Revegetation with fruit trees in North Manica Province, Mozambique

Audit Analysis

A VCS ALM fruit-tree revegetation project in Mozambique with a VVB-verified combined additionality test, a 22% buffer pool, and no reported reversal events. However, the project-specific baseline, a 0% leakage deduction justified only as 'deemed negligible,' and significant contradictions across documents regarding FPIC, safeguards, and grievance mechanisms weaken confidence in the integrity and documentation quality. Verified emissions reductions fall below claimed values for the monitoring period, which is conservative but reflects the early growth stage of the trees.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠FPIC status is contradictory: the PDD (2020) states FPIC was conducted, but the verification report (2020) records it as not conducted — the independent VVB assessment is privileged, raising a serious safeguards concern
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with only a 'deemed negligible' justification and no quantified analysis, which is thin for a land-use project in a developing country where displaced agriculture is a plausible leakage pathway
• ⚠Eight contradictions were identified across project documents, including conflicting statements on safeguards, grievance mechanism, benefit sharing, and buffer pool percentage (13% in PDD vs 22% in the 2025 monitoring report), indicating inconsistent record-keeping

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