TDRA was composed of six commissions amongst which Darfur Reconstruction and Development Fund (DRDF) represented the backbone of the Authority.

In 2008 as the government failed to fulfil its obligations to allocate the seed money ($700 million) agreed upon in the agreement Abdelgabar Dosa resigned and is living as a refugee in the UK.

[9] The new Chairman Shartai Jaafar Abdel Hakam subsequently dismissed 10 other members of the Sudan Liberation Movement from the authority.

This new agreement was intended to supersede the 2006 Abuja Agreement and included provisions for a Darfuri Vice-President and an administrative structure that includes both the states (as part of the process, two additional states were to be created in January 2012 within Darfur) and a strategic regional authority to oversee Darfur as a whole.

The transition process towards a new authority began on 20 September 2011 when Tijani Sese was named as its chairman by the President of Sudan.

[16][17][18] The referendum result supported the retention of the status quo and the regional authority was dissolved on 14 June 2016.

The agreement stated that the two former rebel groups would join the transition to democracy in Sudan through peaceful means.