The Kariba project is one of the largest registered REDD+ projects worldwide, it is a community-based project, administered by the four local Rural District Councils (RDCs) of Binga, Nyaminyami, Hurungwe, and Mbire. Through these councils, communities can highlight when and where they particularly need support. Investments in the project go towards a range of activities that promote the independence and wellbeing of these communities. Improved health clinics provide better healthcare, infrastructure including new roads, boreholes, biodigesters improve daily life, and school subsidies are offered to the poorest quartile of the population. Project activities in conservation agriculture, community gardens, beekeeping training, fire management, and ecotourism create jobs, and facilitate sustainable incomes, benefit the entire region.

Sitting on the shores of Lake Kariba, the project forms a giant wildlife corridor that connects four national parks: the Chizarira, Matusadona, and Mana Pools National Parks (also a World Heritage Site), and Zambia's Lower Zambezi National Park, with eight safari reserves! Within this, an expansive forest is home to numerous vulnerable and endangered species – including the African elephant, lion, hippo, lappet-faced vulture, and southern ground hornbill. Since its launch in 2011, the Kariba project has protected nearly 785,000 hectares from deforestation and degradation, preventing 3.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere on average every year. While supporting regional sustainable development and the independence and wellbeing of local communities.