Shamba Network
Developing digital tools using satellite data and AI for ecological monitoring, verification, and climate insurance, aimed at supporting small farmers and building a regenerative community in Kenya.User Review
AI Review
A1
Reviewed on 14 Feb 2024 01:45 PM
Projects must be at least 3 months old. We use Twitter, web domain registration date, and other public info to determine this. Newer projects should establish themselves and submit to the next round.
Based on the provided project website and Twitter handle which can be dated, Shamba Network appears to be in operation for more than 3 months.
The Grant must be **primarily focused on climate solutions** (the group may do other work but the grant proposal should be directly related to climate solutions). The proposal should explicitly outline how this project will help reduce GHGs or is an important core infrastructure for web3 climate solutions. - Examples include: Renewable Energy, Oracles & DMRV, Supply Chain Analysis, Carbon Accounting, climate activists / collectives, Natural Systems CO2 Sequestration
Shamba Network is focused on climate solutions using dMRV systems, which are relevant to CO2 sequestration and climate resilience, meeting the criteria for a climate solution focus.
Grantees who received funding in a previous round(s) **must provide a new update on their progress and impact.** You can also include the challenges you've faced. This will ensure accountability to supporters and also help encourage contributors by showing what you’ve been accomplishing. - We encourage grantees to mint Hypercerts for the work and the impact they have accomplished. Priority review will be given to grantees who have minted a Hypercert.
The project has indeed provided updates on their progress such as hosting ReFi Kenya festival and onboarding more farmers. However, no mention of a Hypercert being minted was provided.
All returning grantees are expected to update their proposal, in addition to project updates the proposal should include lessons learned from previous work and how they will use the additional funding from the upcoming round. The updated proposal should indicate how additional funding will help the project meet its goals, and include a rough timeline for the project overall.
While Shamba Network outlines their progress and what's next, the evaluation does not provide sufficient detail to confirm if they have adequately updated their proposal, explained lessons learned, and how additional funding will be used with a rough timeline.
There is a general expectation that projects are within the **“realm of viability”**. - Even if a project is very early, it must still seem credible to the average person with an understanding of web3 technology and climate solutions. Including information about the team's expertise, qualifications and skills will help us review your grant. - Grantee founders must genuinely intend to build the project, and the project must not broadly be considered an impossibility.
The Shamba Network presents a project dealing with verifiable climate solutions using satellite data, AI, and involves community participation which seems credible and within the realm of viability. No information was provided that would suggest otherwise.
Grantees can be eliminated from consideration in the round if they are found to be encouraging or enabling Sybil attacks or other forms of malicious manipulation of the grants platform or the Gitcoin community.
There is no information suggesting that Shamba Network is encouraging or enabling Sybil attacks or other forms of malicious manipulation.