GS1247 VPA 11 Improved Kitchen Regimes: Gatsibo District Borehole Project, Rwanda

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard VPA project (borehole rehabilitation in Gatsibo District, Rwanda) has a verified additionality assessment and no reported reversal events, but is undermined by eleven cross-document contradictions—including conflicting leakage deductions, fNRB values, and ERR figures—along with an extensive list of open corrective actions and forward action requests. The absence of a stated buffer pool and the project-specific baseline further weaken the integrity profile, while the methodology fit (thermal energy displacement applied to a borehole project) raises structural concerns.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Eleven contradictions across documents, including leakage deduction of 0% (2021 monitoring report) versus 5% (2023 PDD), and fNRB of 0.98 versus 0.85, indicating inconsistent quantification of emission reductions
• ⚠Verified ERR of 234,127 tCO2e (2019 monitoring report) versus claimed ERR of 29,460 tCO2e (2021 monitoring report) — a roughly 8-fold difference that, while from different periods, signals significant uncertainty in the ex-ante estimate
• ⚠Project name references a borehole project but the methodology is 'Technologies and Practices to Displace Decentralized Thermal Energy Consumption' (v.4.0), raising questions about methodological fit
• ⚠Dozens of open corrective actions and forward action requests remain unresolved, including SDG indicator evaluation, fNRB reporting at VPA level, and monitoring option justification

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