Kwamisa/Other reserves community Forest Project

Audit Analysis

The Kwamisa Community Forest Project in Ghana has a VVB-confirmed combined additionality test and a 12% buffer pool with no reported reversals, but is undermined by a project-specific baseline, a 0% leakage deduction with contradictory justifications across documents, four outstanding corrective actions, and a 63% discrepancy in the lifetime ex-ante estimate between PDD versions. The project delivered only about 18% of the pro-rata expectation for the elapsed monitoring period, and the low extraction confidence across 13 documents limits assurance on data quality.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Lifetime ex-ante estimate jumped from 1,051,223 tCO2e (PDD, Jul 2022) to 1,711,571 tCO2e (PDD, Dec 2025) — a 63% increase with no documented explanation in the extracted record
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% yet the validation report calls the justification 'quantified' while the PDD calls it 'deemed negligible' — contradictory characterisations of the same treatment
• ⚠Four corrective actions remain open, including updating the grievance redress procedure, revising the barrier analysis, and submitting FPIC and project-start-date evidence
• ⚠The validation report flags a finding on 'investment barriers despite prior planting,' which raises a residual additionality question even though the VVB ultimately confirmed the test
• ⚠Min extraction confidence is rated low, meaning at least one key document was poorly readable and the structured record may be incomplete

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