Zambia Biodiversity Intelligence & Investment Platform
Africa’s green investment,
measured properly.
Submit your project once. Run it through the engines that actually apply to it. Walk away with an investor-ready scorecard, a complete pitch deck and a full business plan — every number traceable to its source, and no consultant in the loop.
Built by Nsembe Technologies·Lusaka, Zambia
Photo: Ed Wingate / Unsplash
How it works
From project data to a funder-ready pack
Submit your project
Choose your enterprise type and enter your firm and project details once. Every number you enter has a field for where it came from, so every figure in your documents can be traced.
Run the engines that apply
Your enterprise type decides which of the eleven engines are relevant. A honey producer is not scored on carbon credit issuance. Each engine returns the same scorecard object: a score, a grade, the evidence, and what to fix.
Export the pack
A readiness scorecard, a pitch deck and a business plan — generated as PDF and Word from what you entered, with a methodology annex naming every source.
Enterprises
Not every engine applies to every project
A honey producer should not be scored on carbon credit issuance, and a software platform has no hectares to restore. Your enterprise type — defined by how revenue reaches you — decides which engines run, how your revenue is modelled, and which sections your pitch deck needs.
Nature-based product enterprises
What you sell
Goods sold by weight, by item or by batch
Revenue grows with what you harvest, process and sell.
- ✓Forest honey and moringa
- ✓Fruit, tea and aquaculture
- ✓Clean cookstoves and biochar
Environmental outcome projects
What you sell
A measured, verified outcome — carbon, biodiversity or water
Revenue arrives once an outcome is verified and paid for, often years after the work starts.
- ✓Forest carbon
- ✓Biodiversity credits
- ✓Payments for watershed services
Technology and data services
What you sell
Recurring access — a subscription, licence or usage fee
Revenue depends on users joining and staying.
- ✓Biodiversity data platforms
- ✓Agricultural marketplaces
Integrated landscape enterprises
What you sell
A mix of product sales, service fees and outcome payments
Several revenue streams that mature at different speeds.
- ✓Community-based natural resource management
- ✓Women- and youth-led landscape enterprises
- ✓Urban greening
Platform
One reporting layer for an entire portfolio.
Every project — a forest carbon concession, a honey cooperative, a conservancy, a data platform — runs through the same modular engines and returns the same standard scorecard: a score, a grade, the evidence behind it, and specific recommendations. Portfolio holders see it all in one place; investors compare projects on equal footing.
- Explainable scoring — every number cites the standard it came from
- Where no standard publishes a number, we say so rather than implying authority
- Framework-driven — Zambia Green Taxonomy, IFRS S1/S2, ICVCM, UN SEEA
- Built for low-connectivity institutions, not just head offices
- Investment readiness scorecardGenerated
- Financial model — statements and valuationGenerated
- Pitch deck — 12 slidesGenerated
- Business planGenerated
- Complete report — PDF and WordGenerated
- Methodology annexGenerated
Generated from the data you enter once, so the scorecard, the deck and the plan always tell the same story.
Methodology
Eleven intelligence engines
Each engine is independently versioned, names the methodology it implements, and returns the same standard scorecard object — so the dashboard never needs engine-specific code, and a reviewer can always ask where a number came from.
Financial Model
liveMarket sizing, unit economics, break-even, and a reconciling three-statement projection with NPV, IRR and DSCR.
Nsembe Financial Methodology; IAS 1, 7 & 16; CIMA; Brealey–Myers–Allen; Yescombe
Investment Readiness
liveGovernance, business model and financials, combined with the pillar scores from every other engine that applies.
Composite — ZBIIP weighting
ESG
liveEnvironmental, social, governance and disclosure composite scoring.
Industry-standard E/S/G/Disclosure structure
Biodiversity
liveHabitat, species, restoration, connectivity and monitoring capacity.
Habitat/species composite — IUCN NbS alignment in progress
Carbon
liveAdditionality, permanence, leakage and MRV readiness, with buffer-adjusted credit quantification.
ICVCM Core Carbon Principles; Verra VCS / AFOLU risk tool
Biodiversity Credits
liveHabitat units, market eligibility, and uplift measured across a metric basket.
Wallacea Trust biodiversity credit methodology
Green Finance Taxonomy
liveSubstantial contribution, Do No Significant Harm, and minimum social safeguards.
Zambia Green Finance Taxonomy (MGEE)
Natural Capital
liveExtent, condition and ecosystem-service accounts for the natural assets a project depends on.
UN SEEA Ecosystem Accounting
Green Growth
liveResource use, natural capital protection, green economic opportunity and social inclusion.
Zambia Green Growth Index (GGGI / MoGEE)
IFRS S1
liveSustainability-related disclosure across governance, strategy, risk management and metrics.
IFRS S1 (TCFD-derived four pillars)
IFRS S2
liveClimate-related disclosure, scenario analysis and Scope 1/2/3 greenhouse gas metrics.
IFRS S2; GHG Protocol Corporate Standard
About
Built by Nsembe Technologies
ZBIIP is built and run by Nsembe Technologies, based in Lusaka. It exists to build a pipeline of bankable biodiversity projects in Zambia — giving project teams the tools to put their case in a funder's language, and giving investors a reviewed, comparable view of that pipeline — in support of Zambia's commitments under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, Target 19 on resource mobilisation.
Its core instruments — the financial modelling methodology, the enterprise types and the document templates — are Nsembe’s own. Everything else is grounded in published standards and Zambian policy, and every number cites where it came from.
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Intelligence engines
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Enterprise types
12
Pitch deck slides
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Export formats — PDF and Word
Industries
Built across sectors, not just conservation
For organizations
Run the assessment, get the pack
Submit your project data, run the engines that apply to your enterprise, and generate your scorecard, pitch deck and business plan as PDF. Free while you build readiness. Listing to investors is opt-in and reviewed, so you decide when you are ready to be seen.
Create a project accountFor investors & financiers
Compare projects on equal footing
Browse investment-ready projects, filter by sector, province and enterprise type, and download standardised reports before you ever pick up the phone. Portal access is invitation-based while we build verified supply — join the waiting list and we will be in touch.
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