Municipal Waste Composting in Dschang, Cameroon

Integrity

The verification report from 2023-09-21 confirms additionality through a barrier test and says SustainCERT served as the VVB, which is a strong positive. The project also uses AMS.III-F methodology version 12 and reports a leakage deduction of 0% with leakage deemed negligible, but reversal handling is not addressed and no buffer pool percentage is available. The absence of a baseline reassessment date further limits confidence in long-term integrity.

Transparency

Transparency is moderate because the record identifies the verifier, the registry, and a clear monitoring period from 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31. However, the extracted facts do not include verified ERR totals, a usage-monitoring method, or any quantified usage-rate evidence, which makes it hard to independently assess reported performance. The medium extraction confidence also suggests at least one key source was not fully legible.

Claim Safety

Claim safety is mixed. The VVB-confirmed additionality and negligible leakage claim support the project, but the project is marked CORSIA-eligible and CCP status is not stated, so dual-market claim risk is not fully resolved. The lack of verified usage-rate data and the missing baseline reassessment date also leave some over-crediting risk unresolved.

Documentation

Documentation is reasonably broad, with evidence drawn from a verification report, monitoring report, PDD, and appendix, and 20 documents were used. Still, the extraction confidence is only medium, and several important items are not stated in available documents, including buffer pool coverage, verified usage rates, and ERR totals. The crediting period is also inconsistent across documents, which reduces documentation reliability.

Overall

Overall, the project looks better than average on core additionality, but the evidence base is not clean enough for a high-confidence score. I privileged the more recent verification report over the older PDD where the crediting period differs, because it is later and more specific to the verified period; I also privileged the newer monitoring-report statement that leakage is negligible over the older report that said leakage was not addressed. The contradictions on safeguards and benefit sharing are material reliability issues, so the scores are held down despite some positive project attributes.