Improved Cooking Stove Programme in Burundi
#94of 150 in Cookstoves#3of 5 in Burundi#920of 1339 in Verra (VCS)#124of 189 in AMS-II.G
Audit Analysis
The Burundi cookstove project has VVB-verified additionality, confirmed FPIC, and a quantified leakage deduction, but is undermined by a project-specific baseline, ten corrective actions, nine material findings, and multiple cross-document contradictions. The 2026 verification report shows meaningful improvement in social safeguards documentation over the 2024 cycle, yet data inconsistencies in FNRB values, CER figures, and parameter counts raise reliability concerns. Overall, the project is functional but carries moderate data-quality risk.
Red Flags
- Ten corrective actions and nine material findings in the 2026 verification report, including an incorrect CER value for the third monitoring period that had to be corrected to 183,191 tCO2e
- FNRB value discrepancy of 100× between the 2024 verification report (81.83) and the monitoring report (0.8183), suggesting a unit-conversion error that was not resolved in the extracted record
- Project-specific baseline with no stated reassessment date; no buffer pool percentage found in any available document
- Inconsistent cookstove counts across documents (202,857 vs 202,856 vs 198,487) and inconsistent methodology version references (AMS-II.G v10 vs v12)
Credit Vintages
| Issued | Retired | Available | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 507,694 | 470,694 | 37,000 | |
| 2022 | 583,465 | 124,844 | 458,621 | |
| 2023 | 632,566 | 0 | 632,566 | |
| Total | 1,723,725 | 595,538 | 1,128,187 |
Risk Indicators
VVB-confirmed
low inherent risk for cookstoves
Quantified deduction (16,641 tCO2e)
Project-specific; reassessment not yet due under VCS 10-yr rule
FPIC, grievance mechanism, and safeguards confirmed (2026 VVR)
CORSIA excluded; CCP status not stated
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