Changing Lives via Improved Cooking Initiatives – Philippines

Audit Analysis

A VCS cookstove project in the Philippines with VVB-confirmed additionality, a quantified 5% leakage deduction, and no permanence risk (non-AFOLU). However, the project delivered only about 7% of its pro-rata PDD expectation in the first monitoring period, and several contradictions between the PDD and verification report (FPIC status, additionality test type, benefit sharing) reduce confidence in the project's documentation consistency.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The PDD lifetime estimate of 25,444,563 tCO2e implies a pro-rata expectation of roughly 6.97 million tCO2e for the first 23 months, yet only 488,799 tCO2e were verified — a delivery rate of approximately 7% of expectation, indicating a major overestimation in the original project design.
• ⚠The verification report lists 12 material findings, including a discrepancy in job-creation figures between the monitoring report and project declarations, and a clarification needed on the sampling frame and stratified random approach.
• ⚠FPIC status is contradictory: the PDD (June 2023) records it as not conducted, while the verification report (April 2025) records it as conducted. The more recent verification report is privileged, but the inconsistency raises questions about the robustness of the free, prior, and informed consent process.
• ⚠CORSIA eligibility and CCP status are not stated in any available document, leaving the double-claiming risk unassessed.

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