Safe Water Programme – Nigeria - VPA 96

Audit Analysis

The Safe Water Programme in Nigeria is a Gold Standard energy-efficiency project with VVB-confirmed additionality and a locally measured fNRB, but it lacks a verification report, has no buffer pool, and carries six open corrective actions from validation. The absence of verified emission-reduction data and the thin leakage justification (0% deemed negligible) limit confidence in the claimed 290,960 tCO₂e lifetime figure. Overall, the project shows a reasonable design but insufficient post-validation evidence to confirm delivery.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No verification report found in the extracted record; total verified ERR is unavailable, so the claimed 290,960 tCO₂e lifetime figure cannot be independently confirmed.
• ⚠Six corrective actions remain open from the 2024 validation, including clarification of baseline data sources, the fNRB tool version used, and the safeguarding assessment.
• ⚠Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) was not conducted, despite the project distributing water infrastructure to communities in Nigeria.
• ⚠The monitoring period (Jul 2022 – Dec 2023) predates the crediting period (Aug 2024 – Oct 2029), creating ambiguity about which period the monitoring data covers.

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