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Health research capacity strengthening (RCS) has been high on both national and international agendas, as is evidenced by a steady stream of peer-reviewed and grey literature, training tools, programmes and grants, workshops, task forces and conferences on various issues in the broad and complex area of RCS. Th e nearly unanimous consensus among all stakeholders about the vital role of research capacity in bridging the “know-do gap” and in addressing effectively inequities in health research is in sharp contrast with the research capacity reality, where all these actors most of the time seem to be doing their own business and where also equity as an underlying value is getting lost.