GS1247 VPA 123 Zoba Anseba Community Safe Water

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard cookstove project in Eritrea has VVB-confirmed additionality and conservative delivery (emissions below ex-ante estimates), but is undermined by a cluster of parameter changes between the PDD and monitoring reports (fnrb, leakage, usage rate), a lack of verified ERR figures, and unresolved corrective actions. The leakage treatment is contradictory across documents, and the absence of a buffer pool or permanence mechanism leaves residual risk unaddressed.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction reduced from 5% in the PDD to 0% in the monitoring report, with the verification report stating leakage was 'not addressed' while the monitoring report claims it was 'deemed negligible' — no consistent justification is documented
• ⚠No verified ERR figure is available in the extracted record, making it impossible to independently confirm the 32,238 tCO2e claimed for the 2023–2024 monitoring period
• ⚠Multiple open corrective actions (FAR 01, FAR 02, duplication check for user lists, grievance evidence) remain unresolved at the time of the verification report
• ⚠Borehole ZA017 was removed from monitoring due to non-functionality, indicating infrastructure reliability issues within the project portfolio
• ⚠Crediting period is contradictory: the verification report (Oct 2024) states 2017–2024, while a validation report dated Aug 2025 states 2025–2030, suggesting a possible re-validation that is not clearly documented in the available record

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