Safe Water Programme – Nigeria - VPA 85

Audit Analysis

The Safe Water Programme in Nigeria has VVB-verified additionality (combined test) and documented safeguards including FPIC and a grievance mechanism, but suffers from a project-specific baseline, a thin 'deemed negligible' leakage justification with no buffer pool, and multiple contradictions across key parameters (FNRB method, monitoring approach, crediting period). The absence of verified ERR data and an unverified usage rate of 0.9 leaves over-crediting risk unassessed.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No buffer pool or permanence mechanism is stated in any available document, leaving reversal risk unaddressed for a 5-year crediting period
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% justified only as 'deemed negligible' with no quantified analysis, which is thin for a safe water project where households may revert to previous water sources
• ⚠Five contradictions across key parameters (FNRB value, FNRB method, additionality test type, monitoring method, crediting period) reduce confidence in the data integrity of the project record
• ⚠No verified ERR figure is available in the extracted record, making it impossible to assess whether the 290,960 claimed ERR is supported by monitoring data
• ⚠A corrective action (CAR#01) was issued to update the Safeguarding Principles Assessment, indicating the safeguards documentation was not fully compliant at validation

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