Solar Water Filtration Units for Rural Areas in Coastal Bangladesh

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard-certified solar water filtration project in coastal Bangladesh with VVB-confirmed additionality and no reported reversals, but weakened by a project-specific baseline, a 0% leakage deduction with contradictory justification across documents, an outstanding corrective action, and the absence of a stated buffer pool. The monitoring data for Q4 2024 shows the project slightly exceeding its pro-rata ex-ante expectation, and usage rates align closely with assumptions, but the verified ERR figure is not available in the extracted record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% is justified as 'not addressed' in the verification report (Jan 2025) but 'deemed negligible' in the monitoring report (Jan 2025) — the higher-priority VVB document does not provide a substantive justification
• ⚠Corrective action CAR 01 was raised in the verification report and remains an open item
• ⚠FPIC status is contradictory: the PDD (Jan 2023) confirms it was conducted, but an earlier appendix (Feb 2022) records it as not conducted, raising questions about the timing and completeness of free, prior, and informed consent

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