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CARBON PROJECT

GS1247 VPA 21 Improved Kitchen Regimes: Gatsibo District Borehole Project Rwanda

Gold Standard · GS3432 · Rwanda

All projects Open in the registry
Credits issued
44,389
tonnes CO₂-equivalent
Credits retired
44,009
99% of issued
Remaining
380
issued and not yet retired
Status
Active
Gold Standard Certified Project

About this project

This Micro-Scale Voluntary Project Activity 21 Improved Kitchen Regimes: Gatsibo District Borehole Project, Rwanda (mVPA), is eligible under the Gold Standard methodology Technologies and Practices to Displace Decentralized Thermal Energy Consumption Version 1. The project will support the provision of safe water, using borehole technology, to hundreds of households within Gatsibo District. By providing safe water, the project will ensure that households consume less firewood during the process of water purification and as a result there will be a reduction in Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions from the combustion process.Gatsibo is a largely rural District in which local people typically use wood fuel on inefficient three-stone fires to purify their drinking, cleaning and washing water. This process results in the release of greenhouse gas emissions from the combustion of wood. This can be avoided if a technology that does not require fuel (wood or fossil), supplies the clean water desired by households.

The record

Project ID
GS3432
Registry
Gold Standard
Type
Community Boreholes · Household & Community
Removal or reduction
Reduction
Methodology
GS TPDDTEC Reduced emissions from cooking and heating – technologies and practices to displace decentralized thermal energy consumption v 1.
Developer
Deactivated Projects · 25 projects
Country
Rwanda
First vintage
2015
Crediting period
2015-06-03 to 2022-06-02
Estimated yearly credits
10,000
Scale
Micro Scale · VPA
Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 5: Gender Equality · Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being
Data from
Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry

Community involvement

households
Basis: Project description (Gold Standard registry). This lists who the project describes working with; it is not a check of benefit-sharing.
Sustainable Development Goals claimed: Goal 5: Gender Equality · Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being

Status and timeline

Registry status
Gold Standard Certified Project (Active)
First credits (vintage)
2015
Crediting period
2015-06-03 to 2022-06-02
Credits issued
44,389 (retired 44,009)

Credits by vintage year

Issued and retired, tonnes CO₂-equivalent

Location

Corrected location The registry location had swapped or sign-flipped coordinates; fixed and checked against the country border
Coordinates
-1.6200, 30.2000
Source
Gold Standard registry (public API), corrected
Note
Registry gave latitude 30.2, longitude -1.62 (swap); corrected to the only variant that falls inside Rwanda
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Credit totals and status are as compiled in the Berkeley Voluntary Registry Offsets Database v2026-08 (CC BY 4.0) and change as the registries update. Please check the registry record before you quote a figure.
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