Up Energy Improved Cookstoves Programme, Uganda – CPA No 036 supported by Republic of Korea

Integrity

The monitoring report shows a combined additionality test and states that additionality was verified by the VVB, which supports the project’s core integrity case. Leakage is quantified at 0.95%, but reversal handling is weak because reversal events are marked as not addressed and no buffer pool percentage is stated. The baseline is project-based rather than jurisdictional, and the baseline was last reassessed in 2025, which helps, but the overall permanence and baseline robustness remain only moderate.

Transparency

The monitoring report identifies the VVB, the 2022 monitoring period, and annual survey-based usage monitoring, which is a positive transparency signal. At the same time, the extracted record does not provide claimed versus verified ER totals, and the contradiction on usage monitoring method versus an earlier self-report approach creates uncertainty about consistency. The absence of a stated CORSIA status and the lack of a clear registry completeness signal also limit transparency.

Claim Safety

Claim safety is helped by the quantified leakage deduction and the verified usage rate of 90.92%, which suggests the project is not relying on implausibly high usage assumptions. However, the baseline remains project-specific, and the record does not state CORSIA eligibility or CCP approval, so dual-market claim risk cannot be ruled out from the extracted facts alone. The contradictions around leakage justification and usage monitoring method further weaken confidence that the credited reductions are fully robust.

Documentation

Documentation is fairly solid, with 13 documents used, including the monitoring report and stakeholder consultation material, and the record shows FPIC, a grievance mechanism, and benefit-sharing being described. Still, extraction confidence is only medium, and the record contains multiple contradictions, including the crediting period and benefit-sharing description. The presence of many resolved CARs and CLs indicates scrutiny, but it also shows the project required substantial clarification.

Overall

The project has a credible core structure for an improved cookstove programme, especially because additionality was VVB-confirmed and leakage was quantified. However, the record contains several contradictions that must be weighted against the more recent or more specific monitoring-report values: I privileged the 2022 monitoring report for usage monitoring and leakage treatment, and the later crediting-period value where it appears in the contradiction list, because those are the more recent and operationally specific entries. The overall score is therefore moderate rather than strong, with the main weaknesses coming from data reliability, incomplete permanence treatment, and unresolved claim-safety uncertainty.