GS5658 VPA 8: The Community Safe Water (Madagascar)
GS-1514 ↗ · current registry ID: GS7090
#1120of 1329 in Industrial#17of 26 in Madagascar#1571of 1801 in Gold Standard (GS)
Audit Analysis
This Gold Standard community water project in Madagascar has a named VVB (SustainCERT) and verified ERRs matching claimed values, but is undermined by an extensive list of material findings and corrective actions, a non-functional grievance mechanism, a missing FPIC process, and an internal contradiction in the additionality verification within the same report. The project-specific baseline, 0% leakage deduction with inconsistent justification, and absence of a lifetime ex-ante estimate limit confidence in the credit claims.
Red Flags
- Additionality verification is internally contradictory: the same verification report (22 Aug 2023) records both a confirmed and a non-confirmed additionality assessment, leaving the additionality claim unresolved.
- The verification report lists 20+ material findings including non-functional grievance mechanism, no functional water management committee, safety hazards (missing ladder at Ambalavelona), water quality problems (brownish water at Ankatafa), and inconsistent end-user numbers across MR sections.
- FPIC was not conducted (explicitly recorded as false), and the grievance mechanism, while nominally present, was found non-operational with no grievance book or record of solutions.
- Leakage justification is contradictory: the 2023 monitoring report states 'deemed negligible' while the 2022 monitoring report states 'quantified', with a 0% deduction applied in both cases.
- GWP values for CH4 and N2O were not updated to AR5 standards for post-2021 vintages, as flagged in the verification report.
Credit Vintages Exhausted
| Issued | Retired | Available | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 157 | 157 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 4,008 | 4,008 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 0 | |
| 2020 | 8,365 | 8,365 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 8,686 | 8,686 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 8,818 | 8,818 | 0 | |
| Total | 40,034 | 40,034 | 0 |
Risk Indicators
VVB-confirmed but internally contradicted in same report
Avoidance project, no reversal events recorded
0% deduction, justification inconsistent across reports
Project-specific baseline, no reassessment date recorded
No FPIC, non-functional grievance mechanism, no functional committee
CORSIA and CCP status not stated in available documents
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