Table 1.

General characteristics of studies included

Objective		Number	Country	Number	Level of capacity	Number
1	System-level evaluations (economic or not) of QI capacity building/training	0
2	Initiative level economic evaluations of QI capacity building/training	2	USA	1	Organisational	2
			UK	1
3	Initiative level evaluations (non-economic) of QI capacity building/training	46	USA	33	Individual	19
			Canada	8	Organisational	11
	- Evaluations of QI training programme	(19)	UK	3	Interorganisational	16
	- Evaluations of QI capacity building programme/initiative	(6)	Ethiopia	1
	- QI capacity evaluations	(5)	Uganda	1
	- Assessment or analysis-related to QI capacity building	(16)