Uganda Gender Responsive Safe Water Project

Audit Analysis

Project shows moderate integrity: additionality was confirmed by a VVB and a project-specific baseline is used, but key permanence and leakage safeguards (buffer pool, reversal history) are not documented. Transparency and documentation are limited by missing VVB identification, incomplete error reporting and an evidence-docs gap. Claim safety is middling because methodological choices (local field FNRB, 0% leakage deduction) are plausible but contradicted by earlier documents and lack full public traceability.

Project Description

In Lango, access to safe water is a major challenge; boreholes to access groundwater often fall into disrepair due to a lack of funding or training for their maintenance.  Having no safe water access forces communities to use unsafe sources such as streams to get their water - which has to be boiled to make it safe.  To boil the water, communities collect and burn firewood, which places greater pressure on dwindling forests and produces CO2 emissions.  It also creates a burden for women and children, who typically spend hours every day collecting firewood and water.  Even so, boiling water does not always guarantee that it is safe to drink, so waterborne diseases continue to afflict the community. The first ever   Gold Standard-certified gender responsive credits   have been created by the Lango Safe Water Project. ‘Gender Responsive’ projects take a pro-active approach to promoting and implementing gender equality practices in the community where the project is based. This gives purchasers of carbon credits the opportunity to support a project that proactively support gender equality. Project Impacts and Benefits This is the first project to be certified under the Gold Standard's Gender Responsive Framework which means that the project has been rigorously assessed to reduce gender inequality.  Since project implementation in 2019 the project has delivered the following impacts: 50,000 tonnes of CO2 emission reductions per year 40,000 individuals now enjoy clean water access, reducing the incidence of waterborne illness Nearly 4 hours saved per week for collecting water per household, which is a 19% improvement from the baseline, saving mostly women and young girls time Reduced school absenteeism due to less exposure to waterborne disease and less time spent collecting water Gender Equality Impacts: The local Water Resource Committee now has almost equal female to male representation, with 46% female to 54% male Reported

Red Flags

• ⚠ VVB name not provided in extracted records
• ⚠ Contradictory records on the FNRB method and prior non-addressing of leakage
• ⚠ No buffer pool percentage or reversal history reported

Credit Vintages

Cosa migliorerebbe questo punteggio

• Provide explicit buffer pool/reversal arrangements and full leakage assessment documentation (with methodology and data) and reconcile earlier contradictory records.

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