Info Report Check
Submission incomplete:
1: PoA location in Uganda
As per PoA-DD page 5 of 50 the latitude and longitude of the locations where the PoA will be implemented in Uganda are mentioned as follows;
-9° 25' 51.801"N 32° 57' 52.3692"E
-17° 9' 20.829"N 35° 10' 50.0766"E
-14° 55' 51.999" N 35° 57' 19.065" E
-13° 36' 16.8078" N 32° 42' 19.8684" E
Upon cross-checking this information, it is noted that these places are not located in the specified host country i.e. Uganda. The CME is requested to confirm the correct Geo-coordinates of the locations in Uganda where the CPAs under this PoA will be implemented.

2: Additionality demonstration
As mentioned under PoA-DD “section C. Demonstration of additionality of PoA” and confirmed by the DOE under section D.1.4 of its validation report, the additionality of PoA is demonstrated at PoA level using requirements under para 12 (b) of TOOL19, version-9 (EB101,Annex 15). Using this option, the CME shall demonstrate that the penetration rate of the project technology shall be equal to or less than 5 per cent of the technologies/measures (providing similar services) in the project activity region. However, the PoA-DD did not include demonstration related to penetration rate of the project technology in the PoA-DD. In absence of such demonstration as per the requirements of the TOOL19 it is not clear how the DOE validated that the additionality demonstration of the PoA is in-line with requirements of the TOOL19.

3: Calculation of fNRB values
A. Calculation of fNRB value for Uganda - The DOE needs to justify how it has validated whether there are any double couniting in reported values of non-domestic fuelwood consumption and domestic charcoal consumption for Uganda from the dataset from UN Statistics division.

B. Calculation of fNRB value for Malawi – It is noted from the PoA-DD appendix 4 and associate excel file ‘fnrb_Malawi.xlsx’ that the CME referred MAI value for Malawi from a report “Malawi's Green Gold: Challenges and Opportunities for Small and Medium forest enterprises in reducing poverty” published by International Institute for Environment and Development. In this context the DOE is requested to clarify following issues,
a. The CME did not use MAI value for plantations while calculating the weighted average MAI and also excluded forest plantations from the total extent of the forest. Please note TOOL30, requires determination of MAI values for different sub-categories of forest areas and other wooded land areas, therefore, the DOE should justify why the proposed value of 0.9216 m3/ha/a is representative of the total forest area and other wooded land areas in Malawi. Also, the DOE should explain why the forest plantations were not included from the total extent of the forest.
b. For the parameter P(forest), it is only stated in the above-mentioned excel file that “Forest reserve and remote areas in forest which are not accessible as per forest map”. The DOE need to substantiate how it has validated that 1.32 million ha for P(forest) is the area only within the forest area where the extraction of woody biomass is prohibited by law or are inaccessible. The DOE also need to further explain how it has validated the definition of “remote areas”.
c. The DOE needs to justify how it has validated whether there are any double couniting in reported values of non-domestic fuelwood consumption and domestic charcoal consumption for Malawi from the dataset from UN Statistics division.