Darfur Efficient Cook-stove Project

Audit Analysis

The Darfur cook-stove project has a VVB-verified additionality assessment and a named verification body, but is undermined by a project-specific baseline, a 0% leakage deduction with contradictory justification, no stated buffer pool or permanence protection, and 13 outstanding corrective actions. The verified ERR for the 2020 monitoring period (46,709 tCO₂e) exceeds the pro-rata expectation from the ex-ante estimate, suggesting the credits are not over-claimed, but data reliability is weakened by significant discrepancies between the monitoring report and verification report.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠0% leakage deduction for a cook-stove project where displacement to traditional stoves is a well-known risk; justification is contradictory between the verification report ('quantified') and the monitoring report ('deemed negligible')
• ⚠No buffer pool or permanence mechanism stated in any available document; reversal events are explicitly 'not addressed'
• ⚠13 corrective actions remain outstanding, including incomplete sales records, unsupported investment-barrier justification, and misaligned monitoring-report sections
• ⚠Verified ERR in the monitoring report (301,580 tCO₂e) is roughly 6.5× the figure in the verification report (46,709 tCO₂e) for the same field, raising data-reliability concerns
• ⚠Safeguards documentation is contradictory: the verification report states safeguards are not mentioned, while the monitoring report states they are

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