Table 1 Coding framework

Deductive codes, based on the World Health Organization gender assessment tool [20] and the Food and Agriculture Organization gender mainstreaming framework [21, 24]

Nutrition and the life cycle

Obesity and nutrition

Income generating activities and spending income on nutrition

Local (food) culture and gender

Rights-based perspective related to gender and nutrition

Targeting in nutrition

Inductive codes, identified during thematic analysis of the transcripts

Gender specific needs and disease risk

The need to focus on other 'vulnerable' groups

Current considerations of gender in policy

Barriers to the inclusion of gender

Enablers to the inclusion of gender