GS5047 VPA45 African Improved Cookstoves and Clean Water Programme: Albertine Rift Wildlife Corridor Cook Stove Project II

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard cookstove project in Uganda has VVB-verified additionality and a monitoring record where verified emissions reductions closely match claimed figures, but it is burdened by 14 material findings, a 25-percentage-point gap between assumed and verified usage rates, no buffer pool, and no FPIC. Multiple contradictions across the PDD, monitoring reports, and verification report reduce confidence in the consistency of the project's reported parameters.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Usage rate verified at 67.12% versus 90% assumed in the ex-ante estimate — a 25-percentage-point shortfall that raises over-crediting risk in the original design
• ⚠14 material findings in the verification report, including stove durability failures, missing usage surveys for two years, and seven grievances from beneficiaries
• ⚠FPIC was not conducted despite the project operating in a wildlife corridor community
• ⚠FNRB value contradicts between documents: 0.82 (national default, monitoring report 2024) versus 0.98 (local field, PDD 2018)

Credit Vintages