Uganda Dairy Biogas Program

Audit Analysis

The Uganda Dairy Biogas Program is a Gold Standard biogas heat-displacement project with VVB-confirmed additionality and no reported reversals, but it carries moderate risk from a project-specific baseline, a 0% leakage deduction with inconsistent justifications across documents, and six corrective actions raised during verification. Transparency is limited by the absence of a verified ERR figure and reliance on annual surveys for usage monitoring. Overall, the project is functional but shows several documentation and methodological gaps that warrant caution.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Six corrective actions (CAR 01–06) and three compliance log entries were raised in the verification report, indicating multiple unresolved issues at the time of verification
• ⚠Leakage justification is inconsistent: the verification report (Sep 2025) characterises it as 'quantified' while the monitoring report (Aug 2025) calls it 'deemed negligible', yet the deduction is 0% in both cases
• ⚠Total ERR verified is not stated in any available document, leaving the claimed 6,531 tCO₂e for the six-month monitoring period unconfirmed by an independent figure
• ⚠Baseline is project-specific rather than jurisdictional, and no baseline reassessment date is recorded in the extracted record

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