A nutrition contextual analysis considers the key factors affecting nutrition in a country and how stakeholders are assessing and addressing those factors. It should consider not only nutritional status but also other related needs and expectations, so as to support setting priorities for a policy, strategy or plan. This tool is an outline for a contextual analysis and includes the main pieces: nutrition situational analysis, policy framework analysis and stakeholder analysis and mapping. It offers guidance on how to structure one of these contextual analyses and offers resources for obtaining key information.