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Abstract: To ensure sustainability of the activities that enhance feeding of animal source foods (ASF) to preschool children, it is important that the processes and products of the ENAM project become institutionalized in the relevant government ministries. This research brief provides an analytical description of the collaboration between the ENAM project and relevant government ministries in Ghana and lessons for institutionalization to enhance ASF feeding to preschool children. The findings show that a high level of interactive participatory collaboration has been achieved between the ENAM project and the relevant government ministries at different hierarchies and at multiple stages of the intervention. The initial impact of the intervention is positive with regards to poverty reduction and enhanced ASF consumption, as well as the enthusiasm of the relevant government ministries. However, the collaborations have not yet enabled the ministries to reach a point of self-mobilisation for sustainable institutionalization of the ENAM interventions. We Outline further efforts and activities that are required to be undertaken by the ENAM project to enhance its institutionalization in relevant government ministries.