The Conference of the Parties (COP), by its decision 9/CP.9, requested the secretariat to prepare a paper, with technical appendices, on the range and effectiveness of capacity-building activities in developing countries aimed at implementing decision 2/CP.7, for consideration by the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) at its twentieth session, this paper and its technical appendices to be based on the terms of reference contained in annex III of the report of the SBI on its eighteenth session (FCCC/SBI/2003/8). By the same decision, the COP also invited Parties to submit to the secretariat, by 15 February 2004, their views on additional information in a format to be guided by the above-mentioned terms of reference as an input to the paper and its technical appendices. The secretariat has received six such submissions. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, these submissions are attached and reproduced. in the language in which they were received and without formal editing