CPA 4 Improved Cook Stoves programme for Rwanda

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard cook-stove CPA in Rwanda has VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but is undermined by a reversal-risk gap (no buffer pool, reversals not addressed), ten cross-document contradictions, a low-confidence extraction, and persistent data-quality issues (Excel database, non-monitored CPAs, inconsistent FNRB values). The project is CORSIA-eligible with CCP status unstated, creating a dual-channel risk that is not fully resolved.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Reversal events are explicitly 'not addressed' and no buffer pool percentage is stated in any available document, leaving permanence risk unquantified for a project where stove failure or household reversion is a realistic pathway.
• ⚠Ten contradictions across documents, including a 27% swing in the net fuel reduction benefit (0.77 in the validation report vs 0.98 in the verification report) and a direct FPIC contradiction within the same monitoring report (both true and false recorded on 2020-10-14).
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated low, meaning at least one key document was poorly readable, reducing reliability of the entire evidence base.
• ⚠Four CPAs (0002, 0003, 0004, 0007) were not monitored and one CPA (GS 2563) was excluded for prior sampling non-compliance, indicating incomplete programme-level coverage.
• ⚠CORSIA eligibility is confirmed while CCP status is not stated, leaving the dual-channel / double-claim risk unresolved.

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