1. The Conference of the Parties, by decision 4/CP.12, paragraph 1(a), invited Parties to submit to the secretariat, annually, information on the activities that they have undertaken pursuant to decisions 2/CP.7 and 2/CP.10.
2. The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, by decision 6/CMP.2, paragraph 1(a), invited Parties to submit to the secretariat, annually, information on the activities that they have undertaken pursuant to decision 29/CMP.1. It also invited relevant multilateral and bilateral agencies and the private sector to provide reports documenting their support of the implementation of the framework for capacity-building in developing countries undertaken pursuant to decision 29/CMP.1.
3. The Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), at its thirty-ninth session,1 invited Parties to submit to the secretariat, by 26 February 2014, their views on specific thematic issues relating to capacity-building under the Convention in developing countries to be considered at the 3rd meeting of the Durban Forum on capacity-building, to be held during SBI 40. It also invited them to submit their views on the organization of that meeting.
4. At the same session, the SBI invited Parties to submit to the secretariat, by the same date, their views on specific thematic issues relating to capacity-building under the Kyoto Protocol in developing countries to be considered at the same meeting of the Durban Forum on capacity-building. It also invited them to submit their views on the organization of that meeting.2
5. The secretariat has received three such submissions from two groups of Parties.3 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. In order to reduce paper consumption, the annex to the submission included in paper no. 1 is available online only.