Native Hydraid Water Filtration in Kenya
GS-1593 ↗ · current registry ID: GS1124
#640of 1329 in Industrial#71of 157 in Kenya#973of 1801 in Gold Standard (GS)
Audit Analysis
The Native Hydraid Water Filtration project in Kenya is a long-running Gold Standard energy-efficiency project (crediting period 2013–2023) that over-delivers relative to its ex-ante estimate, but suffers from a very large number of corrective actions (over 30), multiple data contradictions across documents, a project-specific baseline with no stated reassessment date, and a significant gap between the assumed 100% usage rate and the verified 86.41%. The overall picture is of a project with a sound underlying concept but weak MRV discipline and documentation quality.
Red Flags
- Over 30 corrective actions required in the latest verification report, including untraceable ER calculation inputs, inconsistent ex-ante parameters (GWP, Wby, NCVb) versus the VPA-DD, and a usage rate that was not initially calculated correctly per age-group guidelines
- Usage rate assumed at 100% in the ex-ante estimate but verified at only 86.41%, a 13.6-percentage-point gap that undermines the reliability of the original credit estimate
- Leakage justification is contradictory: the verification report (Oct 2024) states it was 'quantified' while the monitoring report (Oct 2024) describes it as 'deemed negligible', yet the deduction is 0%
- Additionality test type is not stated in any document, even though the VVB confirmed additionality
Credit Vintages
| Issued | Retired | Available | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 4,246 | 84 | 4,162 | |
| 2014 | 10,000 | 7,407 | 2,593 | |
| 2015 | 10,800 | 42 | 10,758 | |
| 2016 | 9,888 | 0 | 9,888 | |
| 2017 | 7,673 | 152 | 7,521 | |
| 2018 | 7,258 | 145 | 7,113 | |
| 2019 | 6,748 | 860 | 5,888 | |
| 2020 | 6,683 | 132 | 6,551 | |
| 2021 | 5,809 | 16 | 5,793 | |
| 2022 | 7,348 | 0 | 7,348 | |
| 2023 | 1,145 | 0 | 1,145 | |
| Total | 77,598 | 8,838 | 68,760 |
Risk Indicators
VVB-confirmed but test type not stated
mixed evidence / unresolved risk
0% deduction with contradictory justification across documents
Project-specific baseline, no reassessment date recorded
Grievance mechanism and benefit sharing present; FPIC not stated
CORSIA and CCP statuses not stated in available documents
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