GS1247 VPA 22 Improved Kitchen Regimes: Gatsibo District Borehole Project, Rwanda

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard cookstove and borehole project in Rwanda has a verified additionality assessment and no reported reversal events, but is undermined by a very large number of unresolved material findings and corrective actions, multiple contradictions in key quantification parameters (usage rate, fNRB, leakage), and the absence of a stated buffer pool. The verified ERR figure exceeding the claimed ERR figure raises over-crediting concerns, and the project-specific baseline with inconsistent leakage treatment limits confidence in the claimed reductions.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Verified ERR (234,127 tCO₂e) exceeds the claimed ERR (118,203 tCO₂e) from the 2020 monitoring report, signalling a potential over-crediting or period-mismatch issue
• ⚠Usage rate assumption contradicts itself across documents: 90% in the 2025 PDD versus 15% in a 2022 appendix — a 75-percentage-point gap that cannot be reconciled without clarification
• ⚠Five Forward Action Requests (FAR 01–05) remain open, covering SDG indicator alignment, fNRB reporting, and monitoring justification at the VPA level
• ⚠Leakage treatment is inconsistent: the 2020 monitoring report applies a 0% deduction with a 'deemed negligible' justification, while the 2025 PDD references a 5% deduction

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