GS4424 VPA1 African Cookstoves and Water Programme

Audit Analysis

The African Cookstoves and Water Programme in Rwanda has VVB-confirmed additionality and a verified ERR that matches the claimed figure, but is undermined by a major usage-rate discrepancy (99% assumed in the PDD versus roughly 53% verified), a 0% leakage deduction with contradictory justifications across documents, seven material findings in the verification report, and a project-specific baseline with no documented reassessment. The low extraction confidence and multiple cross-document contradictions further erode confidence in the underlying data.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Usage rate assumed at 99% in the PDD but verified at approximately 52.74% in the verification report — a gap of nearly 47 percentage points that raises serious over-crediting concerns
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with contradictory justifications: the verification report (June 2023) states 'quantified' while the monitoring report (June 2023) states 'deemed negligible', and no quantified leakage figure is provided in either document
• ⚠Seven material findings in the verification report, including inconsistent ICS unit counts across monitoring report sections, an outdated tracking database used for random sampling, and an undefined 'use vs non-use' criterion
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set, indicating at least one key document was poorly readable, which limits the reliability of the extracted data

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