Laisamis Constituency · Marsabit County · Kenya

Community land.
Climate intelligence.
Carbon integrity.

LCLI builds community-governed systems for land, climate resilience, and carbon markets across 1.85 million hectares of northern Kenya. Consent is not a checkbox, it is the architecture.

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1.85M
Hectares of
community land
9
NLC forums
completed
5
Communities
represented
6
Wards
engaged
4
Ecological
zones
What We Do

Three systems.
One integrated approach.

Climate Resilience

Solar, water harvesting, and rangeland restoration across four ecological zones, proving community-led climate solutions at scale in African dryland conditions.

Solar deployment Water systems Rangeland restoration

Land & Governance

Building the legal and institutional foundation for community land ownership: NLC-anchored, constitutionally grounded, and designed to outlast political cycles.

Community Land Act NLC partnership Land registration

Data & Intelligence

Field-verified land data, ecological zone intelligence, and climate monitoring, positioning Laisamis as a knowledge hub and carbon-ready landscape, not a project site.

Remote sensing Field monitoring Ecological mapping
Carbon Brokerage

Community-first carbon.
Integrity built in.

Kenya's carbon market is growing fast, and facing a credibility crisis. High-profile projects have been suspended for failing to obtain community consent. LCLI's community-governed architecture makes that failure structurally impossible.

We connect community land projects in northern Kenya to verified international buyers, earning on matched deals, not upfront fees. No community signs anything until FPIC is fully documented. That is our market position.

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Projects referenced for market intelligence purposes. Registry data sourced from Verra public records. LCLI earns commission on matched deals only. No upfront cost to community land projects.

⚠ Suspended

Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project

1.9M ha · NRT · Verra #1468 · Suspended Jan 2025 following court ruling on community consent.

$8–12 / tonne · Not listed by LCLI

✓ Active

Kasigau Corridor REDD+

200,000 ha · Wildlife Works · VCS + CCB · 1.4M tCO₂/yr avoided · 13.9M tonnes to date.

$14–18 / tonne · Market reference

✓ Active

Acorn Agroforestry CRUs

Rabobank · Embu & Tharaka-Nithi · Ex-post satellite-verified · 80% revenue to farmers.

€20–31 / tonne · Premium removal

✓ Active

Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project

22,000 ha · Vi Agroforestry / World Bank · VCS VM0017 · First African soil+tree carbon project.

$9–13 / tonne · SALM methodology

New Initiative · In Development

Community solar.
Power that pays the people.

LCLI is developing a community-owned solar farm in Laisamis, built on the same NLC-anchored governance as everything we do. The Chalbi and Kaisut zones hold some of the highest solar irradiance in East Africa. The model is simple: affordable electricity sold directly to local homes and businesses first, with surplus power sold to the national grid, and revenue flowing back through the Community Land Trust.

Revenue Stream 01

Direct to the community

A solar mini-grid supplying households, schools, clinics, boreholes, and small businesses at tariffs below standard retail rates. For many families in Laisamis this is first-time electricity: light after dark, cold-chain for medicine, power for enterprise. Community members are customers and owners, never just beneficiaries.

Revenue Stream 02

To the national grid

Surplus generation sold to Kenya Power under a Power Purchase Agreement, with EPRA generation licensing. Kenya has reopened PPAs under a competitive auction framework, and grid sales convert Laisamis sunshine into long-term community income that funds land registration, monitoring, and local services.

Phase 1

Feasibility & consent

Site selection on undisputed community land, documented FPIC through the CLMCs, solar resource and demand assessment, and EPRA/NEMA groundwork.

Phase 2

Community mini-grid

Build and operate the first mini-grid serving Laisamis homes and institutions, with youth trained as operators and technicians under our existing capacity programme.

Phase 3

Grid-tied expansion

Scale generation capacity and secure a PPA to sell surplus power to the national grid, anchoring long-term revenue for the Community Land Trust.

Funding Pathways We Are Pursuing
KOSAP / World Bank · REREC Mission 300 · WB & AfDB GEAPP / Rockefeller Foundation EEP Africa AECF · REACT REPP / Camco AfDB Green Mini-Grids

The solar programme is one component of the LCLI platform. It complements — and is governed by — our land registration, climate intelligence, and carbon integrity work. It does not replace them.

Foundation Metrics

Built on real ground.
Measured from day one.

Every number here is verified, not projected.

1.85M
Hectares of community land
4 ecological zones · 6 wards
9
NLC forums completed
All 6 wards · 2024–2025
5
Communities represented
Rendille · Samburu · Gabbra · El Molo · Turkana
80%
Of Kenya is ASAL land
Technology proven here works at continental scale
The Land

20,290 km² across
four ecological zones

From highland forest at 2,066m to the Chalbi Desert: one constituency, four distinct climate environments, one structured partnership access point.

Zone II: Highland Forest

Mt. Kulal & Marsabit highlands, up to 1,000mm rainfall, altitude to 2,066m. UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Highest biodiversity, forest carbon potential.

Zone IV: Semi-Arid Mid-Slopes

Transitional zone. Soil carbon measurement, agri-climate data, solar irrigation potential. Gateway between highland and dryland systems.

Zone V/VI: Arid Bushed Grassland

300–900m. Primary deployment zone for solar, water harvesting, and remote sensing. Rangeland restoration carbon potential.

Chalbi / Kaisut Desert

Extreme aridity, highest solar irradiance in East Africa. Unique conditions for atmospheric water and off-grid energy technology deployment.

"ASAL regions cover 80% of Kenya and 40% of sub-Saharan Africa. Climate technology proven in Laisamis is technology proven for one of the world's largest underserved markets."

Laisamis Climate & Land Initiative · Partnership Briefing 2026
Governance

Community-owned.
Constitutionally anchored.

The governance failures that damaged high-profile African land projects follow one pattern: weak consent, no legal anchor, benefits captured by intermediaries. We built the structure to prevent exactly that.

1

National Land Commission (NLC)

Constitutional body under Article 67. Nine formal forums completed across all 6 wards with documented resolutions. Cannot be overridden by any individual, NGO, or investor.

2

Community Land Trust

Being established with elected ward trustees from all five communities. Benefit-sharing agreements embedded from the start. Community-owned, not NGO-managed.

3

Marsabit County Government

Formal institutional cover through County Land CECM. Ensures continuity beyond individual election cycles or political changes.

4

Politicians as conveners only

The Laisamis MP and Governor open community assemblies. Governance authority rests entirely with the NLC and the Community Land Trust.

⚠ Legal Clarity

~173,700 hectares are subject to an active High Court case and are excluded from any partnership commitment until resolved. All agreements use only undisputed, NLC-registered land.

Who We Engage

Climate Tech Accelerators
  • Third Derivative / Rocky Mountain Institute
  • Factor[e] Ventures / Delta40
  • Elemental Impact
  • Breakthrough Energy Ventures
  • Katapult Climate
Development Finance
  • USAID / Feed the Future
  • GIZ Kenya
  • Green Climate Fund (GCF)
  • IFAD
  • African Development Bank
Institutional Partners
  • National Land Commission (NLC)
  • Marsabit County Government
  • Feiyah Action Network (FAN)
  • Marsabit Youth Reform Program
Insights

Knowledge from the field.

Land & Climate April 2026

Why ASAL Land is Africa's Most Undervalued Climate Technology Asset

The world's climate technology investors are searching for real-world deployment environments. Africa's dryland majority offers exactly that, and remains largely untapped.

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Governance April 2026

Community Land Governance in Northern Kenya: What the NLC Process Actually Means

The National Land Commission is Kenya's constitutional anchor for community land rights. What the process involves and what it protects communities from.

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Field Intelligence April 2026

Four Ecological Zones, One Constituency: A Field Guide for Climate Technology Deployment

From highland forest to Chalbi Desert floor, Laisamis contains four distinct environments within a single administrative boundary.

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Hamed Nalle, founder of LCLI
About

Rooted in Laisamis.
Built for the long term.

Hamed Nalle is a community development practitioner and social innovator born and raised in Laisamis Constituency. He is the son of the late Ntepesi Nalle, a respected community leader whose legacy of service directly informs the values on which this initiative is built.

Through the Feiyah Action Network (FAN) and the Marsabit Youth Reform Program, Hamed has built deep grassroots networks across the constituency, working on youth empowerment, gender equality, and environmental conservation for over a decade.

LCLI sits alongside FAN as the climate and carbon dimension of a longer-running community development effort in northern Kenya. The two organizations share values, geography, and community trust built over years on the ground in Laisamis Ward and across the constituency.

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Start a conversation.
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We are actively engaging climate technology partners, development finance institutions, carbon buyers, and research organisations. Tell us who you are. We respond within 48 hours.

Email hamednalle@laisamisclimate.co.ke
WhatsApp +254 706 594 510
Location Laisamis, Marsabit County, Kenya
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