GS1340 Efficient cookstoves in Burkina Faso – VPA-11 - tiipaalga F3PA cookstoves in Kourwéogo

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard cookstove project in Burkina Faso has a confirmed additionality assessment and no reversal events, but is undermined by a project-specific baseline, no stated buffer pool, a significant decline in verified usage rate (from 95% assumed to 69.9% verified), and numerous data-quality corrective actions. Multiple contradictions across verification, validation, and monitoring reports — particularly on FPIC status, FNRB method, and ERR figures — erode confidence in the underlying data. The project is under-delivering relative to ex-ante estimates, which limits over-crediting risk but signals operational fragility.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Verified usage rate of 69.9% is far below the 95% assumed in the ex-ante estimate, indicating significant stove deterioration and adoption decline
• ⚠FPIC status is contradictory: the PDD (2022) states FPIC was conducted, but the verification report (2024) records it as not conducted
• ⚠Multiple corrective actions required, including inconsistent Np parameter values, wrong GWP values (AR5 used instead of AR4 for 2020 vintage), and inconsistent unit notation across monitoring reports
• ⚠FNRB method is contradictory: the validation report (2023) records a local field measurement while the verification report (2026) records a national default

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