The workshop was held January 28 – February 1, 2013 in Research Triangle Park, NC. The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC) brought technical staff from testing and knowledge centers together as a consortium to provide trainings, establish best practices and common data formats to share and integrate testing results. This workshop is the first in a series of capacity building workshops, which will focus on establishing a laboratory, quality assurance, and equipment maintenance and calibration.