Table 3.

Implementation strategies targeting Nutrition Now implementation delivered through Municipality (Organizational level).

Category (55, 56)	Strategy (# denotes ERIC implementation strategy) (57)	The Actor (deliver strategy)	The Action (specific action, steps or process)	Action target (affected by strategy)	Implementation outcome(s)	Temporality and Dose	Justification
Use evaluative and iterative strategies	#4 Assess for readiness and identify barriers and facilitators	Implementation researchers	Meetings with stakeholders in municipality	Stakeholders in municipality	Adoption Appropriateness Feasibility	Pre-implementation from project start until the end of September 2022	Identify factors that may disrupt implementation, and strengths that can be exploited in the implementation effort
	#56 Purposefully reexamine the implementation	Implementation researchers	Conduct monthly short status meetings with public health coordinator	Public health coordinator	Feasibility	Monthly - during the pre-implementation and implementation process	Anchor implementation strategies, optimize implementation strategies to maximize intervention effectiveness
Develop stakeholder interrelationships	#6 Build a coalition	Implementation researchers	Conduct meetings with stakeholders	Stakeholders in municipality	Feasibility Fidelity	Pre implementation and during implementation	Ensure a good collaborative environment between stakeholders and research team at the municipality level
	#17 Conduct local consensus discussions	Implementation researchers	Conduct Mapping session	Stakeholders in municipality and politicians	Feasibility Sustainability	Pre-implementation, one time Amounts to 2 hours spent by each stakeholder/politician at municipality level	Establish a consensus for a need to improvement of early childhood nutrition in the municipality and the need for implementing Nutrition Now
	#47 Obtain formal commitments	University and municipality leaders	Written formal agreement between municipality and University	Municipality	Feasibility Sustainability	Pre implementation	Ensure key partners to commit to the signed agreement
Engage consumers	#Use mass media	Implementation researchers and stakeholders in municipality	Interviews in Newspapers, municipality website, blogpost	Target population in municipality	Adoption Reach	Pre implementation (newspaper interviews) and during implementation (website and blogpost)	Contribute to make Nutrition Now known and familiar to the target population
Change infrastructure	# Mandate change	Stakeholders in municipality	Declaration of priority given to Nutrition Now	MCH and ECEC in municipality	Adoption Fidelity Sustainability	Pre implementation and implementation - ongoing	Establish a determination to implement Nutrition Now