GS1340 Efficient cookstoves in Burkina Faso - VPA-03 - tiipaalga F3PA cookstoves in Bam and Loroum

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove project in Burkina Faso with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but undermined by the absence of a buffer pool, a project-specific baseline, a disputed FPIC status, and 16 outstanding corrective actions. Security instability in the region has created recurring monitoring gaps and data-quality concerns that reduce confidence in the verified emission reductions.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠FPIC status is contradictory: the PDD (2022) states it was conducted, but the verification report (2023) records it as not conducted; the more recent verification report is privileged, leaving a safeguards gap.
• ⚠16 corrective actions remain open, including requirements for an on-site visit, grievance log evidence, and multiple data corrections, indicating the verification was not fully clean.
• ⚠Two verification reports show materially different ERR figures (82,535 vs 169,085 tCO₂e), and the absence of a lifetime ex-ante estimate prevents a reliable pro-rata delivery check.
• ⚠55 sampled households could not be visited due to insecurity and were assigned a 0% usage rate, introducing a conservative but unverified data gap.

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