Table 1.

National and International Contextual Factors and their influences on development of OHP

Contextual factors	Influence on development of OHP in Nigeria
	Enabling	Constraining
National	● The National Strategic Health Development Plan (NSHDP) in progress.	● Lack of funding and government support especially for research activities.
	● Dedicated oral health research institute; Inter-country Centre for Oral health (ICOH)—a key source of generating and disseminating research evidence.	● Bureaucracy in the country which causes delay in approval and implementation of OHP.
		● Poor dissemination of research evidence from the ICOH to local levels which also leads to poor utilization
	● High level of interest and commitment of key stakeholders and a desire to align with international standards
International	● International movement towards oral health policies and evidence-based practices.	● Inadequate financial support of the country towards evidence generation
	● Support of WHO and the World Bank with funding and dissemination of relevant policy documents.