DelAgua Improved Cookstove Grouped Project

Audit Analysis

The DelAgua cookstove project in Rwanda has VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but is undermined by ten cross-document contradictions—most critically, four safeguard-related fields (FPIC, grievance mechanism, benefit sharing, safeguards) that shifted from absent to present between the December 2025 and February 2026 verification reports, indicating the project was initially non-compliant on social safeguards. The project-specific baseline, absence of buffer-pool information, and three outstanding corrective actions further erode confidence in the integrity and documentation of the credit.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Four safeguard-related fields (FPIC, grievance mechanism, benefit sharing, safeguards) were recorded as absent in the December 2025 verification report and present in the February 2026 report, indicating the project was initially non-compliant on social safeguards and only remediated under corrective-action pressure
• ⚠Ten contradictions across documents, including a 2.6× discrepancy in verified ERR (722,111 vs 1,911,382 tCO₂e) and a 26% swing in the FNRB (0.8872 → 0.6565), raise serious data-reliability concerns
• ⚠Three corrective actions remain open, including the requirement to perform local stakeholder consultation and update the PDD and monitoring report—directly linked to the FPIC gap
• ⚠Buffer-pool percentage and reversal-event history are not stated in any available document, leaving permanence risk unquantified for a cookstove project where stove failure and abandonment are realistic reversal pathways

Credit Vintages