African Biogas Carbon Programme (ABC) - Kenya - VPA001

Audit Analysis

The African Biogas Carbon Programme in Kenya is a VVB-verified biogas project with a confirmed barrier additionality test and a measured project-specific baseline reassessed in 2024. However, the verification report (December 2025) lists over 13 clarification items and 8 corrective actions, including missing survey evidence, inconsistent parameter values, a not-approved deviation request, and a revalidation delay that blocked Certified Impact Statements. The absence of a buffer pool, the FPIC contradiction, and the volume of unresolved documentation gaps materially weaken confidence in the project's integrity and documentation quality.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Deviation Request DEV_652 was NOT approved, and no Certified Impact Statements shall be issued for the delay period from 25/11/2023 (verification report, Dec 2025)
• ⚠13+ clarification items (CLs) and 8 corrective actions (CARs) remain open, including missing survey questionnaires, contracts, ownership proof, and raw PFT data (verification report, Dec 2025)
• ⚠FPIC status is contradictory: the PDD (2023) states FPIC was conducted, while the monitoring report (2020) states it was not
• ⚠Multiple calculation and data-entry errors in the ER sheet, plus inconsistencies in fixed and monitoring parameter values versus the ER sheet (CL 05, CL 11)

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