GS1247 VPA 159 Improved Kitchen Regimes Manica Province Safe Water (Mozambique)

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard kitchen-improvement project in Mozambique has a VVB-confirmed additionality assessment and a recently reassessed (2024) project-specific baseline, but suffers from a 0% leakage deduction with inconsistent justification across documents, no stated buffer pool, unresolved material findings (missing survey signatures, incomplete borehole records), and a low extraction confidence that undermines data reliability. The absence of a verified ERR figure and the lack of an ex-ante lifetime estimate prevent a meaningful over- or under-delivery check.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Total ERR verified is not stated in any available document, preventing independent verification of claimed reductions
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% is justified as 'deemed negligible' in the verification report but described as 'quantified' in the 2024 monitoring report — the two characterisations are inconsistent
• ⚠Three corrective actions remain open (surveyor/interviewee signatures, water transport evidence, borehole details), indicating monitoring data quality issues
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated low, meaning at least one key document was poorly readable and the extracted record may be incomplete

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