GS1340 Efficient cookstoves in Burkina Faso - VPA-04 - tiipaalga F3PA cookstoves in Bam and Loroum

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove project in Burkina Faso with confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but undermined by the absence of a buffer pool, a project-specific baseline with no recorded reassessment, and a lengthy list of 16 corrective actions stemming from security-related monitoring gaps and data-quality issues. The verified usage rate (95.07%) closely matches the assumed 95%, supporting the core emission-reduction claim, yet multiple cross-document contradictions and medium extraction confidence limit overall reliability.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No buffer pool or permanence safeguard identified for this avoidance-type cookstove project, leaving reversal risk (stove abandonment, breakage) unaddressed beyond the 5% leakage deduction.
• ⚠16 corrective actions required by SustainCERT, including hidden rows in the ER spreadsheet, a >1-year gap between monitoring surveys due to security instability, and 55 sampled households unvisited and scored as 0% users.
• ⚠FPIC status is contradictory: the PDD (2022) states FPIC was conducted, while the 2023 verification report records it as not conducted.
• ⚠Baseline is project-specific with no recorded reassessment date, and the crediting period (2015–2025) is nearing its end without documented baseline updates.

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