• FAO provides wood energy statistics at national, regional and global levels and shares these data in articles and presentations for meetings and conferences to highlight the importance of wood fuels for both the energy and forestry sectors.

FAO strengthens national capacities to:

• actively assess their current wood fuel situation
• use secondary data – e.g. scattered data from project literature and other sources
• reconcile data on consumption (energy statistics), production (forestry statistics) and trade (flows).

FAO assists policymakers and decision-makers of member states by:

• organizing events for stakeholder consultation, consensus finding, capacity building
• facilitating exchanges of experience between countries. Wood energy solutions are always very specific to the local conditions, often requiring even site-specific solutions. However good examples from other countries can bring new ideas and inspiration to others.

FAO serves as a neutral platform for discussion to:

• strengthen national capacities to mediate between and reconcile with all stakeholders involved, such as various socio-economic layers in rural and urban areas
  
• enable cross-sectoral communication and understanding in particular with the energy sector but also all other sectors involved.

FAO assists countries in:

• improving skills of stakeholders involved in the production and transportation of wood fuels, notably charcoal
• providing skills to small scale forest owners and communal forest owners on how to sustainably produce and market wood fuels
• developing skilled workers for small and medium scale production of efficient cooking stoves
• facilitating technology transfer in wood-based energies and
• fostering the dissemination of bioenergy technologies.