Dison Ochola

Carbon markets · Climate action · Nairobi, Kenya

Dison Ochola

I work on the technical integrity of carbon projects: monitoring, reporting and verification, validation, and greenhouse gas accounting. My background is water resources engineering, with a focus on water, energy and the environment.

Dison Ochola smiling in a white shirt and red tie, with green hills behind him

Profile

About

I am a water resources engineer with a growing specialisation in carbon markets, climate mitigation, greenhouse gas accounting, and carbon project validation and verification. My focus is the mechanisms that quantify, independently assess and verify emissions reductions and removals before they become high-integrity carbon credits.

My interests cover carbon project development, baseline and additionality assessment, emissions quantification, permanence, leakage, uncertainty and safeguards. They extend to the voluntary carbon market, Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes, and to the link between carbon markets, corporate decarbonisation and climate finance.

My long-term ambition is to bridge engineering, carbon accounting, climate policy and sustainable finance so that credible carbon markets can support climate action across African economies. I welcome professional and research collaboration with project developers, validation and verification bodies, standards organisations, sustainability consultancies and climate finance institutions.

Now
Technical Consultant and Technical Local Expert, Ampere; Engineering Technical Lead, Myro-Tech Solutions
Studying
MSc Soil and Water Engineering, JKUAT, 2026 to 2028
Based in
Nairobi, Kenya

Skills

Carbon

Carbon markets, MRV, validation and verification, baseline and additionality, GHG accounting, ISO 14064

Engineering

Irrigation and drainage, hydrology, hydraulics, hydrogeology, WASH, water-resource planning, rainwater harvesting, renewable energy, climate-smart agriculture

Software

AutoCAD, ANSYS, RStudio, Microsoft Office, Google Workspace

Practice

Business analysis, energy auditing, data analysis, technical reporting, field supervision

Focus areas

Research

My MSc in Soil and Water Engineering builds on field work in carbon projects. These are the areas I research and want to work on.

Integrity of carbon projects

How do baselines, additionality tests and monitoring methodologies keep emissions reductions credible, and how are permanence, leakage and uncertainty handled?

  • MRV
  • Baseline and additionality
  • Permanence and leakage
  • Uncertainty
  • Safeguards

Carbon markets and climate policy

How do Article 6, corresponding adjustments and ITMOs shape carbon credit integrity, and how do they connect to corporate decarbonisation and climate finance?

  • Voluntary carbon market
  • Article 6
  • ITMOs
  • Climate finance

GHG accounting and standards

How can carbon management frameworks and standards such as ISO 14064 be applied to quantify and verify emissions?

  • Emissions quantification
  • ISO 14064
  • Carbon management
  • Verification

Land, soil and water mitigation

Which regenerative agriculture, soil carbon, biochar and water-use efficiency practices deliver measurable climate outcomes?

  • Soil organic carbon
  • Biochar
  • Sustainable land management
  • Nature-based solutions

My MSc thesis title and publications will be listed here as they become available.

Work

Experience

Oct 2025 to present

Ampere

Ampere for Renewable Energy

Technical Consultant, verification and validation

Feb 2026 to present

Technical Local Expert, Carbon Markets

Oct 2025 to present

  • Verify baseline data for WASH access, usage and service levels.
  • Validate climate and carbon assumptions in project design.
  • Monitor and verify emissions reductions and resilience outcomes.
  • Ensure data quality for MRV systems.
  • Support third-party audits and field inspections.
  • Document compliance with donor and carbon-market standards.
  • Prepare verification reports and evidence packages.
  • Conduct site surveys, interview project stakeholders and prepare retrofit recommendations.

Jan 2024 to present

Engineering Technical Lead

Myro-Tech Solutions

  • Lead engineering work at an engineering, consultancy and technical supply firm serving East Africa.
  • The firm pairs expert engineering services with a store that supplies industry-grade equipment and materials.

Jan 2019 to Mar 2026

Chief Technical Officer

Wawtex Solutions Limited, Kampala, Uganda

Nov 2024 to Feb 2025

Data Analyst and Energy Auditor

Green Building Design Group, South Africa

  • Analysed diesel, electricity, water and solar-energy utility data and verified municipal bills.
  • Reviewed building drawings and measured and verified floor areas.
  • Calculated water and energy use per unit area and prepared water and energy performance certificates.

2023

Energy Auditor Trainee

Eenovators Limited, Kenya

  • Carried out water and energy audits of systems to measure consumption and find inefficiencies.
  • Recommended efficiency measures such as equipment upgrades, retrofits and operational changes.
  • Ran cost-benefit analyses covering costs, savings and payback periods.
  • Checked compliance with energy regulations, building codes and standards including ASHRAE and LEED.

Study

Education

Sep 2026 to Aug 2028

MSc Soil and Water Engineering

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

Environmental Science.

Aug 2017 to Jun 2022

BSc Water Resources Engineering

Busitema University

Civil Engineering. Second Class Honours, Upper Division. Admitted to the 12th Congregation on 24 June 2022.

Certifications and training

  • Certified Environmental and Water Sanitary Inspector (2023)
  • Energy Auditor, YEEP (2021)
  • Real Water Saving in Agricultural Systems, FAO Future Water
  • Combining Farmer and Science-Based Knowledge
  • Humanitarian Skills for Engineers
  • E-mobility for Manager Development Program
  • HSE, Project Management and Geophysics

Recognition

Awards

Scholarship

DAAD In-Country/In-Region Scholarship

Sub-Saharan Africa

Awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service for the MSc in Soil and Water Engineering.

Scholarship

Government of Uganda Scholarship

2022

Second Class Honours, Upper Division

Busitema University

Awarded with the BSc in Water Resources Engineering.

Professional memberships

  • Uganda Institute of Professional Engineers (UIPE)
  • International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)
  • African Young Water Professionals
  • Energy Efficiency Association of Uganda

Leadership

  • District Youth Representative, Osia Sub-County
  • Project Coordinator, Rotaract Club Tororo Sam-Owori
  • Speaker, Busitema University Adhola Students Association
  • Student Coordinator, Industrial Training, Busitema University

Reach me

Contact

Working on a carbon project, a verification or a climate finance question? Write to me.

disonochola007@gmail.com Open in email app