GS1247 VPA 129 Zoba Anseba Community Safe Water

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard community safe-water / energy-efficiency project in Eritrea with VVB-confirmed additionality and no reported reversal events, but undermined by a 0% leakage deduction with no documented justification, multiple outstanding corrective and forward action requests, and several cross-document contradictions (notably on FNRB value and method). The absence of a verified ERR figure and the use of a first-version methodology limit confidence in the claimed reductions.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with no justification stated in the verification report (2024-10-02), while the earlier monitoring report (2023-12-13) described leakage as 'quantified' — the more recent verification document takes precedence, leaving the 0% figure unsupported.
• ⚠FNRB value discrepancy: the PDD (2023-06-29) records 0.85 while the monitoring report (2023-11-30) uses 0.97; the validation report (2025-08-18) further states the method is 'local_field' whereas the monitoring report says 'national_default'. The higher monitoring value implies greater claimed reductions than the PDD baseline.
• ⚠Four outstanding corrective/forward action requests remain open, including annual borehole-failure monitoring, user-count verification with over-issuance compensation, duplication checks on user lists, and grievance-evidence submission.
• ⚠No verified ERR figure was found in the extracted record, preventing an independent cross-check of the 32,238 claimed reductions.

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