The need for better social impact evidence is no longer theoretical, it’s pressing, practical, and already shaping how conservation and carbon finance are assessed.
Yet, the understanding of how people experience social change as a result of finance for nature remains underdeveloped. Social monitoring data is still too often collected about communities, not with them.
REFLECT for Nature is an end-to-end, human-centred evaluation service designed and customised for organisations working on nature-based solutions. It addresses a longstanding gap in understanding how conservation initiatives impact people – not just in numbers, but in lived experience. Built for complexity and context, it turns qualitative insights into rigorous, actionable evidence that drives better decisions, stronger accountability, and more meaningful impact.
REFLECT for Carbon is a self-service, tech-enabled platform that integrates social monitoring, reporting and verification (sMRV) into the carbon project lifecycle to understand and track social change. Built with developers in mind, it helps them meet integrity expectations, improve project resilience, and demonstrate benefits beyond carbon.
Level is launching an Early Adopters Programme to beta-test RfC with a small cohort of well-established REDD + and ARR carbon projects. This is a unique opportunity to shape a product designed to serve the carbon sector’s evolving social integrity needs, and to de-risk project operational failure.
Reflecting on impact starts with listening. Kisaro Thomas Lombutwa, Makame Savannah Project Manager at Carbon Tanzania, shares how his community helped test REFLECT – a new approach to understanding the lived experience of conservation.