The CMS Family, Parties and other stakeholders need to address capacity building needs to achieve implementation of the SPMS. Several tools were developed within the CMS Family to support this, in particular the CMS Capacity Building Strategy and the Manual for the National Focal Points for CMS and its Instruments - a capacity building tool to guide the national focal points of CMS and its instruments on their roles and responsibilities, helping them to make a more effective contribution to implementation. Furthermore, a number of resolutions and tools developed and adopted within the CMS Family equally contain provisions in support of capacity development on specific points.

Under this functional heading the Companion Volume aims to provide an overview of the instruments available throughout the CMS Family that support capacity development in support of the SPMS implementation.