GS1247 VPA 10 Improved Kitchen Regimes: Nyarugenge (Bugesera), Rwanda

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard cookstove project in Rwanda has a VVB-verified combined additionality test and no reversal events, but suffers from a severe gap between the PDD's assumed usage rate (90%) and the verified rate (23.3%), a 0% leakage deduction with only a 'deemed negligible' justification, and numerous open corrective actions. The ERR figures are consistent between claimed and verified values (14,700), suggesting credits are based on actual performance, but the project design assumptions and documentation gaps raise meaningful concerns about long-term reliability.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Usage rate assumed at 90% in the PDD versus 23.3% verified in the 2022 monitoring report — a gap of nearly 4× that signals a fundamentally flawed design assumption
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% justified only as 'deemed negligible' in the 2022 monitoring report, while the 2023 PDD references a 5% figure — inconsistent treatment of a material risk for a cookstove project where households may revert to traditional stoves
• ⚠Crediting period end date is not stated in the verification report (2014-01-20 to null), leaving the project's temporal scope undefined
• ⚠Five open Findings and Recommendations (FAR 01–05) remain unaddressed, including VPA-level SDG indicator evaluation and fNRB reporting
• ⚠CORSIA eligibility and CCP status are not stated in any available document, leaving dual-channel risk unassessed

Credit Vintages