
- Networking among African carbon market practitioners
Modules / benefits
- Modules
- Day 1: Project Identification, Design & Additionality
- Module 1: Project typologies (renewable energy, AFOLU, waste management, cookstoves, removals), methodology selection, and baseline scenario design
- Module 2: Additionality tests, showing a project would not happen without carbon finance
- Module 3: Unlocking opportunities in Article 6 and carbon markets, from capacity building to action (guest session)
- Day 2: MRV Design & the Project Development Roadmap
- Module 4: Documentation and eligibility under VCS and Gold Standard, including the methodology matrix (VM0042, SHAMBA, smallholder dairy, ARR options)
- Module 5: Carbon pools (biomass vs. soil organic carbon), direct measurement vs. modelling, and MRV framework design
- Module 6: Governance roles (developer, field project manager, implementing partners/CBOs, technical providers, buyers), safeguards, and extension cost drivers
- Module 7: Applied case work: designing an MRV plan for a sample project
- Day 3: Quality, Risk & Bankability
- Module 8: Carbon credit quality: permanence, leakage, and buffer pools
- Module 9: Safeguard policies, grievance mechanisms, and project risk management
- Module 10: Cost structure benchmarks and key revenue drivers
- Module 11: Financing instruments (grants, concessional loans, market loans, equity, upfront finance) and the 3-5 year pre-financing gap
- Module 12: Case study: structuring a project for bankability from day one
- Benefits
- A practical framework for identifying and designing a viable, Article 6-aware carbon project
- Working knowledge of the 10-step development roadmap and its governance structures
- Fluency in MRV design and the monitoring tools shaping the next generation of projects
- Ability to assess host-country regulatory risk, including corresponding adjustments and ITMO authorization
- Ability to assess project quality, risk, and bankability the way financiers and verifiers do
- Certificate of completion to support your professional profile
- Online delivery, with each day about 4.5 hours
- Who Should Attend
- Project developers structuring credits for cross-border sale
- Government and regulatory staff managing host country authorizations
- Finance and investment professionals evaluating Article 6-linked deals
- ESG and sustainability professionals advising on compliance exposure
- Legal and policy advisors working on carbon rights and transfer agreements
- Consultants building Article 6 advisory capacity