GS11935 GS11934 RVPA-30 Promoting sustainable use of biomass energy resources in targeted communities

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove project in Nepal with VVB-verified additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but undermined by a project-specific baseline, absence of a buffer pool, a contradictory FPIC record, and seven cross-document data inconsistencies (including unit errors and a 16% gap between the validation and verification ERR figures). The project is in its first monitoring year of a five-year crediting period, so the track record is still thin.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠FPIC status is contradictory: the earlier validation report (Nov 2023) records FPIC as conducted, while the later validation report (Sep 2024) records it as not conducted; the more recent document is privileged, leaving a safeguard gap.
• ⚠Seven fields show contradictions across documents, including a 16% discrepancy in the ERR figure (47,333 in the validation report vs 54,782 in the verification report) and unit-level errors (usage rate 1.0 vs 100; fNRB 0.9144 vs 91.44), indicating weak internal data quality control.
• ⚠The baseline is project-specific rather than jurisdictional, and the date of the last baseline reassessment is not stated in any available document.

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