VPA 28 Coastal Kenya Borehole Rehabilitation Project

Audit Analysis

The VPA 28 Coastal Kenya Borehole Rehabilitation Project is a Gold Standard energy-efficiency project displacing firewood for water boiling, with a VVB-verified combined additionality test and a baseline that was appropriately reassessed in 2022 after the original 2017 data was found inadequate. However, the absence of a stated buffer pool, a 0% leakage deduction justified only as 'deemed negligible,' numerous material findings (including water-quality test failures and calculation errors), and a low extraction confidence level temper the overall quality. The project delivered roughly 114% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the monitoring period, which is within a reasonable range.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with only a 'deemed negligible' justification; for a project displacing firewood, households could substitute other solid fuels, yet no quantified leakage analysis is provided.
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated low, indicating at least one key document was poorly readable, which undermines confidence in the extracted data.
• ⚠Multiple water-quality test failures (bacteriological and chemical) were recorded for boreholes KIB 138, 194, 219, 224, 232, 234, 248, and 265 in 2024, raising questions about the reliability of the water supply the project depends on.
• ⚠Eight corrective action requests were raised, including the need to submit all survey records for 2023 and 2024 and to correct emission-reduction figures in design change memos, indicating documentation gaps at the time of verification.

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