GS1366 VPA 9 Kilifi Borehole Rehabilitation Project

Integrity

The PDD states that additionality was verified by the VVB, which is a meaningful positive signal. On the other hand, reversal events are marked as not addressed and no buffer pool percentage is available, so permanence controls are weakly evidenced. The baseline is project-based, and the record does not show a recent reassessment, which limits robustness.

Transparency

The monitoring period, methodology version, and annual survey usage monitoring method are clearly stated in the PDD. But the verifier name is not found, and both claimed and verified ER totals are missing from the extracted record, limiting auditability. CORSIA eligibility and CCP status are also not stated, which leaves registry and market-claim transparency incomplete.

Claim Safety

Leakage appears better handled than many projects because the record gives a quantified leakage treatment with a 0% deduction. Still, the baseline is project-specific, and the usage rate assumption of 80% is materially lower than the verified 100% usage rate, which raises questions about how conservative the ex ante assumptions were. The absence of CORSIA/CCP status also leaves some double-claim risk unresolved.

Documentation

The extracted record covers five documents, includes FPIC, grievance mechanisms, and benefit sharing, and reports no material findings or corrective actions. However, extraction confidence is only medium, so at least one key document may have been difficult to read. The contradiction on the crediting period, together with the benefit-sharing discrepancy, indicates the documentation set is not fully consistent.

Overall

I privileged the 2020-10-14 PDD for the crediting-period and leakage/baseline details because it is the most recent document in the extracted record, but I still downgraded confidence because the record explicitly contains contradictions. The benefit-sharing contradiction is material because one earlier document reportedly said it was absent while a later one says it is described; I treated the later, more complete PDD as controlling. The crediting-period contradiction also matters because it suggests either superseded project documentation or inconsistent extraction, so the scores are reduced for reliability risk.