In Darfur forums such as the Fuel and Energy Working Groups and the Protection Working Groups have worked to look at ways to encourage the use of fuel efficient stoves and have also advocated for greater funding and more partners to plan and implement projects for Fuel Efficiency. These forums have effectively created awareness among the international and national community of the utility of fuel efficient stove projects, but the methods and approaches have often been more based on training than on impact of dissemination models, methods or marketing. In addition, little evaluation or impact analysis has been completed post programming to encourage replication.

Pilot models have been developed without careful monitoring of cultural viability, livelihood impact, or utility. There has been little coordination with the health sector and even less with the water and sanitation sector. The Protection working groups have worked very hard to encourage these interventions, but it will take a coordinated effort to encourage mass dissemination, monitoring and careful impact studies on pilot models to yield sustainable and viable models to help mitigate the conflicts that emerge in these environments over access to resources.

A recent fuel efficient stove project in Kebkabiya, North Darfur trained 6,000 women to build and teach other women to build stoves. The project aimed to improve the security of women in by reducing the time spent and distance traveled in collecting firewood. The project trained over 6000 women in making fuel-efficient stoves and educated them in a number of cooking practices to reduce firewood consumption and smoke inhalation in the home. The project was also aiming to help to slow the deforestation process around Kebkabiya.