Table 2.

Summary of Factors Assessed

Enabling Environment Categories	Changes and Challenges Factors around Creating and Sustaining Momentum	Changes and Challenges Factors around Converting Momentum to Results
Narratives, knowledge, and evidence	• Framing of ‘nutrition’ • Advocacy and focusing events • Evidence of interventions coverage, scale, and quality	• Research around what works contextually, and why and how • Impact pathways – clear expression of linkages between nutrition activities and attainment of goals
Political economy and governance	• Political attention • Multisectoral coordination, including role delineation and policy integration • Accountability mechanisms	• Vertical coordination of interventions delivery from federal to community levels • Civil society and private sector involvement in intervention delivery
Capacity and resources	• Leadership and championing • Systemic capacity – Existence of decision-making forums; timeliness, appropriateness, and effectiveness of information, financial, and decision flows • Strategic capacity – Soft power skills, including ability to envision a plan, build alliances, leverage resources, and mobilize commitment to achieving plan	• Delivery and operational capacity – Existence of adequate numbers of staff with appropriate knowledge, skill mix, and motivation; availability of money and tools necessary for service delivery; sufficient numbers of facilities (physical structures) • Resource mobilization