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Uganda Gender Responsive Safe Water Project

Operating in Uganda's Lango region, this CO2balance-developed project rehabilitates and maintains community boreholes that had fallen into disrepair due to a lack of funding or training. Its own stated distinction is being the first Gold Standard project to issue gender-responsive credits.

Lango region, UgandaBorehole rehabilitation and maintenanceGold Standard, Impact Registry Project #1542
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OperatorCO2balance UK Ltd
EcosystemBorehole rehabilitation and maintenance
StandardGold Standard, Impact Registry Project #1542
StatusActive
LocationLango region, Uganda
Overview

Inside the project

The project is built around a Water Resource Committee with 46% female representation.

The operator reports roughly 40,000 people gaining clean-water access and nearly four hours of weekly time saved per household on water collection, alongside a claimed drop in water-collection-linked domestic-violence incidents from 35% to zero.

40,000
People with clean-water access
46%
Female Water Resource Committee representation
50,000 tCO2e/yr
Annual emission reductions

Objectives

  • Rehabilitate and maintain community boreholes
  • Issue the first Gold Standard gender-responsive credits
  • Increase female representation on Water Resource Committees

Approach

  • Boreholes are rehabilitated and maintained through a community-run Water Resource Committee, funded through Gold Standard carbon credit sales.

Sources

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  1. marketplace.goldstandard.org ↗https://marketplace.goldstandard.org/products/co2balance-uganda-gender-responsive-safe-water-project

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