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GS1247 VPA 106 Improved Kitchen Regimes: Kayonza District Borehole Project Rwanda
Gold Standard · GS5392 · Rwanda
Credits issued
42,039
tonnes CO₂-equivalent
Credits retired
42,039
100% of issued
Remaining
0
issued and not yet retired
Status
Active
Gold Standard Certified Project
About this project
This Micro-Scale Voluntary Project Activity 106 Improved Kitchen Regimes: Kayonza 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.
The record
- Project ID
- GS5392
- 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
- CO2balance UK ltd · 417 projects
- Country
- Rwanda
- First vintage
- 2015
- Crediting period
- 2015-12-10 to 2022-12-10
- Estimated yearly credits
- 10,000
- Scale
- Micro Scale · VPA
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 5: Gender Equality · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being
- Data from
- Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry
Community involvement
The registry record we hold does not describe the communities involved.
Registry documents (the project design document and validation report) normally cover consultation and benefit-sharing; open the record in the registry to read them.
Sustainable Development Goals claimed: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 5: Gender Equality · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being
Status and timeline
- Registry status
- Gold Standard Certified Project (Active)
- First credits (vintage)
- 2015
- Crediting period
- 2015-12-10 to 2022-12-10
- Credits issued
- 42,039 (retired 42,039)
Credits by vintage year
Issued and retired, tonnes CO₂-equivalent
Location
Programme location Location stated by the registry and shared by several projects of one programme
- Coordinates
- -1.8500, 30.6500
- Source
- Gold Standard registry (public API)
- Note
- Same coordinates are shared by 16 registry entries of one programme
Other community boreholes projects in Rwanda
| GS10959 VPA05 Safe Water Project in Rwanda V GS11136 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 235,152 |
| GS 10959 VPA01 Safe Water Project in Rwanda I GS11098 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 233,491 |
| GS10959 VPA03 Safe Water Project in Rwanda III GS11134 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 228,066 |
| GS10959 VPA04 Safe Water Project in Rwanda IV GS11135 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 227,702 |
| GS10959 VPA02 Safe Water Project in Rwanda II GS11133 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 223,831 |
| GS10959 VPA06 Safe Water Project in Rwanda VI GS11137 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 217,589 |
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.