GS5047 VPA25 African Improved Cookstoves and Clean Water Programme: Nyagatare Safe Water Project V
GS-1596 ↗ · current registry ID: GS7150
#1073of 1329 in Industrial#102of 139 in Rwanda#1515of 1801 in Gold Standard (GS)
Audit Analysis
This Gold Standard water project (Nyagatare Safe Water Project V, Rwanda) has VVB-confirmed additionality and a named verification body, but is undermined by multiple material findings including unverified borehole GPS locations, potential double-counting of users, and a 0% leakage deduction whose justification is contradicted between the PDD and the monitoring report. Four corrective actions remain outstanding, and the low extraction confidence in the underlying documents limits assurance on the overall data quality.
Red Flags
- Potential double counting of users due to overlapping 1 km radii of nearby boreholes (material finding in verification report)
- Borehole GPS locations could not be verified; some showed bare land or trees instead of infrastructure (material finding)
- Leakage justification contradicts itself: PDD (2018) states 'deemed negligible' while the monitoring report (2023) states 'quantified', yet the deduction is 0% in both cases
- ERR figures conflict: verification report (2022) records 47,308 tCO₂e while a separate monitoring report (2022) records 62,570 tCO₂e
- Surveys for the 2023 monitoring period had not been carried out as of the verification report date (21 Dec 2023)
Credit Vintages
| Issued | Retired | Available | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 9,066 | 9,066 | 0 | |
| 2020 | 4,683 | 4,677 | 6 | |
| 2021 | 11,421 | 7,357 | 4,064 | |
| 2022 | 9,500 | 9,311 | 189 | |
| 2023 | 3,437 | 0 | 3,437 | |
| 2024 | 1,924 | 0 | 1,924 | |
| Total | 40,031 | 30,411 | 9,620 |
Risk Indicators
VVB-confirmed combined test
mixed evidence / unresolved risk
0% deduction, contradictory justification
Project-specific, no reassessment date
FPIC and grievance documented but contradicted across reports
CORSIA and CCP status not stated
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