Technical Summary for Third-Party Assessors.

The project applies GS Technologies and Practices to Displace Decentralised Thermal Energy Consumption (TPDDTEC) Version 4.0. This is a Gold Standard methodology confirmed as a CCP-eligible category by the ICVCM when certain requirements are met.

Methodology

GS TPDDTEC V4.0

CCP status

Methodology CCP-approved and programme CCP-eligible with the ICVCM; issued credits carry the CCP label (see section 07)

ICVCM confirmation

icvcm.org, GS TPDDTEC V4.0 approval document

Registry

Gold Standard, PoA GS12600; VPAs GS12851, GS23369, GS23370, GS23409

Project documents

Project documents (PDD, validation, verification and monitoring reports) on each project's impact registry page: GS12600, GS12851, GS23369, GS23370, GS23409.

The PDD, validation and verification reports and monitoring reports for each VPA are on the impact registry pages linked above. Methodology selection documentation and the ICS calculations are available on request.

The project applies a subnational fraction of non-renewable biomass (fNRB) value, set out in A6.4-MEP012-A04, Fraction of Non-Renewable Biomass V2, derived from the MoFuSS model (Modelling Fuelwood Saving Scenarios). This is the methodologically correct value for a project operating in a defined subnational geographic area. The A6.4-MEP012-A04 tool explicitly states that for fuels produced and consumed in geographically narrower regions, a subnational value is more appropriate.

fNRB applied

54%, Toliary Province (subnational)

Source

MoFuSS subnational model, referenced in project ICS 17

Methodological basis

A6.4-MEP012-A04, Fraction of Non-Renewable Biomass V2

Fraction of non-renewable biomass calculation and MoFuSS references available on request.

A third-party contractor has been engaged specifically to conduct continuous digital monitoring of stove usage using dedicated stove monitors. This is operational, not a planned measure.

Monitoring method

Continuous digital stove monitors, third-party contractor

GS classification

Data sensors, first in the Order of Preference in the CDM Sampling and Survey Guidelines V4, and best-practice monitoring under s2.4 GS Usage Rate Guidelines V2

GS guidance reference

GS TPDDTEC Best Practice Usage Rate Monitoring Requirements

Third-party monitoring contractor engagement records and stove monitor deployment data available on request.

The project holds complete safeguarding and FPIC documentation. No assessment of safeguarding should be completed without direct access to this material.

• A summary of FPIC, stakeholder engagement and legal ownership of emission reductions is set out in the PDDs.
• Complete FPIC records for each household, including specific consent records and participation rates from all initial consultations.
• Documented mechanisms for ongoing consent as the project scales across the project area.
• A qualified gender expert is contracted to conduct gender-responsive workshops, focus groups and ongoing monitoring.
• Multiple engagement channels: face-to-face visits, customer booklets with direct contact details, a Facebook channel, a confidential email channel, and the Gold Standard contact mechanism.
• Carbon rights transfer documentation provided in French and Malagasy at the point of stove distribution.
• Gender Responsive label awarded by Gold Standard on VPAs 3, 5, 6 and 7, visible as a project attribute on each registry page linked below: the first cookstove projects on the Gold Standard Impact Registry to carry the Gender Responsive label.

Registry evidence

PoA GS12600; VPAs GS12851, GS23369, GS23370, GS23409 (label shown under project attributes)

Safeguarding standard

Gold Standard safeguarding principles and requirements, applied at validation and every verification

FPIC standard

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; SaniTap's four-tier process in the FPIC explainer

Gender evidence

Gender expert contract and activity reports, gender-disaggregated monitoring, and the gender-responsive explainer

Full FPIC documentation, gender expert contract and activity reports, and engagement channel records available on request. See the FPIC explainer.

The project's authorisation status should be understood within the structure of Madagascar's Article 6 framework, in which a Letter of Authorisation (LoA) cannot be issued until verification is complete. This is a structural feature of Madagascar's framework, not a project deficiency. With verification now complete and the project Gold Standard certified, the LoA is the remaining step. To date, the Government of Madagascar has provided 23 LoAs, demonstrating that the country participates in international carbon markets.

Letter of Approbation received

Formal first step in Madagascar's LoA process, confirms active government support

Third-party verification complete

The precondition for LoA issuance under Madagascar's Article 6 framework is met; the project is Gold Standard certified

Letter of Authorisation

To follow, now that verification is complete. Madagascar has issued 23 LoAs to other projects, demonstrating the system is functional

CORSIA eligibility

Project meets ICAO eligibility criteria. LoA required to trade under CORSIA

CCP labelling

Issued credits carry the CCP label: Gold Standard is CCP-eligible and GS TPDDTEC v4.0 is CCP-approved on the ICVCM assessment status page. See section 07

Issued credits

76,607 VERs, 2025 vintage, VPAs 3, 5, 6 and 7, certified October 2026; serial-level detail on the credit register and the registry pages linked in section 01

Letter of Approbation and ICVCM CCP-eligible confirmation available on request. See the Madagascar Article 6 authorisations register (UNFCCC), the CORSIA position, and the integrity stack.

The Core Carbon Principles are ten science-based criteria set by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market, the market's independent integrity body. A credit carries the CCP label only when the crediting programme is assessed as CCP-eligible and the specific methodology version as CCP-approved. The label is awarded by the Integrity Council, never by the developer. Look for it as you would look for a high-welfare label on meat at the market: it costs more to earn, and it tells you an inspector who does not work for the seller has checked how the product was made.

Programme

Gold Standard for the Global Goals, assessed CCP-eligible (ICVCM assessment status)

Methodology

GS TPDDTEC v4.0, assessed CCP-approved. Several other cookstove methodologies were assessed as not meeting the CCPs; this project does not use them

Effective governance, tracking, transparency

Programme-level criteria met through Gold Standard: public registry with unique serial numbers, public project documents, independent validation and verification

Robust independent third-party validation and verification

Accredited VVB audit of every monitoring period before issuance; first monitoring report covered 90,241 households

Additionality

Demonstrated under Gold Standard rules; carbon finance funds the stove roll-out and the behavioural monitoring that aid programmes do not

Permanence

Structural: avoided combustion cannot be reversed, so no buffer is needed

Robust quantification

Conservative parameters: subnational fNRB of 54% (section 02); continuous third-party stove monitoring on a random sample (section 03)

No double counting

Registry serials; host-country Letter of Approbation held, Article 6 authorisation and corresponding adjustment in progress (section 05)

Sustainable development benefits and safeguards

Gold Standard safeguards, FPIC and the Gender Responsive label (section 04)

Contribution to net-zero transition

Efficient biomass stoves as a transition technology with no fossil lock-in; cleaner fuels layered in as networks mature

What an assessor should check: the CCP label on the issued credits on the registry pages in section 01; the programme and methodology entries on the ICVCM status page; and the parameters in sections 02 and 03 that make the quantification conservative. See the Core Carbon Principles explainer.