Table 3.

Recommendations during task force meetings and impact on the needs assessment plan

Recommendations	Responses	Impact on
1. Access the needs of the districts implementing Package of Essential Non-communicable diseases (PEN) separately.	Plan to purposively select half of the sample districts with PEN program	Design
2. Assess pharmaceuticals and medical supplies for CVD prevention and management	Added pharmaceuticals and medical supplies in the conceptual framework	Design
3. Increase role of government representative in implementing and interpreting the results to keep the assessment process aligned with the government’s priority and to facilitate the uptake of the assessment results.	Invited two government representatives in the task force.	Stakeholder engagement
4. Clarify the role and power of Nepal of Health Research Council in the needs assessment plan	Jointly developed a detail terms of reference clarifying expectations, role and power of Nepal Health Research Council	Stakeholder engagement
5. Involve the CVD translational research fellows in the need assessment process to increase the scope of the study.	Conduced a workshop with CVD translational research fellows to explore their involvement	Stakeholder engagement