UpEnergy-Social and Climate Impact Programme- Cooking Devices VPA-15

Audit Analysis

The UpEnergy cooking-device project in Uganda has VVB-confirmed additionality and no reported reversal events, but suffers from a project-specific baseline, an unaddressed 0% leakage deduction, and a large number of corrective actions (22 items) spanning typos and substantive parameter inconsistencies. ERR delivery appears reasonable (verified 7,601 vs. claimed 7,732), though the absence of a lifetime ex-ante figure and multiple cross-document contradictions limit confidence in the credit quantity.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with justification recorded as 'not addressed' in the verification report, while the monitoring report claims it was 'quantified' — a direct contradiction that leaves the leakage treatment unresolved for a project displacing solid-fuel cooking.
• ⚠22 corrective actions were required by the VVB, including substantive issues such as inconsistent emission-reduction caps, wrong-version stakeholder consultation reports, and baseline emission-factor equation errors, indicating weak internal quality control.
• ⚠FPIC status is contradictory: the verification report (Oct 2024) states it was not conducted, while the validation report (Dec 2025) states it was — the more recent validation report's date is anomalous and the discrepancy is unresolved.

Credit Vintages