Efficient and Clean Cooking Stoves For Households in Kenya

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove avoidance project in Kenya with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but weakened by a project-specific modeled baseline, an unaddressed permanence framework, a significant gap between assumed (90%) and verified (72.56%) usage rates, and numerous cross-document contradictions that reduce confidence in the data record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Usage rate assumed at 90% in the validation report but only 72.56% verified in the 2025 monitoring cycle, yet the full claimed ERR of 52,405 tCO2e was verified without reduction — the reconciliation between the lower verified usage and the unchanged credit volume is not explained in the extracted record.
• ⚠FNRB value shows a contradiction of 29 (2025 verification) versus 0.838933 (2024 verification), a factor-of-35 discrepancy that may reflect a unit error or a methodological change not clearly documented.
• ⚠Reversal events are marked as 'not addressed' and no buffer pool percentage is stated, leaving the permanence risk for displaced stoves unquantified.
• ⚠Thirteen cross-document contradictions were identified across leakage justification, ERR figures, FNRB method, FPIC status, safeguards, and benefit sharing, indicating inconsistent reporting over the project's lifetime.

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