GS1340 Efficient cookstoves in Burkina Faso - VPA-16 - Improved Cookstove F3PA project in Nahouri

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard cookstove project in Burkina Faso has a sound core methodology with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but is undermined by 20 material findings in the verification report, significant contradictions across documents (ERR figures, FPIC status, safeguards), and a project-specific baseline without a stated reassessment date. The overall picture is one of a methodologically reasonable project whose reporting quality and data consistency fall well below the standard expected for a verified credit.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠20 material findings in the verification report, including a formula error in the monitoring survey sheet affecting Up and DFb values, SDG value discrepancies between the MR and supporting spreadsheets, and missing technical specifications for the stoves
• ⚠FPIC status contradicts between the PDD (conducted) and the verification report (not conducted); the more recent and authoritative verification report indicates FPIC was not carried out
• ⚠Total ERR verified figure of 169,085 in the 2023 verification report versus 49,827 in the 2024 verification report — a 3.4× discrepancy that is not explained in the extracted record
• ⚠Buffer pool percentage and reversal event history are not stated in any available document, leaving permanence risk unquantified
• ⚠Usage survey for the 2022 monitoring period was conducted in 2023, introducing a timing gap that the verification report only partially justified

Credit Vintages