Building and expanding upon the Science, Practice and Policy Expert Dialogue of the 2021 RFS Annual Workshop, This brief focuses on a range of practical strategies to translate international agendas into field and policy programmes. Numerous high-level meetings and policy discussions occurred in 2021, and their associated action areas, goals and aspirations provide an important basis on which to coordinate action across global systems to ensure that ambition at the international level is sufficiently high to yield meaningful change, translating global commitments into national and local-level action.