GS1247 VPA 41 Gatsibo District Boreholes (GS4202)

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard domestic energy-efficiency project in Rwanda with VVB-verified additionality and no reported reversal events, but undermined by six open corrective actions, contradictory leakage and benefit-sharing justifications across monitoring reports, and the absence of verified ERR figures. The project-specific baseline was reassessed in 2024, and safeguards (FPIC, grievance mechanism) are documented, yet the volume of unresolved data inconsistencies limits confidence in the integrity of the credit claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Six corrective actions remain open, including missing household questionnaires, inconsistent project start-date reporting, and unuploaded ODA declaration and LSC compliance evidence
• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory: one monitoring report (Oct 2020) states leakage was 'quantified' while an earlier one (Jun 2020) calls it 'deemed negligible', yet the deduction applied is 0%
• ⚠Total ERR claimed differs by a factor of two between two monitoring reports (118,202 vs 234,127), and no verified ERR figure was found in any document
• ⚠Benefit-sharing description is affirmed in a 2020 monitoring report but denied in the 2025 validation report, creating uncertainty about stakeholder engagement quality
• ⚠Crediting period is stated as 2014–2021 in a 2020 monitoring report but 2025–2030 in the 2025 validation report, suggesting a re-validation that is not clearly documented in the extracted record

Credit Vintages