GS1385 Man and Man Enterprise Improved Cooking Stoves Programme in Ghana - VPA005 (Volta region)

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard improved cooking stove project in Ghana's Volta region with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but undermined by unaddressed reversal risk, a project-specific baseline, a 4× discrepancy in ex-ante lifetime emissions reductions across documents, and a heavy load of corrective and clarification requests (8 CARs, 17 CLs, 3 FARs) that raise material data-reliability concerns.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Reversal events are explicitly 'not addressed' and no buffer pool percentage is stated, leaving permanence risk unquantified for a project whose credits depend on stoves remaining in use
• ⚠Ex-ante lifetime emissions reductions differ by a factor of four between the 2014 validation report (2.44 M tCO₂e) and an undated appendix (9.79 M tCO₂e), making the baseline credit volume unreliable
• ⚠Eight corrective action requests include inconsistencies in stove efficiency values, annual energy savings, and ER calculations, indicating the underlying quantification has not been fully reconciled
• ⚠The VVB-verified ERR figure is not stated in the extracted record; only the project's claimed 101,335 tCO₂e for the monitoring period is available

Credit Vintages