This past week we visited 14 schools that participate under Simoshi’s registered Project Activity with the Gold Standard “Institutional Improved Cook Stoves for Schools and Institutions in Uganda”. We have closed our Monitoring Period 01/01/2025 until 31/12/2025 and the external auditor randomly selected 14 schools to perform the mandatory site visit to check on the use of the institutional improved cook stoves (IICS).
It has been a busy week with the local expert Doctor Aziz Wakibi, interviewing the kitchen staff, and school Head Teachers and Directors, to find out how the IICS are performing, and how Simoshi has been supporting the schools and the kitchens during such monitoring period.
This audit is what we call in the sector a “verification exercise”, a mandatory activity for any registered carbon project aiming at issuing carbon credits. Since the registration of the Project Activity, Simoshi has been systematically conducting verification exercises every single year, and all Monitoring Reports can be accessed here for public view, if you are interested at learning more at all 9 Sustainable Development Goals achieved, between many other impacts on the ground collected 6 times per year.
