Practice note · Supacare Centre
You distributed 1,000 stoves. How many are in use?
A delivery record establishes receipt. To assess use, you need observations from the monitoring period.
Try the case
In this fictional example, a team selects 100 households from its distribution register. Monitors document use at 72, non-use at 18 and no usable observation at 10. What can the team report?
Compare your answer
Among the 90 households with usable observations, 72 of 90 (80%) showed use. Across all 100 selected households, 72 had documented use, 18 documented non-use and 10 were unknown. Those are different denominators. Neither proves that 800 of the 1,000 stoves are in use.
What would you check next?
Trace each observation to a stove ID, household, monitoring date and source record. Check how households were selected, whether non-response was systematic, and what the applicable methodology requires for missing data. Keep unobserved households separate from observed non-use.
This exercise measures evidence completeness. It does not establish fuel savings, emission reductions or eligibility for credits.