The tool’s designers ranked the NSI categories on a scale of 1 – 8 (1 being the highest and 8 being the lowest) in terms of their potential impact in the three domains (agriculture, gender, and nutrition). Categories with a rank of 1-3 were designated as High, 4-6 as Med, and 7-8 as Low. See table to the right for more details on how this was done.

NSI Categories	Ag	Gender	Nutrition
Women's Decision Making over Production	1	1	6
Women's Access to Productive Resources	2	2	7
Women's Group Participation and Leadership	4	6	8
Women's Control over Use of Income and Expenditure	6	3	3
Women's Time Allocation	5	5	4
Improved Technologies	3	4	5
Access and Availability of Diverse Foods	8	8	1
Nutrition Social and Behavior Change	7	7	2