GS5047 VPA31 African Improved Cookstoves and Clean Water Programme: Nyagatare Safe Water Project XI

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard water project in Rwanda has VVB-confirmed additionality and a conservative FNRB, but is undermined by multiple material findings (unverified GPS locations, potential double-counting of users, survey attribution issues), a 32% discrepancy between claimed and monitored ERR figures, and a 0% leakage deduction whose justification is contradicted between the PDD and the monitoring report. Four corrective actions remain open, and the low extraction confidence across 23 documents limits assurance in the underlying data.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Potential double counting of users due to overlapping 1 km radii of nearby boreholes, flagged in the verification report material findings
• ⚠32% discrepancy between the verification report ERR (47,308 tCO₂e) and the monitoring report ERR (62,570 tCO₂e) for the same reporting cycle
• ⚠Borehole GPS locations could not be verified; some showed bare land or trees instead of infrastructure
• ⚠Four corrective actions remain open, including recollecting GPS coordinates and capping the usage rate at 90%
• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory: the PDD (2018) states 'deemed negligible' while the monitoring report (2023) states 'quantified', yet the deduction is 0%

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