Likoni and Shimoni Improved Cook Stove Project

Audit Analysis

The Likoni and Shimoni cook stove project has a functional additionality test and documented safeguards, but is undermined by a 0% leakage deduction with no justification, an absent buffer pool, self-reported usage monitoring, and ten cross-document contradictions that erode confidence in the underlying data. The project delivered only about 69% of its period-specific claim, and the VVB is listed as Gold Standard itself rather than an independent verifier, raising independence concerns.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with justification listed as 'not addressed' in the 2016 verification report, despite the 2010 PDD having quantified a 7.54% leakage factor — a material regression in treatment
• ⚠Ten contradictions across documents, including conflicting additionality test types (investment vs. barrier), conflicting FNRB methods (national default vs. local field), and conflicting crediting period end dates
• ⚠VVB listed as 'Gold Standard' — the standard-setting body itself — rather than an independent verification body, raising a structural independence concern
• ⚠Usage monitoring method contradicted between self-report (2016 verification) and annual survey (2016 monitoring report), with no clear resolution

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