Climate Mitigation Project Development.
Development of innovative climate mitigation project pilots.
SaniTap develops and pilots innovative climate mitigation projects that generate high-integrity carbon emission reductions or removals, while also delivering tangible environmental and community benefits.
Our approach combines practical implementation experience with expertise in carbon methodologies, project structuring, and climate finance — enabling us to design projects that meet rigorous market and certification requirements. In addition to developing our own pilots, SaniTap provides advisory support to organisations seeking to design and implement high-quality mitigation projects. Our services span feasibility analysis, project structuring, innovative financing mechanisms, and development of monitoring and verification methods required for carbon credit issuance.
Endur'O — Piped Water Pilot.
Madagascar ranks among the world's most water-insecure nations, with only 48% of the population having access to improved water sources — a figure that falls to just 9% in rural areas. In the absence of safe drinking water, households routinely boil water using firewood or charcoal, driving significant deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, and a profound burden of waterborne disease.
SaniTap is addressing this cycle at its root in the Moramanga region — rehabilitating existing community water points and installing solar-powered, automated water kiosks (NATURANO Smartap kiosks). Each kiosk draws clean water from existing boreholes, purifies it, and dispenses it around the clock at affordable prices. The technology is designed, manufactured, and serviced entirely within Madagascar.
As households no longer need to burn biomass to sanitise water, the project eliminates a meaningful and measurable source of carbon emissions. Verified emissions reductions are certified under Gold Standard to generate carbon credits that continue to fund professional maintenance of every kiosk — making the clean water service genuinely sustainable over the long term.
Riparian bamboo restoration.
Along Madagascar's east coast, cyclone-driven floods strip riverbanks, destroy rice paddies and push rural households deeper into poverty. Project RiverGuard restores those banks with non-invasive clumping bamboo — stabilising soil, supplying communities with poles and fuel within three to five years, and relieving pressure on natural forest.
A 15-year Bambusa balcooa plantation near Fort Dauphin — 18.13 ha of measured canopy — anchors the science. The RiverGuard siting platform scores every ~500 m river segment on the east coast against that field-validated benchmark, and the 2026 three-river pilot has confirmed the platform's predictions on all three test sites.
Biochar carbon credit feasibility study.
Biochar is a stable, carbon-rich material produced by heating organic waste at high temperatures in low-oxygen conditions. It has significant potential as a long-duration carbon removal solution — when incorporated into soil, it sequesters carbon for hundreds of years while improving soil fertility and agricultural productivity.
SaniTap conducted a feasibility study to assess whether biochar production can be developed into a credible, financially-sustainable carbon credit project in Madagascar. The study evaluated the availability of suitable organic feedstocks, the viability of local production, and the pathway to certification under a recognised carbon standard.
SaniTap offers services to:
For partner organisations, NGOs, corporates and investors.
Conduct feasibility studies
Structured assessment of technical, financial, and regulatory viability for new climate mitigation project concepts.
Design project pilots
From concept to implementation: design and run pilot projects that validate technical assumptions and carbon accounting frameworks.
Project business models & financing
Carbon finance, blended-finance models, and results-based mechanisms to support long-term sustainability.
Mitigation methodology and evidence
Two levers, one country — how clean cooking and safe water avoid emissions in Madagascar
SaniTap's mitigation portfolio combines clean cooking and safe drinking water in a single country. Both cut biomass combustion; both are third-party verified...
10 MIN READ Science
Riverbanks, soil, water and carbon — the ecosystem science of riparian restoration
When a Malagasy river loses its banks, it does not just lose land. It loses the topsoil that fed those banks, the groundwater that recharged from them, the...
18 MIN READ Methodology
TPDDTEC v4.0 — how clean cookstove credits are calculated
Gold Standard's Technologies and Practices to Displace Decentralised Thermal Energy Consumption methodology is the foundational instrument for high-integrity...
15 MIN READ Explainer
How safe water displaces carbon emissions — the boil-water story
Safe-water carbon credits are less intuitive than clean-cookstove credits, yet the accounting logic is rigorous. This piece walks through the counterfactual...
12 MIN READMitigation project in development?
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