Mubende Stoves Improved Cook Stoves Enterprise

Audit Analysis

The Mubende Stoves project is a Gold Standard improved cook stove initiative in Uganda with a solid combined additionality test verified by the VVB and a quantified 5% leakage deduction. However, permanence and reversal risk are not addressed in the available documents, and the project relies on a project-specific baseline without a stated reassessment schedule. The project delivered roughly half of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the first monitoring period, indicating conservative crediting.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Reversal/permanence risk is explicitly 'not addressed' in the verification report, and no buffer pool percentage is stated for this 5-year crediting period
• ⚠Six Corrective Action Requests were raised during verification (resolved, but indicating material documentation or methodology issues at the time of audit)
• ⚠Usage monitoring method is contradictory between documents: the verification report (2025) states self-reporting while the monitoring report (2025) states an annual survey
• ⚠The lifetime ex-ante ERR differs by a factor of ~2.5 between the PDD (156,145) and the monitoring report (62,458), creating uncertainty about the true baseline calculation

Credit Vintages