GS1247 VPA 34 Improved Kitchen Regimes: Kaliro Safe Water Project

Audit Analysis

The Kaliro Safe Water Project (Gold Standard, Uganda) is an energy-efficiency project displacing decentralized thermal energy, with additionality confirmed by SustainCERT via a combined test and no reversal events reported. However, a 0% leakage deduction justified only as 'deemed negligible' (contradicted by the PDD's 5% figure), a project-specific baseline, and numerous open corrective actions and forward action requests weaken confidence in the robustness of the claims. The verified ERR matches the claimed figure exactly for the reporting period, and the verified usage rate (95%) exceeds the assumed rate (90%), indicating conservative crediting.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% justified as 'deemed negligible' in the 2022 monitoring report, while the 2023 PDD references a 5% deduction — the inconsistency is unresolved and the justification is thin for a project distributing water and cookstove technologies across multiple VPAs.
• ⚠Multiple open Forward Action Requests (FAR 01–05) and corrective actions remain unaddressed, including the requirement to submit an fNRB report at VPA level, justify monitoring options, and evaluate SDG indicators — indicating ongoing compliance gaps.
• ⚠The crediting period in the 2022 verification report (2014–2021) has already expired, while a 2025 validation report references a new period (2025–2030); the relationship between these periods and the 2023–2024 monitoring window is unclear, raising questions about which period the 8,135 tCO₂e figure actually covers.
• ⚠Usage rate assumed in the PDD is 0.9, but an appendix (2022) lists a value of 15, which is likely a data-entry or unit error; the discrepancy undermines confidence in the monitoring data pipeline.

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