GS2489 – Efficient cookstoves in Benin and Togo – VPA2 – EcoBénin – Wanrou efficient cookstoves in Atacora/Donga region

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove efficiency project in Benin with a combined additionality test, quantified 5% leakage deduction, and no reported reversal events. The project delivered approximately 57% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the elapsed monitoring period, indicating conservative crediting. Several data contradictions across documents—particularly on leakage rates and safeguards documentation—warrant caution, and the project-specific baseline with no stated reassessment timing limits confidence in baseline robustness.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction figure is contradictory: the 2023 verification report records 0.95 (ambiguous unit) while the 2025 monitoring report records 5%; the true deduction rate is unclear from the extracted record
• ⚠Safeguards documentation is contradictory: the verification report (2025-07-25) confirms safeguards are mentioned, but the monitoring report of the same date states they are not; the VVB assessment is privileged but the discrepancy undermines confidence
• ⚠Additionality was assessed via a combined test, but explicit VVB confirmation of the additionality finding is not stated in the extracted record

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