Kwame MensahElmina, GhanaReport AvailableExample project

Women in Coastal Fisheries Cooperative

Training and micro-finance helping women-led fish-processing cooperatives capture more value.

Social EmpowermentLivelihoodsGender EquityCooperatives

About this project

This is a strong, community-centred proposal that plausibly delivers economic and gender equity benefits by strengthening women-led fish-processing cooperatives. Scores reflect high community relevance and likely additionality, with modest gaps in open-science practices, explicit ecological/scientific justification, and a need for a formal dMRV plan to make claims verifiable over time.

AI summary by the Ozeaon Climate Intelligence System

Why this integrity score?

The OCIS Integrity Report below explains the reasoning behind the headline score — dimension by dimension — and is readable in full here.

Score Reasoning — Dimensions

The headline score is a weighted sum of six integrity dimensions assessed by the Ozeaon Climate Intelligence System.

Scientific Rigor20% weight
80
Practical, evidence-informed interventions (training, microfinance) but proposal lacks citations to peer-reviewed evaluations, a clear theory of change, and explicit ecological impact studies.
Open Science15% weight
75
Training materials and outcomes could be shared, but the proposal does not commit to open data, protocols, or reproducible evaluation materials.
Measurability (dMRV)20% weight
80
Core socioeconomic metrics (income, value-capture, loan performance) are measurable digitally, but no baseline, indicator list, or digital reporting pipeline is provided.
Additionality & Impact15% weight
85
Intervention is likely to increase local value capture for women and produce real social benefits beyond business-as-usual, though environmental additionality is less clear.
Transparency & Governance15% weight
85
Cooperative model implies local governance and accountable flows, but the proposal lacks explicit fund flow statements, roles/responsibilities, and grievance mechanisms.
Community & Equity15% weight
95
Strong focus on women-led cooperatives, capacity building, and microfinance suggests high levels of participation, leadership and direct benefits for a marginalized group.

Strengths

High community relevance: targets women-led cooperatives with direct, locally managed interventions.
Likely clear social additionality: improved incomes, value capture and empowerment for women.
Scalable, low-tech interventions (training + microfinance) that can be monitored through financial and operational records.
Cooperative governance creates a natural structure for accountability and benefit-sharing.

Risks & Gaps

No baseline, KPI list, or documented dMRV pipeline — makes verifying claims and tracking progress difficult.
Limited evidence presented on ecological impacts; risk of inadvertently increasing fishing pressure if volume incentives are not managed.
Lack of explicit open-data commitments, independent evaluation plans, or clear fund-flow transparency.

dMRV Recommendation

Tier

Tier 1 — Foundational

Cadence

Quarterly internal reporting (operational KPIs) with annual aggregated reporting and an annual external verification/audit

Recommended

Yes

The project’s principal outcomes are socioeconomic (income, value capture, empowerment) and are readily measurable with low-cost digital tools. A Tier 1 foundational dMRV—mobile surveys, digital financial records, and simple supply-chain traceability—will allow robust, repeatable measurement of outputs and outcomes. Annual external verification plus published anonymized datasets and protocols will enable transparency, reproducibility, and credible claims. Because ecological effects are indirect, pair the social dMRV with basic fishery safeguards and local monitoring if environmental claims are to be made.

Mobile/household/cooperative surveys (KoBoToolbox or ODK) for baseline and follow-upsDigital financial records and mobile-money transaction exports for loan and income trackingSupply-chain traceability (simple QR code or transaction ledger per batch) to measure value captureParticipatory monitoring and photographic evidence for operational activities

About this project

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