GS1247 VPA 89 Southern Ethiopia Efficient Cook Stoves

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard domestic cook-stove project in Southern Ethiopia with VVB-confirmed additionality, a quantified 5% leakage deduction, and no reported reversals, but undermined by a project-specific baseline, absence of a stated buffer pool, an extensive list of material findings and corrective actions, and significant data-extraction quality issues that mix unrelated logistics records into the project file. The conservative fNRB (0.83) and usage-rate cap (90%) provide some claim safety, yet the low extraction confidence and numerous cross-document contradictions limit confidence in the underlying data.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The extracted record contains unrelated logistics/livestock data (tracking numbers, carrier 'Mirt', destination cities) mixed into the project file, indicating a serious data-extraction or file-management error.
• ⚠Twenty-plus material findings and corrective actions were logged in the 2026 verification report, including a discrepancy between a reported 100% usage rate and a maintenance campaign for 185 non-functional stoves, a transcription error in baseline fuel consumption, and multiple Excel formula errors.
• ⚠The fNRB value and method are inconsistent across verification reports: 0.83 (national default, 2026) versus 0.93 (local field, 2024), with material findings referencing both an 'expired CDM default' and a 'Tool 30 calculation (93%)'.
• ⚠Min extraction confidence is rated low, meaning at least one key document was poorly readable, reducing reliability of all extracted figures.

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