Institutional Improved Cookstoves for Schools and Institutions in Uganda

Audit Analysis

Project shows some governance and procedural strengths (VVB-confirmed additionality, named VVB, FPIC and grievance mechanisms reported in recent verification), but large discrepancies in emissions reporting, missing leakage deduction percentage and limited evidence on baseline reassessment undermine confidence and increase over‑crediting risk.

Project Description

Simoshi is a social enterprise dedicated to improving the livelihoods of low-income individuals, especially women and children. Through the installation of institutional improved cookstoves (IICS) this project brings cleaner, healthier, and environmentally friendly cooking technology to schools in Uganda, saving money, forests, emissions and improving health. Why improved cookstoves are important? About 90% of the total primary energy consumption in Uganda is generated through biomass: firewood (78.6%), charcoal (5.6%) and crop residues (4.7%). Every year 19,700 people die as a consequence of using 3-stone fires for their daily cooking activities. These traditional stoves have been associated with extremely low efficiency with 93% of the energy generated being lost during cooking. Not only does it result in indoor and outdoor air pollution, but also contributes to regional deforestation and forest degradation - from 1990 and until 2010 more than 39% of the existing forest disappeared. Currently, about 90,000 hectares (equals 900 km²) of forest cover are lost annually, which leads to fuel wood scarcity in rural areas and increasing price levels of charcoal and firewood. This project helps alleviate all these issues through institutional improved cookstoves that enable cleaner, safer, and more efficient cooking. Simoshi conducts a census approach to verify the usage rate, visiting and monitoring all schools included in the project. The IICS usage and kitchen environment are monitored at least 7 times during the year and checks are made to ensure that the replaced traditional stoves have been dismantled and are no longer in use.  Emission reductions are robustly quantified in line with the methodological approach used. Baseline fuel usage surveys are conducted and followed up by monitoring of the specific firewood consumption. This monitoring is carried out three times a year to confirm that a minimum 50% savings are achieved from all participating schools.

Red Flags

• ⚠ Large contradictions in reported emission reductions (total ERR claimed vs verified vary widely across documents).
• ⚠ Key fields not found or not quantified: leakage deduction percentage, buffer pool percentage, baseline reassessment.
• ⚠ Low extraction confidence and multiple contradictory historical verification reports reducing data reliability.

Credit Vintages

Cosa migliorerebbe questo punteggio

• Provide a reconciled account of total emission reductions with an explanation for discrepancies between claimed and verified ERR across reports and an updated single authoritative figure.
• Document and publish the leakage deduction percentage, buffer/reversal provisions, and the date and outcome of any baseline reassessment; improve source data quality to address extraction-confidence issues.

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