Safe Water Programme – Nigeria - VPA 86

Audit Analysis

The Safe Water Programme in Nigeria is a Gold Standard energy-efficiency project with VVB-confirmed additionality and documented safeguards, but it is undermined by the absence of any verification report, a 0% leakage deduction with contradictory justifications across documents, and a factor-of-100 discrepancy in the FNRB value between the validation report and an unidentified source. The project-specific baseline and self-reported usage monitoring further weaken the evidentiary base, leaving the claimed 290,960 ERR unverified.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No verification report found in the extracted record; the claimed 290,960 ERR has no verified counterpart to confirm or challenge it.
• ⚠FNRB value appears as 82.3 in the validation report (2024-04-12) but as 0.823 in an unidentified document (2024-04-09) — a factor-of-100 discrepancy that strongly suggests a unit error and raises data-reliability concerns.
• ⚠Leakage justification is stated as 'quantified' in the PDD (2023-06-29) but as 'deemed negligible' in an unidentified document (2024-04-09), while the actual deduction is 0% — the two characterisations are inconsistent.
• ⚠Usage monitoring relies on self-reporting per the PDD, and the assumed 90% usage rate has no verified counterpart in any available document.

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