Review requirements
What must be reviewed before a project design or a claim is accepted, under which mandate, by how many reviewers, with which independence rules, and which knowledge and skills reputation rules govern who may take the seat.
Validation of a project design
Every project design is validated before it becomes a registered project version. The reviewer checks the declared service areas, parties by role, service frequency, material categories, claimed streams, eligibility criteria and monitoring plan against the data requirement; checks that every parameter the standard leaves to the project is set in the design and nowhere else (ADR-0010); and samples the records the design rests on (enumeration, enrolment, container deployment), none of which is reviewed one by one. Required domains are derived from the design’s applied methodologies, each governed by a validation-review KSR rule. Seat open to any qualified reviewer who is not the design’s author.
| governed by KSR rule | Take a validation review seat (community engagement and consent); Take a validation review seat (data and evidence quality); Take a validation review seat (household waste service operations); Take a validation review seat (informal-sector inclusion and labour); Take a validation review seat (landfill and residual disposal); Take a validation review seat (material recovery and recyclate markets); Take a validation review seat (organic waste treatment); Take a validation review seat (source separation and behaviour change); Take a validation review seat (survey and monitoring design); Take a validation review seat (waste characterisation and sampling) |
| knowledge domains from applied methodology | yes |
| minimum reviewers | 1 |
| review mandate | Validation |
| reviewed artifact type | project-design |
| reviewer must not be author | yes |
| seat policy | Open to any KSR-qualified reviewer |
Verification of a diversion claim
Every diversion a monitoring period claims is verified before it enters an indicator. The reviewer checks that diversion is claimed only for mass with a recorded recovery destination, that uncategorised mass is never counted toward diversion and blank weights are absent and not zero (ADR-0007, ADR-0008), and that offtake, treatment and disposal records reconcile with facility weighings. Required domains are derived from the applied methodology and the destinations claimed, each governed by a verification-review KSR rule; the material recovery rule carries the higher threshold. Seat open to any qualified reviewer who is not the observer of a contributing record.
| governed by KSR rule | Take a verification review seat (data and evidence quality); Take a verification review seat (landfill and residual disposal); Take a verification review seat (material recovery and recyclate markets); Take a verification review seat (organic waste treatment); Take a verification review seat (waste characterisation and sampling) |
| knowledge domains from applied methodology | yes |
| minimum reviewers | 1 |
| review mandate | Verification |
| reviewed artifact type | diversion-claim |
| reviewer must not be observer | yes |
| seat policy | Open to any KSR-qualified reviewer |
Verification of a separation quality claim
The separation quality and contamination results a monitoring period reports are verified against its service point evaluations and contamination audits and the monitoring plan’s sampling frame. The reviewer checks that an empty or misused container is a container state and not a rating, and that the sample supports the stated denominator. Contamination audits are verified in waste characterisation and sampling at the normal threshold; the higher material recovery threshold governs diversion only. The reviewer is not the evaluator or auditor of any contributing record and did not collect the round concerned (ADR-0004). Seat open to any qualified reviewer.
| governed by KSR rule | Take a verification review seat (data and evidence quality); Take a verification review seat (source separation and behaviour change); Take a verification review seat (survey and monitoring design); Take a verification review seat (waste characterisation and sampling) |
| knowledge domains from applied methodology | yes |
| minimum reviewers | 1 |
| review mandate | Verification |
| reviewed artifact type | separation-quality-claim |
| reviewer must not be observer | yes |
| reviewer must not have collected | yes |
| seat policy | Open to any KSR-qualified reviewer |
Verification of a service delivery claim
The service statuses and plan compliance a monitoring period reports are verified against its collection rounds, service outcomes, scheduled visits and evidence before they become approved claims. The reviewer checks that statuses are derived and not captured, that unscheduled observations are not counted toward plan compliance, and that restatements and withdrawals carry reasons. The reviewer is not the observer of any contributing record and did not collect a contributing round (ADR-0004). Seat open to any qualified reviewer.
| governed by KSR rule | Take a verification review seat (community engagement and consent); Take a verification review seat (data and evidence quality); Take a verification review seat (field team supervision); Take a verification review seat (household waste service operations); Take a verification review seat (informal-sector inclusion and labour); Take a verification review seat (survey and monitoring design) |
| knowledge domains from applied methodology | yes |
| minimum reviewers | 1 |
| review mandate | Verification |
| reviewed artifact type | service-delivery-claim |
| reviewer must not be observer | yes |
| reviewer must not have collected | yes |
| seat policy | Open to any KSR-qualified reviewer |