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Table 4 Salient CFIR inner and outer setting constructs: facilitators and barriers to implementation of routine vaccination programming

From: Drivers of early childhood vaccination success in Nepal, Senegal, and Zambia: a multiple case study analysis using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research

Construct

Nepal

Senegal

Zambia

Inner setting (Ministry of Health)

 • Networks and communication

The nature and quality of webs of social networks and the nature and quality of formal and informal communications within an organization

 + 

 + 

 + 

Implementation climate

 • Relative priority

Individuals’ shared perception of the importance of the implementation within the organization

 + 

 + 

 + 

 • Incentives and rewards

Extrinsic incentives such as goal-sharing awards, performance reviews, promotions, and raises in salary, and less tangible incentives such as increased stature or respect

 + / − 

 + / − 

 + / − 

 • Goals and feedback

The degree to which goals are clearly communicated, acted upon, and fed back to staff, and alignment of that feedback with goals

 + 

 + 

 + 

Readiness for implementation

 • Available resources

The level of resources dedicated for implementation and ongoing operations, including money, training, education, physical space, and time

 + / − 

 + / − 

 + / − 

 • Access to knowledge and information

Ease of access to digestible information and knowledge about the intervention and how to incorporate it into work tasks

 + / − 

 + / − 

 + / − 

Outer setting

 • Patient needs and resources

The extent to which patients’/community members’ needs, as well as facilitators and barriers to meet those needs, are accurately known and prioritized by the organization

 + / − 

 + / − 

 + / − 

 • Cosmopolitanism

The degree to which an organization is networked with other external organizations (external networks, partners)

 + 

 + 

 + 

 • External policies and mandates

External strategies to spread interventions, including policy and regulations, external mandates, recommendations and guidelines, pay-for-performance, collaboratives, and public or benchmark reporting

 + 

 + 

 + 

  1.  +  = facilitator to implementation. −  = barrier to implementation. + / −  = both facilitator and barrier