| Strong policy commitment and leadership | Providing a legal mandate |
| Driving mainstreaming and leadership | |
| Broadening the themes | |
| Robust system | Embedding environmental appraisal |
| Integrating multiple goals | |
| Starting mainstreaming early | |
| Capacity and continuous skill development | Prioritising interdisciplinary skills |
| Installing networks of practice | |
| Maintaining expert capacity | |
| Shared knowledge, learning and engagement | Building an evidence base |
| Promoting organisational learning | |
| Engaging civil society | |
| Well-supported country systems | Building commitment and capacity |
| Making the economic case and engaging the private sector | |
| Disseminating effective and relevant tools |