these capacity building trainings and workshops are often aimed at faculty students and other researchers and public servants in developing countries for the puipose of this analysis it is assumed that these trainings contribute towards enhancing countries sti capacity however it is likely that the inclusion of all development finance channelled through universities overestimates the amount of development finance supporting sti providers are required to include text descriptions of the activities when reporting to the crs however in practice this information has been difficult to use for analytical purposes because of the differences in quality of the descriptions