Rwanda Kamonyi District Clean Water Project I

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard water-heating displacement project in Rwanda with VVB-confirmed additionality and no reversal events, but undermined by a project-specific baseline, absence of a stated buffer pool, and an unusually large set of corrective actions (over 30) that reveal systemic weaknesses in monitoring data quality, sampling design, and reporting consistency. The verified ERR (2,749 tCO₂e) represents roughly 93.5% of the claimed 2,940 tCO₂e for the 2024 monitoring period, indicating modest under-delivery rather than over-crediting.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Over 30 corrective actions issued by the VVB, spanning sampling design errors, non-accredited water-quality laboratories, inconsistent date formats, incorrect population sizes in random sampling, and multiple SDG reporting inconsistencies — indicating systemic MRV weaknesses
• ⚠FNRB value contradiction between the verification report (77) and the monitoring report (0.77), a factor-of-100 discrepancy that could materially affect credit quantities if a unit error is present
• ⚠Leakage justification shifted from 'deemed negligible' (Jan 2024) to 'quantified' (Jan 2025) between two verification reports, with the 0% deduction remaining unchanged

Credit Vintages