GS5047 VPA37 African Improved Cookstoves and Clean Water Programme: Nyungwe Rainforest Cookstove Project V

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove project in Rwanda with VVB-confirmed additionality and a combined test, but undermined by a project-specific baseline, no buffer pool or permanence mechanism, a 0% leakage deduction that is internally contradicted, and multiple material findings including non-operational stoves. Eight contradictions across documents and a medium extraction confidence (with file-format metadata polluting the record) reduce confidence in the data integrity.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Nine stoves reported non-operational during MP3 and 1.65% of households reported broken stoves, yet no buffer pool or permanence mechanism is documented to cover reversal risk
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% justified as 'deemed negligible' in the October 2023 monitoring report, but an earlier May 2023 monitoring report described leakage as 'quantified' — an unresolved methodological contradiction
• ⚠The PDD (2017) states the functional non-replacement baseline (FNRB) was derived from local field data, while the 2023 monitoring report cites a national default — a methodological shift that could inflate claimed reductions
• ⚠FPIC was not conducted (explicitly recorded as false), and the grievance mechanism and safeguards documentation are contradicted between the verification report and the monitoring report within days of each other
• ⚠No lifetime ex-ante ERR figure or verified ERR figure is available in the extracted record, preventing any pro-rata over/under-delivery check

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