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The paper first briefly summarises the evolution of the WIPO Development Agenda to date and the back-ground for its recommendations on capacity-building. Part 2 sets out the history, scope, financing, and scale of WIPO TA. Part 3 presents the core elements of the critique of this assistance. Part 4 presents a sampling of the WIPO Secretariat’s efforts thus far to respond to the WIPO development agenda recommendations approved in 2007. Part 5 reviews the lessons learned for WIPO Member States regarding what development-oriented TA means. Drawing on these lessons, Part 6 concludes with proposals for concrete measures and options for WIPO Members and the Secretariat to pursue.