Grouped Projects for Safe Water Program in Uganda

Audit Analysis

A VCS-registered safe drinking water project in Uganda using the AMS-III.AV methodology, with solid additionality (combined test, VVB-verified) and a quantified 5% leakage deduction. However, the project carries notable gaps: permanence risk is unaddressed with no buffer pool, the baseline is project-specific rather than jurisdictional, and 17 material findings (including calculation errors and missing installation records) were raised during verification, all subsequently closed. The project delivered approximately 76% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the elapsed monitoring period, indicating conservative crediting.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Permanence risk is explicitly not addressed: no buffer pool percentage is stated and the project proponent has not determined a non-permanence risk rating, leaving reversal exposure unquantified
• ⚠17 material findings were raised during verification, including use of an outdated household size (4.6 vs. the correct 4.2 from the 2024 census), emission reduction calculations initially extending beyond the crediting period end-date, and missing dispenser installation records
• ⚠Benefit sharing is described as present in the validation report but absent in the more recent verification report, creating an unresolved contradiction on a key social-safeguard element
• ⚠The fNRB value differs substantially between the PDD (0.8857) and the verification report (0.655), a 26% discrepancy that affects baseline emission calculations

Credit Vintages