GS1264: Native Clean Water Programme West Africa- VPA (03) Santrokofi, Ghana

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard water-filter project in Ghana displacing charcoal-based water boiling, verified by SustainCERT. Additionality is VVB-confirmed and no reversals have occurred, but the project carries a project-specific baseline, a 0% leakage deduction, eight material findings (all corrected), and three pending corrective actions that collectively moderate confidence in the integrity and documentation quality.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Eight material findings in the verification report (template tampering, methodology version mismatch, vintage ER discrepancies, crediting-period misstatement, survey timing, CH4 factor error, Cj factor revision, Wb,y cap) indicate recurring data-quality issues across monitoring cycles.
• ⚠Three corrective actions remain open, including accounting for filter downtime and providing evidence of repairs before future claims, meaning the next monitoring period's claims are not yet fully secured.
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with a 'quantified' justification per the verification report, yet the monitoring report characterises it as 'deemed negligible' — an inconsistency that weakens the leakage treatment.
• ⚠Crediting period start date differs between the PDD (2017) and the verification report (2019), creating ambiguity about the true project start and the remaining crediting window.

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