GS7591 VPA 9 Northern Uganda Safe Water Project

Audit Analysis

The Northern Uganda Safe Water Project is a fundamentally sound avoidance-type project (safe water and efficient cookstoves displacing firewood) with no reversal events and a reasonable zero-leakage justification. However, the project is burdened by an extensive catalogue of material findings, non-compliance with methodology monitoring requirements, suspended issuance, and multiple unresolved contradictions across documents — particularly on additionality verification status and crediting period dates — that significantly undermine confidence in the integrity and reliability of the credit claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Additionality verification status is directly contradicted: the 2023 verification report confirms VVB verification, while the 2024 validation report records it as not verified — the more recent document undermines the additionality claim
• ⚠Crediting period dates are inconsistent between the 2025 verification report (2020-02-25 to 2028-03-02) and the 2025 validation report (2025-02-05 to 2030-02-04), raising questions about which period is authoritative
• ⚠Project is in non-compliance with methodology requirements for parameter SDWS 23 (monitored quantity of safe water); deviation requests were not approved and issuance is suspended for periods of non-compliance
• ⚠Extensive list of material findings spanning multiple verification cycles, including incorrect baseline estimates, inconsistent parameter units, missing supporting documents, and geo-coordinate errors
• ⚠Water quality testing frequency was changed from quarterly to annually without adequate justification against methodology requirements

Credit Vintages

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