GS1247 VPA 71 Lango Safe Water Project

Audit Analysis

The Lango Safe Water Project (VPA 71) is a Gold Standard domestic water-pumping efficiency project in Uganda with VVB-confirmed additionality and a recently reassessed baseline, but it is burdened by 22 open corrective actions, extensive material findings (including fNRB calculation errors and breakdown-day inconsistencies), and ten cross-document contradictions that undermine confidence in the underlying data. The absence of a buffer pool, a 0% leakage deduction with contradictory justification, and unresolved fNRB methodology disputes leave meaningful over-crediting and permanence risk unaddressed.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠22 open corrective actions spanning fNRB recalculation, missing ER spreadsheets, incorrect breakdown-day accounting, and missing GPS coordinates indicate systemic data-quality problems in the MRV chain.
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% in the verification report but 5% in the PDD, and the justification flips between 'quantified' and 'deemed negligible' across documents — the 0% figure is not well-supported.
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated in any available document, leaving no quantified safeguard against reversal or over-crediting.
• ⚠The fNRB was calculated with an incorrect Tool 30 version and lacked transparent parameter evidence, and a forward action requires the project developer to recalculate it in-house.
• ⚠Ten contradictions across documents, including the additionality test type being listed as both 'combined' and 'investment' within the same PDD on the same date, raise questions about internal consistency.

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