Solar Cooking for Refugee Families in Chad

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard solar cookstove project for refugee families in Chad with VVB-verified additionality, quantified 5% leakage deduction, and documented safeguards including FPIC and a grievance mechanism. The project is over-delivering relative to its ex-ante estimates (approximately 195% of the pro-rata expectation for the 2024 monitoring period), which is conservative. However, the project-specific baseline, absence of a stated buffer pool, remote-only audits due to security constraints, and material shortages in one site introduce moderate integrity and operational risks.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Material shortages in Iridimi led to lower replacement rates and lower emission reductions than estimated, creating a risk of under-delivery in future periods
• ⚠Monitoring surveys for 2017 and 2018 were not carried out as planned and were conducted 18–24 months late (Dec 2019–Jan 2020), indicating MRV timing gaps
• ⚠All site visits were conducted remotely due to security issues in Eastern Chad, limiting the depth of on-the-ground verification
• ⚠fNRB method is reported as 'national_default' in the 2025 verification report but 'local_field' in the 2021 monitoring report, creating uncertainty about the correct basis

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