Water filter project in Dindori, Madhya Pradesh, India

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard water-filter avoidance project in Dindori, India, with VVB-confirmed additionality and no reversal events, but undermined by significant inter-document contradictions in the functional net replacement benefit (a 100× discrepancy), usage rate, and claimed ERR figures. The project delivered roughly 60% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the monitoring period, which is conservative, yet the data-quality issues and a project-specific baseline with a 0% leakage deduction limit confidence in the underlying claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠FNRB value differs by a factor of 100 between the verification report (89.2) and the monitoring report (0.892), and the method is described as 'local field' in one document and 'national default' in the other — a fundamental parameter inconsistency that undermines confidence in the emission-factor basis.
• ⚠Usage rate is reported as 100 in the verification report and PDD but as 1 in the monitoring report, a 100× discrepancy that could indicate a unit or decimal-place error but is unresolved in the extracted record.
• ⚠Two monitoring reports (dated 2025-02-05 and 2025-02-11) give different claimed ERR figures (5,745 vs 3,155); the verification report confirms 3,155, but the origin of the higher figure is unexplained.
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with a 'deemed negligible' justification, which is thin for a water-filter project where households could revert to unsafe water sources.
• ⚠Seven corrective action requests and four clarification requests were raised during verification, including a missing stakeholder-invitation record for category E participants.

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