GS1247 VPA 135 Zoba Maekel Community Boreholes

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard community borehole project in Eritrea with VVB-confirmed additionality and no reversal events, but undermined by ten documented contradictions between source documents, a shift in leakage treatment from a 5% quantified deduction to a 0% 'deemed negligible' claim, a significant upward revision of the fNRB (0.85 to 0.97), and the absence of any buffer pool. The volume of open corrective actions and material findings (including a double-counting issue for proximate boreholes) raises material concerns about the robustness of the credit claim.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Ten contradictions across documents, including leakage deduction shifting from 5% (PDD) to 0% (monitoring report) and fNRB rising from 0.85 to 0.97, both of which increase the credit volume
• ⚠Double-counting of users for proximate boreholes (ZMA 054/055, ZMA 056/057) was raised as a material finding and required correction
• ⚠Five FAR items (SDG indicators, fNRB report, monitoring justification) remain open as of the latest verification
• ⚠Crediting period end date is undefined in the verification report (2017-12-08 to null), creating uncertainty about the project's temporal scope

Credit Vintages