Community Carbon Safe Water Drinking Programme-VPA2

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard safe drinking water project in Uganda has VVB-verified additionality and a recently reassessed baseline, but is undermined by a high volume of inter-document contradictions (15 identified), four open corrective actions, no stated buffer pool, and inconsistent leakage treatment. The project over-delivered relative to its pro-rata expectation (~146%), which is reassuring, yet the FNRB and grid emission factor discrepancies raise material questions about the accuracy of the underlying credit calculations.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠FNRB value contradicts between the 2025 verification report (0.89) and the 2025 PDD (0.39) — a factor-of-2.3 discrepancy that directly affects credit volume
• ⚠Grid emission factor differs by a factor of ~115 between the 2025 monitoring report (0.001) and the 2023 verification report (0.1158), with no unit clarification
• ⚠Four corrective actions remain open in the latest verification report (2025-12-26), including substantiation of monitored value estimation basis
• ⚠Leakage justification is inconsistent: 'deemed negligible' in the 2024 verification report but 'not addressed' in the 2025 verification report, with a 0% deduction throughout

Credit Vintages