Clean Cooking Project for Refugees , Host Communities and Other Marginalised Communities in Bangladesh

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard clean cooking project in Bangladesh serving refugees and marginalised communities, verified by Carbon Check (India) with no material findings. The project demonstrates solid safeguards (FPIC, grievance mechanism) and conservative crediting (national-default FNRB, quantified 5% leakage), but is held back by a project-specific baseline, unspecified additionality test type, four outstanding corrective actions, and a lack of buffer pool documentation.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Four corrective actions (CAR 01–03, CL 01) remain open per the verification report, indicating unresolved compliance issues
• ⚠Leakage deduction reported as 5% in the verification report but 95% in the monitoring report — a 19× discrepancy that, while likely a unit or interpretation error, undermines data reliability
• ⚠Additionality test type is not stated in any available document, limiting the ability to assess the robustness of the additionality claim
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is documented, leaving permanence risk unquantified even though reversal risk is low for an energy-efficiency project

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