GS5047 VPA28 African Improved Cookstoves and Clean Water Programme: Nyagatare Safe Water Project VIII

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard energy-efficiency project in Rwanda (improved cookstoves and safe water) with VVB-confirmed additionality and a combined test, but hampered by a project-specific baseline, a 0% leakage deduction whose justification is contradicted across documents, and a significant project-name mismatch (VPA21 vs VPA28) that undermines confidence in the extracted data. The absence of a verified ERR figure and the fact that 2023 surveys had not been carried out at the time of verification raise material MRV concerns.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Project name in the header (VPA28, Nyagatare Safe Water Project VIII) does not match the project_name field in the extracted record (VPA21, Nyagatare Safe Water Project I, GS 6189), suggesting documents from a different sub-project may have been mixed into the evidence set.
• ⚠Two different total ERR claimed figures (147,220 and 62,570) appear in monitoring reports from the same year (2022), with no explanation for the discrepancy.
• ⚠The verification report notes that 2023 surveys had not been carried out at the time of verification, yet the monitoring period is 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31, creating a gap in the MRV chain.
• ⚠Leakage justification is stated as 'quantified' in the 2023 monitoring report but 'deemed negligible' in the 2018 PDD, with a 0% deduction in both cases.

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