Community Carbon Efficient Cooking Programme-VPA1

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove efficiency project in Uganda with VVB-confirmed additionality and no reversal events, but undermined by a very large volume of corrective actions and clarifications across multiple monitoring cycles, numerous cross-document contradictions (especially on leakage, ERR totals, and the fuel non-recovery baseline), and a low-confidence extraction that limits confidence in the underlying data. The project type carries inherent low permanence risk, yet the monitoring and documentation quality issues raise meaningful over-crediting concerns.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Thirteen cross-document contradictions identified, including a 24% gap in total ERR (961,642 vs 1,201,646 tCO₂e) and a leakage deduction that shifts from 0% to 5% between documents
• ⚠17+ open corrective actions and 40+ clarifications logged across multiple verification and validation cycles, indicating systemic monitoring and reporting quality problems
• ⚠Fuel non-recovery baseline (FNRB) value contradicts itself: 0.89 in the 2025 verification report versus 39 in the 2025 validation report — a unit or methodology inconsistency that cannot be reconciled from the available record
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence rated 'low', meaning at least one key document was poorly readable, reducing reliability of all derived figures
• ⚠Usage rate discrepancy flagged by the VVB: 94% measured in the field versus 90% used in the ER calculation, with a CAR still open to justify the difference

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