Safe Water Programme – Kenya – VPA 47

Audit Analysis

The Safe Water Programme in Kenya has a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and no reported reversal events, but suffers from a 0% leakage deduction with no justification in the most recent verification report, absence of a buffer pool, and a project-specific baseline. Seventeen corrective actions and multiple inter-document contradictions (leakage treatment, FNRB method, ERR figures) indicate meaningful data-quality and reporting gaps that temper confidence in the claimed reductions.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with justification recorded as 'not addressed' in the September 2024 verification report, despite an earlier (April 2023) report stating it was 'deemed negligible' — the project type (safe water supply) carries inherent leakage risk if households revert to boiling water
• ⚠Seventeen corrective actions required by the VVB, including sampling design non-compliance with CDM Appendix 3, missing deviation documentation, and incomplete safeguard reporting
• ⚠FNRB method contradicted between the verification report (national default) and the monitoring report (local field), creating uncertainty about which emission factor underpins the credit calculation

Credit Vintages