Safe Water Programme – Kenya – VPA 42

Audit Analysis

The Safe Water Programme in Kenya has a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and no material findings, but is undermined by a 0% leakage deduction with no justification, a project-specific baseline with no reassessment date, and 17 corrective actions flagged by the verifier. The exact match between claimed and verified ERR (1,023,164 tCO₂e) for an 11-month monitoring window within a 60-month crediting period raises serious over-crediting concerns.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Claimed and verified ERR are identical (1,023,164 tCO₂e) despite the monitoring period covering only 11 of 60 crediting months, implying the project delivered ~545% of the pro-rata expectation — a strong indicator of over-crediting or a data error
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% and the 2024 verification report records the justification as 'not addressed', while the earlier 2023 report called it 'deemed negligible' — the more recent and authoritative document is the less favourable one
• ⚠17 corrective actions were required by the VVB, including sampling-design non-compliance with CDM Appendix 3, missing deviation documentation, and incomplete safeguard reporting
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage, no baseline reassessment date, and no FPIC record were found in any available document

Credit Vintages