Roburna Forest — Case Study

Environmental dashboard displaying reforestation data and real-time impact metrics.

18th March 2025

18th March 2025Case StudyImpact Dashboard
Roburna Forest
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Year: 2025

Scope: Public-facing dashboard for tracking reforestation progress and donor impact in real time.

Timeline

2–3 Months

Team

Product Designer

Data Engineer

Frontend Engineer

Tools

Figma

React

D3.js

PostgreSQL

Overview

Roburna Forest tracks reforestation projects across multiple regions, translating raw sensor and survey data into a dashboard donors and partners can actually understand.

The goal was trust through transparency: every number on the dashboard traces back to a verifiable data source.

The Challenge

Impact reporting in this space is often vague by necessity. We needed to be specific without overwhelming a non-technical audience.

  • Underlying data came from inconsistent regional sources
  • Non-technical donors needed metrics, not raw datasets
  • Trust required visible provenance, not just polished charts

Approach

We built a normalization layer for regional data feeds and designed the dashboard around a handful of headline metrics with drill-down detail available on demand.

  • Standardized ingestion pipeline across regional data partners
  • Headline metrics surfaced first, detail available on click
  • Every stat links back to its source dataset

Before & After

Before

Impact updates were shared as periodic PDF reports with no live view.

  • Static quarterly reports
  • No source traceability
  • Manual data compilation

After

A live public dashboard updated automatically as new field data arrives.

  • Real-time public dashboard
  • Traceable data sources
  • Automated ingestion pipeline

Outcomes

The dashboard is now the primary reporting surface shown to funding partners.

  • Reporting turnaround dropped from weeks to real time
  • Donor renewal conversations now reference the live dashboard directly
  • Regional teams gained a shared source of truth for field data

Reflection

Traceability turned out to be more persuasive than polish — donors trusted a plainer dashboard with visible sources over a prettier one without them.

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