Fair. Inclusive. Transparent. - FIT carbon project in Ethiopia to provide clean drinking water in rural communities

The Project Activity is a voluntary initiative to improve the livelihood of target communities in various regions in Ethiopia by means of giving access to Improved Water Sources. The project provides access to clean drinking water for rural households and directly replaces non-renewable biomass (fuelwood) burning at baseline that would have been otherwise used to boil water at baseline which is mainly sourced from the unimproved or unhealthy water sources under the baseline scenario. In line with the Gold Standard definition, an improved drinking-water source is one that by the nature of its construction and design adequately protects the source from outside contamination, in particular by faecal matter. The underlying assumption is that improved sources are more likely to supply safe drinking-water than unimproved sources. In this regard, borehole and tube wells are considered as the project scenario under ‘Improved Water Sources’. This falls under the category of “Eligible community water supply technologies (CWS)” and thus the project creates direct impacts into the basic need of the rural lives through piped water into dwellings sourced from tubewell and/or borehole.

Project ID

GS11979

Registry

Gold Standard

Type

Clean Water · Household & Community

Removal or reduction

Reduction

Methodology

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Developer

Fair Climate Fund India Private Limited · 1 project

Country

Ethiopia

First vintage

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Crediting period

2021-11-06 to 2026-11-05

Estimated yearly credits

7,528

Scale

Small Scale · Standalone

Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 5: Gender Equality · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Data from

Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry

The registry gives Ethiopia as the location, so this project is not drawn on the map. It is counted in the country totals.