SECTOR

Climate & environment

Run resilience, adaptation, and conservation programs on one offline platform, from field to dashboard.

  Resilience
Conservation
Adaptation

The Challenge

Climate and environmental teams work across large areas where conditions shift fast and field data stays incomplete.

Working far from connectivity

Remote sites often have little or no network coverage.

Coordinating many partners

Programs span agencies, communities, and local organizations.

Engaging community members

Local volunteers need simple tools to log observations.

CommCare in action

CommCare for Climate & Environment Programs

HIGHLIGHT 1 · MONITOR

Capture field data without waiting for connectivity

  • Record rainfall, water level, and vegetation condition offline
  • Auto-capture GPS and attach geotagged site photos
  • Saved offline and synced to dashboards the moment you reconnect
HIGHLIGHT 2 · ADAPT

Deliver climate-smart practices household by household

  • Guide field teams through a season-tuned advisory checklist
  • Confirm drought-resistant seed and water-harvesting steps on the visit
  • Track practice adoption and schedule the follow-up automatically
HIGHLIGHT 3 · ENGAGE

Reach vulnerable households between every visit

  • Target broadcasts by zone, risk, and climate-smart enrollment
  • Compose two-way SMS and voice tied to each household record
  • See reach, cost, and reply routing before you send
HIGHLIGHT 4 · REPORT

Show outcomes at the level funders ask for

  • See reach, adoption, and area under climate-smart practice on one dashboard
  • Break results down by zone, practice, and season
  • Push audit-ready exports straight to GCF and GEF report templates

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PARTNER STORIES

Climate & environment programs built on CommCare

From conservation-area behavior change to community-owned safe water and climate-resilient livelihoods, here’s what teams have built on CommCare.

Featured Program

Gorongosa, Mozambique: nutrition behavior change in a conservation area

Near Gorongosa National Park, CommCare pairs GiveDirectly cash transfers with SMS nudges toward improved nutrition, reaching families in a protected-area buffer zone through one connected workflow.

Gorongosa National Park behavior-change program in Mozambique
FEATURED PROGRAM
Cash + SMS
Mozambique · Gorongosa Project + GiveDirectly
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ACROSS USE CASES

Climate resilience and conservation, across every use case.

Use the power of CommCare to run climate and environment programs end to end, across every use case.

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Any use case

One platform, every workflow.

From service delivery and monitoring to research and engagement, the same platform adapts to whatever your climate and environment program needs. Pick a use case to see how it tunes.

  • No-code workflows for frontline teams
  • Offline-first, multi-language, multi-country
  • Real-time dashboards and donor-ready reporting
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COMMON QUESTIONS

Climate & Environment FAQs

Field Work

Can CommCare support environmental monitoring at remote sites?
Yes. Field teams record indicators such as rainfall, water level, and vegetation condition, auto-capture GPS, and attach geotagged site photos, all without waiting for connectivity.
Can CommCare help deliver climate-smart practices?
Yes. Teams guide households through season-tuned advisory checklists, confirm steps such as drought-resistant seed and water harvesting on the visit, and track practice adoption over time.
Can CommCare engage communities between visits?
Yes. Programs send targeted two-way SMS and voice messages tied to each household record, segmented by zone, risk, and climate-smart enrollment.

Data & Getting Started

Does CommCare work offline in the field?
Yes, CommCare is offline-first. Data is saved on the device at remote sites with little or no network coverage and syncs to dashboards the moment teams reconnect.
How does funder reporting work?
Dashboards show reach, adoption, and area under climate-smart practice by zone, practice, and season. You can push audit-ready exports to GCF and GEF report templates and export to Excel, Power BI, and Tableau.
How do we get started?
CommCare has a free edition, and paid plans start at $100 per month. Build your first app with the no-code app builder, or contact our team to scope your program.
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