OYU - Building Sustainable Ugandan Communities VPA12

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard energy-efficiency project (improved cooking stoves in Uganda) has a verified additionality assessment and a locally measured fNRB, and the verified ERR exceeds the pro-rata ex-ante expectation, reducing over-crediting risk. However, the verification report lists over 40 material findings—including missing baseline and project performance field tests, missing performance certifications, and numerous methodology-alignment gaps—that significantly undermine confidence in the robustness of the baseline and additionality claims. The project also lacks a buffer pool, has a project-specific baseline with no recorded reassessment, and FPIC was not conducted per the most recent validation report.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Over 40 material findings in the verification report, including missing baseline performance field tests, missing project performance field tests, and missing performance certifications from the National Standards body
• ⚠FPIC recorded as not conducted in the most recent validation report (March 2025), contradicting an earlier validation report (December 2024) that recorded it as conducted
• ⚠Multiple missing supporting documents flagged: ODA declaration, VER ownership evidence, manufacturer specifications, sampling plan, LSC document, and qualitative survey
• ⚠Leakage deduction changed from 0% (appendix, Dec 2022) to 5% (verification report, Mar 2025) without clear explanation of the methodological shift

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