GS1247 VPA 79 Lango Safe Water Project

Audit Analysis

The Lango Safe Water Project (Uganda, Gold Standard) is a borehole-based safe water project verified by SustainCERT with a combined additionality test and local-field fNRB, but it is undermined by a very large number of corrective actions, twelve cross-document contradictions, a 0% leakage deduction whose justification is internally inconsistent, and a 13.6-fold discrepancy between the PDD and monitoring-report emission-reduction figures. The project is in a current crediting period (2025–2030) with no reported reversals, yet the sheer volume of unresolved data-quality and methodological issues limits confidence in the integrity and claim safety of the credits.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The PDD (June 2023) reports a claimed ERR of 4,403 tCO₂e while the monitoring report (Feb 2024) reports 60,139 tCO₂e for the 2023–2024 period — a 13.6-fold gap that is not explained in the extracted record.
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% in the verification report, yet the justification is labelled 'quantified' in that same report while the monitoring report calls it 'deemed negligible' — a 0% deduction with a 'quantified' label is internally contradictory.
• ⚠Over 40 corrective actions and forward-action requests were raised across the verification and monitoring cycles, covering missing ER calculations, inconsistent borehole failure-day data, incorrect SDG values, and unresolved additionality evidence for retroactive VPAs.
• ⚠The sector classification is listed as 'industrial' and the credit type as 'Energy Efficiency – Domestic', yet the project is a safe-water borehole scheme; the CARs also reference cookstove methodology updates, suggesting possible PoA-level scope confusion or data-extraction error.

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