GS5047 VPA84 African Improved Cookstoves and Clean Water Programme: Gishwati – Mukura Forest Conservation Project XII

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard improved cookstove project in Rwanda has a reasonable methodological foundation (combined additionality test, national-default FNRB, annual survey monitoring), but the available documentation record is severely compromised by poor data extraction quality, an unidentifiable VVB, no verified emission reductions, and unresolved contradictions in leakage treatment and FNRB values. The project cannot be confidently assessed for over- or under-crediting without a verified monitoring report.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No VVB name or verification body identified in any available document, making additionality verification status unknown
• ⚠No verified emission reduction figure exists to validate the 5,850 tCO₂e claimed; the lifetime ex-ante estimate is also absent
• ⚠Registry is listed as CDM in the extracted record while the project is registered under Gold Standard (GS-2979), indicating a possible cross-registry confusion or data error
• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory: the monitoring report states 'quantified' while the PDD (2020-10-07) states 'deemed negligible', yet the deduction is 0% in both cases
• ⚠Sector is classified as 'industrial' for a domestic cookstove project, suggesting a data-entry or extraction error that undermines confidence in the record

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