GS1247 VPA 199 Improved Kitchen Regimes Manica Province Safe Water (Mozambique)

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard PoA project in Mozambique (improved kitchen regimes and safe water) has VVB-confirmed additionality and a recently reassessed baseline, but is undermined by a large discrepancy between claimed and verified ERR figures, an extensive list of open corrective actions spanning multiple verification cycles, and the absence of a stated buffer pool. The low extraction confidence and numerous unresolved documentation gaps significantly weaken confidence in the project's data integrity.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Verified ERR (57,338) is approximately 5.9× the claimed ERR (9,791) — a discrepancy that is unexplained and raises serious over-crediting or data-reliability concerns
• ⚠Extensive list of open corrective actions (CARs and CLs) spanning multiple verification cycles, including missing survey signatures, unsubmitted databases, and unresolved SDG indicator gaps
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% in the verification report contradicts a 5% figure in the PDD, and the justification shifted from 'deemed negligible' to 'quantified' between two verification reports
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set, indicating at least one key document was poorly readable

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