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  "release": "IARPG-OPS-2",
  "version": "2.0.25-wip",
  "recheck_id": "country-context-volatile-recheck-kiribati-2026-07-23",
  "country": "Kiribati",
  "country_slug": "kiribati",
  "region": "Oceania",
  "status": "reviewed-with-limitations",
  "research_cutoff_utc": "2026-07-23T20:01:27Z",
  "selection_method": "One time-sensitive claim under each of the six World Systems lenses. The method applies the same claim count and lens coverage to every jurisdiction and does not rank countries or claims.",
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  "lens_coverage": [
    "authority",
    "coalitions",
    "regional-agency",
    "dependencies",
    "evidence-oversight",
    "crisis-recovery"
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      "recheck_item_id": "volatile-recheck-kiribati-01",
      "claim_id": "claim-kiribati-01",
      "lens_id": "authority",
      "lens_title": "Formal and practical authority, implementation, oversight, remedy, and legitimacy",
      "sample_rationale": "Selected as the jurisdiction's one time-sensitive claim under this World Systems lens, preserving an equal six-claim burden across all five jurisdictions.",
      "original_2_0_22_statement": "The Office of Te Beretitenti identifies Taneti Maamau as President of Kiribati at the research cutoff.",
      "original_proposal_url": "/country-context/proposals/kiribati.json",
      "audit_2_0_23_disposition": "corroborated",
      "audit_2_0_23_statement": "The Office of Te Beretitenti identifies Taneti Maamau as President of Kiribati at the research cutoff.",
      "audit_record_url": "/country-context/audits/kiribati.json",
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      "recheck_disposition": "remains-current",
      "current_statement": "The Office of Te Beretitenti identifies Taneti Maamau as President of Kiribati at the research cutoff.",
      "change_summary": "The authoritative or primary route remained current at the new cutoff; the bounded wording and all prior qualifications or corrections remain in force.",
      "rationale": "The reviewed current source continued to identify the institution, officeholder, membership, budget, oversight route, or policy record within the claim's bounded scope.",
      "confidence": "high",
      "source_record_id": "review-source-kiribati-01",
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      "correction_or_supersession_record_id": null,
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      "resolution_test": "An independent reviewer should reopen the cited evidence, test for later correction or supersession, assess wording and implementation limits, and document any locally informed disagreement before adjudication.",
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      "recheck_item_id": "volatile-recheck-kiribati-03",
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      "lens_id": "coalitions",
      "lens_title": "Domestic coalitions, institutional disagreement, continuity, and policy change",
      "sample_rationale": "Selected as the jurisdiction's one time-sensitive claim under this World Systems lens, preserving an equal six-claim burden across all five jurisdictions.",
      "original_2_0_22_statement": "The Presidency's history page records Taneti Maamau's current term from 2025 to date, following earlier terms, documenting continuity in the executive office without implying institutional unanimity.",
      "original_proposal_url": "/country-context/proposals/kiribati.json",
      "audit_2_0_23_disposition": "corroborated-with-qualification",
      "audit_2_0_23_statement": "The Presidency's history page labels Taneti Maamau's current period as '2025 - To date' and lists earlier terms. Because the parliamentary and presidential election cycle began in 2024, the page's year label should be treated as an official-site periodization that awaits reconciliation with the formal election, gazette, or inauguration record.",
      "audit_record_url": "/country-context/audits/kiribati.json",
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      "recheck_disposition": "needs-qualification",
      "current_statement": "The Presidency's history page labels Taneti Maamau's current period as '2025 - To date' and lists earlier terms. Because the parliamentary and presidential election cycle began in 2024, the page's year label should be treated as an official-site periodization that awaits reconciliation with the formal election, gazette, or inauguration record.",
      "change_summary": "The official Presidency history page still uses its own periodization; the year label remains qualified pending reconciliation with formal election, gazette, or inauguration records.",
      "rationale": "Formal publication does not by itself prove implementation, practical authority, equal access, outcomes, community acceptance, or population-wide opinion.",
      "confidence": "moderate",
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      "recheck_item_id": "volatile-recheck-kiribati-06",
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      "lens_id": "regional-agency",
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      "sample_rationale": "Selected as the jurisdiction's one time-sensitive claim under this World Systems lens, preserving an equal six-claim burden across all five jurisdictions.",
      "original_2_0_22_statement": "The Pacific Community maintains a Kiribati country stream with government, technical, and community cooperation records, showing issue-specific participation rather than a unitary alignment.",
      "original_proposal_url": "/country-context/proposals/kiribati.json",
      "audit_2_0_23_disposition": "corroborated",
      "audit_2_0_23_statement": "The Pacific Community maintains a Kiribati country stream with government, technical, and community cooperation records, showing issue-specific participation rather than a unitary alignment.",
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      "recheck_disposition": "remains-current",
      "current_statement": "The Pacific Community maintains a Kiribati country stream with government, technical, and community cooperation records, showing issue-specific participation rather than a unitary alignment.",
      "change_summary": "The authoritative or primary route remained current at the new cutoff; the bounded wording and all prior qualifications or corrections remain in force.",
      "rationale": "The reviewed current source continued to identify the institution, officeholder, membership, budget, oversight route, or policy record within the claim's bounded scope.",
      "confidence": "high",
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      "source_record_url": "/docs/source-files/current-country-review-workflow-2.0.25/kiribati/review-source-kiribati-06.json",
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      "recheck_item_id": "volatile-recheck-kiribati-07",
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      "lens_id": "dependencies",
      "lens_title": "Strategic dependencies, resilience, redundancy, substitutability, and affected communities",
      "sample_rationale": "Selected as the jurisdiction's one time-sensitive claim under this World Systems lens, preserving an equal six-claim burden across all five jurisdictions.",
      "original_2_0_22_statement": "The National Statistics Office publishes current population, trade, government-finance, survey, and community reports that provide official baselines while retaining known coverage and methodology limits.",
      "original_proposal_url": "/country-context/proposals/kiribati.json",
      "audit_2_0_23_disposition": "corroborated",
      "audit_2_0_23_statement": "The National Statistics Office publishes current population, trade, government-finance, survey, and community reports that provide official baselines while retaining known coverage and methodology limits.",
      "audit_record_url": "/country-context/audits/kiribati.json",
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      "recheck_disposition": "remains-current",
      "current_statement": "The National Statistics Office publishes current population, trade, government-finance, survey, and community reports that provide official baselines while retaining known coverage and methodology limits.",
      "change_summary": "The authoritative or primary route remained current at the new cutoff; the bounded wording and all prior qualifications or corrections remain in force.",
      "rationale": "The reviewed current source continued to identify the institution, officeholder, membership, budget, oversight route, or policy record within the claim's bounded scope.",
      "confidence": "high",
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      "correction_or_supersession_record_id": null,
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      "resolution_test": "An independent reviewer should reopen the cited evidence, test for later correction or supersession, assess wording and implementation limits, and document any locally informed disagreement before adjudication.",
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      "recheck_item_id": "volatile-recheck-kiribati-10",
      "claim_id": "claim-kiribati-10",
      "lens_id": "evidence-oversight",
      "lens_title": "Evidence reliability, credibility, confidence, disagreement, correction, and oversight",
      "sample_rationale": "Selected as the jurisdiction's one time-sensitive claim under this World Systems lens, preserving an equal six-claim burden across all five jurisdictions.",
      "original_2_0_22_statement": "The Public Service Office publishes integrity and corruption-reporting contacts, while this review did not establish a comprehensive national human-rights institution or equivalent remedy architecture from current primary sources.",
      "original_proposal_url": "/country-context/proposals/kiribati.json",
      "audit_2_0_23_disposition": "corroborated-with-qualification",
      "audit_2_0_23_statement": "The Public Service Office publishes integrity, corruption-reporting, whistleblowing, and customer-complaint channels. The audit did not locate current primary evidence establishing a comprehensive national human-rights institution; that is a bounded search result, not proof that no equivalent remedy body or mandate exists.",
      "audit_record_url": "/country-context/audits/kiribati.json",
      "audit_source_record_url": "/docs/source-files/current-country-evidence-audit-2.0.23/kiribati/audit-source-kiribati-10.json",
      "recheck_disposition": "needs-qualification",
      "current_statement": "The Public Service Office publishes integrity, corruption-reporting, whistleblowing, and customer-complaint channels. The audit did not locate current primary evidence establishing a comprehensive national human-rights institution; that is a bounded search result, not proof that no equivalent remedy body or mandate exists.",
      "change_summary": "Integrity and complaint channels remain visible, while the absence of a located comprehensive national human-rights institution remains a bounded search result, not proof of nonexistence.",
      "rationale": "Formal publication does not by itself prove implementation, practical authority, equal access, outcomes, community acceptance, or population-wide opinion.",
      "confidence": "moderate",
      "source_record_id": "review-source-kiribati-10",
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      "resolution_test": "An independent reviewer should reopen the cited evidence, test for later correction or supersession, assess wording and implementation limits, and document any locally informed disagreement before adjudication.",
      "reviewer_evidence_state": "not-supplied",
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      "recheck_item_id": "volatile-recheck-kiribati-12",
      "claim_id": "claim-kiribati-12",
      "lens_id": "crisis-recovery",
      "lens_title": "Crisis cascades, institutional response, unequal consequences, recovery, and uncertainty",
      "sample_rationale": "Selected as the jurisdiction's one time-sensitive claim under this World Systems lens, preserving an equal six-claim burden across all five jurisdictions.",
      "original_2_0_22_statement": "A Pacific Community climate-resilient building-code project reports stakeholder consultation and an affordability objective, showing that technical resilience choices include implementation and distributional questions.",
      "original_proposal_url": "/country-context/proposals/kiribati.json",
      "audit_2_0_23_disposition": "correction-required",
      "audit_2_0_23_statement": "SPC/NDC Hub material documents a 2024 consultation on climate-resilient building-code recommendations. The official Kiribati Building Code 2024 records a broader consultation process involving government, civil society, community, disability, youth, and industry stakeholders. Cost, affordability, compliance, and distributional outcomes remain implementation questions; this audit did not verify an affordability objective as a completed project outcome.",
      "audit_record_url": "/country-context/audits/kiribati.json",
      "audit_source_record_url": "/docs/source-files/current-country-evidence-audit-2.0.23/kiribati/audit-source-kiribati-12.json",
      "recheck_disposition": "needs-qualification",
      "current_statement": "The Kiribati Building Code 2024 records consultation involving government, civil society, community, disability, youth, and industry stakeholders and describes requirements intended to be cost-effective and not needlessly onerous. That design intent is not evidence that affordability, compliance, financing, outer-island delivery, or distributional outcomes were achieved.",
      "change_summary": "The 2.0.23 correction remains active. The code's stated cost-effectiveness intent is retained only as a design objective, not an observed affordability outcome.",
      "rationale": "The official code documents consultation and design intent but does not establish completed affordability or equitable implementation outcomes.",
      "confidence": "moderate",
      "source_record_id": "review-source-kiribati-12",
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      "correction_or_supersession_record_id": "audit-correction-kiribati-12",
      "effective_or_reference_date": null,
      "resolution_test": "Review implementation law, cost studies, subsidy or financing measures, contractor and inspector capacity, outer-island delivery, disability access, household affordability, and participant feedback with locally informed reviewers.",
      "reviewer_evidence_state": "not-supplied",
      "editorial_adjudication_state": "not-performed",
      "publication_effect": "retain-with-qualification"
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    "needs-qualification": 3,
    "requires-correction": 0,
    "superseded": 0,
    "unresolved": 0
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    "state": "blocked-pending-human-and-locally-informed-review",
    "blockers": [
      "Independent human review has not been supplied or verified.",
      "Locally informed or affected-community review has not been supplied or verified.",
      "Reviewer identity or consented anonymity choice, qualifications, local relationship, language competence, conflict disclosure, and funding disclosure remain unanswered.",
      "Consent to participate, quote, attribute, retain, and publish remains unanswered.",
      "Claim-level reviewer responses and editorial adjudication remain absent.",
      "One reviewer or one community account could not establish representative public opinion or jurisdiction-wide acceptance even if later supplied."
    ],
    "warning": "A source recheck can establish traceable current support or supersession at the cutoff; it cannot establish human endorsement, local acceptance, representative public opinion, legal validity, political neutrality, or publication approval."
  }
}