Bandai Hills Bamboo Reforestation Project, Ghana

Audit Analysis

The Bandai Hills Bamboo Reforestation Project in Ghana is a VCS-registered ALM project with a VVB-verified combined additionality test and a 10% buffer pool, but it carries notable weaknesses: a 0% leakage deduction with no stated justification, a project-specific baseline, and no carbon content testing. The documentation record is further undermined by low extraction confidence, five inter-document contradictions, and the apparent absence of any post-validation monitoring report.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with the justification recorded as 'not addressed' in the most recent validation report (2024-03-15), which is a significant gap for a reforestation project where displaced land-use change is a realistic risk.
• ⚠No monitoring period or post-validation monitoring report is present in the extracted record; the claimed and verified ERR figures are identical (3,778,511), suggesting no independent post-implementation verification has been conducted.
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated 'low', indicating at least one key document was poorly readable, which undermines confidence in the completeness of the evidence base.
• ⚠Carbon content was not tested and storage was not independently verified, despite the project being classified in the soil-carbon sector.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.