Enhancing livelihood of rural communities in India through improved cook stoves by Shri Maa

Audit Analysis

A VCS cook-stove project in India with a VVB-verified investment additionality test and a 5% leakage deduction, but hampered by a project-specific baseline, absent buffer pool, identical claimed and verified ERR figures that raise monitoring questions, and low extraction confidence across the document set. Several material findings and corrective actions remain open, indicating the project is still maturing its MRV and beneficiary-management systems.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Total ERR claimed and verified are identical (497,831 tCO₂e), suggesting the 'verified' figure may simply be the ex-ante estimate carried forward rather than an independently monitored result.
• ⚠Two corrective actions (FAR 01 and FAR 02) remain open, requiring removal of LPG-primary households and exclusion of baseline-stove usage from ER calculations — both go to the core validity of the credit claim.
• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory across validation reports (one states 'quantified', the later one states 'not addressed'), leaving the basis for the 5% deduction unclear.
• ⚠min_extraction_confidence is rated 'low', meaning at least one key document was poorly readable, reducing confidence in the extracted data.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.