LC2Project pipeline
01 / 03Our advisory practice keeps meeting the same obstacle in every sector we study, so the Lab is designing one shared answer to it, and testing it first where the evidence is hardest to produce.
People in Sub-Saharan Africa, within one of the world’s fastest-growing demographic regions.
The human and economic base is not niche. A young population, extensive informal activity, and hundreds of millions without reliable electricity create vast volumes of work, ownership, and participation that formal capital still cannot consistently see.
Across the Global South, real economic work goes unrecorded in any form capital can read. Materials recovered, rent paid on time and savings kept all count for nothing when it is time to raise finance.
USD 44bn in annual African climate-finance flows meets only about 23% of stated need.
Where verification does exist, it stays locked inside one platform, one lender or one country. Every new buyer or investor pays to check the same claim again.
More than 90% of African carbon-project verification relies on international providers; capacity gaps account for a reported 10–50% of delays and cost overruns.
When verified value is finally paid for, the people and firms who produced the evidence rarely receive a fair or predictable share of it.
Roughly 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa still lack electricity access, while informal activity across energy, materials, housing, and savings remains poorly evidenced.
LC2The Architecture
One shared protocol that sits beneath many sectors. Each sector measures and verifies its own evidence; Themba carries it into the financial system in a common form.
Themba is a catalyst, not a competitor. It is an enabling layer designed to strengthen existing institutions, platforms, and community systems without displacing them.
Same logic, different flow. Every sector connects to the same protocol.
Designed to do four things for every sector that connects to it.
Visit themba.club →Verified records belong to those who created them and move with them, across platforms, lenders and borders.
Buyers, lenders and regulators can confirm a claim on demand, without repeating the original checks.
The rules for sharing value are set in advance and applied automatically, so every contributor is treated on the same evidence.
Sustainability practices become a foundational economic layer, translating verified participation into a form of universal basic income.
Records that survive shocks, relocations and changes of lender.
Evidence of real activity becomes a basis for access to finance.
Verified instruments that can be priced and traded with confidence.
Value that moves between platforms and jurisdictions intact.
Verified activity can activate relevant financial services at the point of need.
Reusable proof becomes accessible to institutions without rebuilding the evidence chain.
With consent, verified records flow into credit decisions.
The Lab is in its partnership aggregation phase, convening aligned institutions, technical partners, and investors around the development pipeline. Detailed briefings are available directly.
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