VPA 30 - GHG Emission Reduction through use of Bondhu Chula (Improved Cook Stoves) in Bangladesh

Audit Analysis

The Bondhu Chula cookstove project in Bangladesh has a VVB-confirmed additionality assessment and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but suffers from significant gaps in permanence treatment (reversal risk unaddressed, no buffer pool) and data quality issues flagged by the verifier. The absence of verified emission figures and a verified usage rate limits the ability to confirm that claimed reductions are actually being delivered.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Reversal risk for cookstoves (breakage, replacement with conventional stoves) is explicitly not addressed in the verification report, and no buffer pool percentage is stated
• ⚠Multiple material findings in the verification report flag data inconsistencies: identical stove distribution numbers in consecutive monitoring periods (183,882 in both MP#4 and MP#5), missing mobile numbers for all respondents, and name mismatches between survey forms and the installation database for 91–121 respondents
• ⚠Four corrective action requests (CAR 01–04) were raised by the verifier, indicating unresolved data quality concerns at the time of verification
• ⚠Usage rate assumed at 99% with no verified usage rate available to confirm this optimistic figure

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