The road into the QIA land reparation site in Western North, Ghana, with the site sign at the turning and a QIA vehicle beside it

Operations

Quick Impact Agency

admin@quickimpactagency.org

[ Berlin / Sefwi Bekwai ]

[ Who we are ]

QIA is a non-governmental organization established in Berlin, Germany, with the aim to restore and revive damaged ecosystems and build thriving communities.

[ Our vision ]

We envision a world where humans and nature live in harmony and symbiotic relationship with one another. A place of economic prosperity, healthy ecosystems and progressive cooperative communities. A place where we all live consciously.

[ Sefwi Bekwai, September 2026 ]

  • Mined ground beginning to green over, grass and scrub returning across the tailings between the pits

    Worked-out ground, greening on its own

  • Four farmers standing among mature cocoa trees, one holding a ripe pod

    Farmers in established cocoa nearby

  • Residents of a project community gathered on the road outside, with QIA staff among them

    A project community, in full

QIA staff meeting the chief and elders of a project community, the traditional authority whose consent the land agreements rest on

From signed parcel to verified carbon — every stage, ourselves.

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Land & carbon rights

Every hectare enters the project through a signed agreement with its owner — a 50-year lease with carbon rights, executed parcel by parcel and backed by an anti-mining commitment from the Traditional Council.

5 of 30 parcels signed · 5,101 hectares mapped

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[ One system ]

Five parts, holding each other up.

Building healthy land

  • Rehabilitating mined and deforested parcels into productive agroforestry systems under 50-year agreements.
  • 5,101 hectares mapped across two clusters in Ghana's Western North.
Seedlings under shade netting at the QIA nursery
Cocoa pods ripening on a shaded tree in an established agroforestry plot near Sefwi Bekwai

[ Established cocoa, Sefwi Bekwai ]

[ Who runs it ]

Three people, two countries

Restoration projects are judged on whether the people running them can deliver. These are ours, and where each of them sits.

  • Berlin / Accra

    Jay Credo Wonder

    Founding Director

    Co-founder of QIA, elected by its founding members. Seventeen years building businesses across Ghana and Germany.

  • Berlin

    Daniel Naydenov

    Head of Operations and Environmental Lead

    Authored the VM0047 project document and commissioned the ZALF Berlin soil baseline. Completing an M.Sc. at Humboldt Berlin on galamsey in Sefwi Bekwai — the community this project restores.

  • Sefwi Bekwai

    Isaac Danso

    Community Liaison and Local Finance Advisor

    Born and professionally established in the project area. Twenty years in Ghana’s cocoa sector and an Audit Committee member of Juaboso District Assembly.

QIA Ghana is directed by Nana Danso Asare, a paramount chief of the area. He takes no personal share of carbon revenue; stool revenue goes to the Lands Commission Stool Land Account under Article 267 of Ghana’s constitution.

[ How QIA is structured ]

Two entities, one organisation

Money is raised and audited in Germany. It is spent by a Ghanaian entity, staffed by Ghanaians, based in the region where the work happens.

  • Berlin, Germany

    Quick Impact Agency e.V.

    • Registered association (eingetragener Verein) under German law
    • Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, VR 40254 B
    • Receives donations and grants, holds fiduciary responsibility, reports to German authorities

  • Sefwi Bekwai, Western North Region

    QIA Ghana

    • Established and operating in the region where the projects are
    • Directed by Nana Danso Asare, a paramount chief of the area, not an appointee from Berlin
    • Runs field operations and employs the local team
    • Holds the relationships with communities and traditional authorities
    • 60% of net carbon revenue goes to the communities and local institutions that hold the land
    • The Paramount Chief takes no personal share of carbon revenue

Where a donation goes

donationtransferspendfield priorities and decisionsreporting and accountsYOUYour giftMonthly or one-off,in euroBERLIN, GERMANYQIA e.V.Receives and accounts for itReports to German authoritiesSEFWI BEKWAI, GHANAQIA GhanaEmploys the field teamDirected by Nana Danso AsareWESTERN NORTHThe workLand, farmers,training centreMONEYDECISIONS AND REPORTING
  1. 01You give in euro
  2. 02QIA e.V. receives and accounts for it in Berlin
  3. 03Funds transfer to QIA Ghana
  4. 04Spent on the ground in Western North

This is deliberate. A Berlin association cannot credibly run a Ghanaian project by remote control, and funders are right to ask why so many do.

[ Where the project stands ]

  1. what funding buys

    5,101 hectares mapped, 5 parcels signedTwo clusters in Western North. Agreements are executed parcel by parcel across stool, family and individual title; the remaining parcels are targeted for the end of September 2026
  2. 40-hectare pilot under analysisBaseline soil testing carried out by ZALF Berlin, not by us
  3. 300 farmers reachedThe Healthy Harvest Network, ahead of phase one enrolment
  4. Training centre designedCurriculum written, four trades, site identified
  5. VCS/CCB registrationDeveloped to the Verra VM0047 methodology. Not yet registered
  6. 2 million trees, 715,000 tonnes CO₂Project targets. Nothing delivered against them yet
  7. Biochar kilnPlanned against feedstock the region already wastes. Not built
  8. Construction and first cohortUnfunded. This is what a funder would be paying for

Status as of August 2026. Everything above the line is done and paid for; everything below it is not. Figures below the line are targets, not results.

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