GS5047 VPA62 African Improved Cookstoves and Clean Water Programme: Ibanda – Makera Forest Cook Stove Project VII

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove project in Rwanda with a named VVB and a combined additionality test, but undermined by six inter-document contradictions (notably in ERR figures and fNRB values), 13 outstanding corrective actions, a project-specific baseline with no recorded reassessment, and no buffer pool or permanence mechanism documented. The project's claims are not yet robustly supported by the available evidence.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠13 corrective actions remain open, including errors in installation dates, crediting period misalignment, missing baseline parameters (Nb,y and Pb,y), and a usage rate transferred incorrectly from a US calculation sheet
• ⚠ERR contradiction: the verification report states 233,534 tCO₂e while the monitoring report states 16,666 tCO₂e for the same period — a 14× discrepancy
• ⚠fNRB contradiction: 0.98 in the verification report versus 0.77 in the monitoring report, a 27% gap that materially affects baseline emissions
• ⚠Leakage treatment is contradictory: the verification report states leakage is 'deemed negligible' (0% deduction) while the monitoring report describes it as 'quantified'

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