CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF THE MANGROVE ECOSYSTEM IN THE GAMBIA THROUGH THE REDD+ MECHANISM

Audit Analysis

A mangrove restoration project in The Gambia with VVB-confirmed additionality and a 10% buffer pool, but undermined by a project-specific baseline, a thin 0% leakage justification, a 31% upward revision of the ERR between the PDD and validation report, and a validation process that generated 12 corrective actions and 6 material findings. The absence of any monitoring-period data and low document extraction confidence limit confidence in the project's ongoing performance.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠ERR increased by ~31% from the PDD (83,711 tCO2e) to the validation report (109,997 tCO2e), with no monitoring data to corroborate the higher figure
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% justified only as 'deemed negligible' for a community-based mangrove restoration project where displacement of community land use is a plausible risk
• ⚠Material findings flag that planting density observed at site differed from the PDD description and mortality rate claims were inconsistent with site observations, raising questions about the accuracy of the underlying carbon stock assumptions
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set means at least one key document was poorly readable, limiting the reliability of the extracted evidence

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