Community-Led Digital MRV: See CitizenClimate at Work
CitizenClimate is a digital MRV platform built around the people who live in a project area. Communities collect the monitoring data on their phones and are paid for every verified task. Every record carries a photo, a GPS point and a timestamp, so a verifier can check it and a funder can see the impact for themselves.
This two-minute film follows Amani, a project developer in Kenya, and seven community members from the Philippines to Chile as they use the platform day to day.
What you'll see
0:00 What CitizenClimate is
0:20 Set up once: area, surveys, lessons and payments
0:38 Mangroves in the Philippines, rooftop solar in South Africa
0:54 Forest monitoring in Cameroon: camera traps and AI
1:05 Biochar in India, coffee in Tanzania
1:22 A borehole in Malawi, electric buses in Chile
1:38 One live dashboard for verifiers and funders
1:51 Projects work when communities lead them
Set up once, then let the community run it
A project developer draws the project area, builds the surveys, adds short lessons and sets what each task pays. Then one QR code brings the community in. The app works without signal: records are stored on the phone and upload when it reconnects, and sensors such as camera traps and borehole loggers sync over Bluetooth when someone visits.
Paid for every verified task
Planting and checking mangrove seedlings, photographing a solar meter, syncing a camera trap or logging a biochar batch: each task has a set reward, paid once the record is verified. Communities are paid for the monitoring work they already do, and projects get more frequent, better-evidenced data.
Data a verifier can audit
Everything comes back to one live dashboard. Each record keeps its photo, GPS point and timestamp, so a verifier can trace a figure back to the field. Funders and buyers can follow progress on the project's own website, fed live from the platform through the API.
One platform, many project types
The film moves through mangrove restoration, rooftop solar, forest and biodiversity monitoring, biochar, coffee, community water and electric buses. Each has its own walkthrough film: see the links below.