Multi-Layer Household Water Filtration System in Kenya

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard household water filtration project in Kenya with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but undermined by a project-specific baseline with no recorded reassessment, self-reported usage monitoring, and multiple data inconsistencies across documents. The project delivered roughly 79% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the first monitoring period, and three corrective action requests highlight gaps in MRV documentation.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Reversal events are explicitly 'not addressed' in the verification report, leaving permanence risk unquantified even for an energy-efficiency project
• ⚠Three corrective action requests (CARs) were raised in the verification report, including an unspecified leakage-risk sampling method and missing FAR documentation from the first verification
• ⚠Usage monitoring relies on self-reporting rather than independent verification, and the monitoring report contains an internal inconsistency between a verified usage rate of 80% and 0.86
• ⚠The PDD (2022) records FPIC as not conducted, while the verification report (2024) confirms it was conducted — a material contradiction on a safeguards requirement

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