Mozambique Safe Water Project

Audit Analysis

This is a Gold Standard certified avoidance project with VVB-confirmed additionality and a recent baseline reassessment, which supports moderate integrity. However, several reliability issues remain: key leakage and reversal treatment is not clearly explained, the extraction confidence is low, and there are multiple contradictions across documents that weaken confidence in the claimed reductions.

Project Description

By rehabilitating and installing critical water infrastructure within communities and committing to ensure that it is maintained and tested for water quality over the project lifetime, the project reduces the risk of water borne illnesses and the need to boil water for purification, which exposes households to hazardous air pollution. This saves thousands of tonnes of firewood per year and reduces CO2 emissions. By implementing a WASH campaign and training, the project also improves hygiene and sanitation practices within the communities. As the burden for collecting water and firewood for purification falls disproportionately on women and children, by installing and rehabilitating boreholes, the project reduces the time poverty of women and children and allows them to spend the time saved on other activities. Provision of safe clean water, especially in rural areas Positively impacts thousands of people in the project area, especially women and children Reduction of firewood Reduced time spent on collecting wood and water Reduction in the risk of waterborne illness More project information is available in the Gold Standard Impact Registry . N.B.  Individual vintages cannot be selected for purchase. Purchases will include credits from the vintage range stated.

Red Flags

• ⚠ Leakage is deducted at 5% but the justification is recorded as not addressed in the extracted validation report.
• ⚠ The record contains several contradictions, including different values for leakage treatment, usage rates, reversal status, and the crediting period.

Credit Vintages

Cosa migliorerebbe questo punteggio

• Provide a clean, reconciled document trail explaining the leakage deduction, reversal treatment, and the final crediting period.
• Publish a clearer monitoring package with consistent usage-rate assumptions, verified values, and a specific evidence list tied to each claim.

Questi suggerimenti indicano quali prove pubbliche aggiuntive potrebbero migliorare il livello di confidenza di questa valutazione. Non garantiscono un punteggio futuro più alto.