Cary Adams, CEO UICC and Chair NCD Alliance

Caribbean Civil Society Regional Preparatory Meeting, 6 June

The NCD Alliance & the Global NCDA Forum

Founded in 2009 - by UICC, IDF and WHF

Now 7 global federations / organisations

A network of 2,000+ member associations in 170 countries

Plus 29 national / 5 regional NCD alliances

A Unique Civil Society NetworkLeading the way to a world free of preventable NCDs

NCD Alliance: Who We Are

Global CommitmentUN High-Level Summit on NCDs and adoption of UN

Political Declaration on NCDs

2011

The Global Political Response to NCDs

Global CoordinationUN Task Force on NCDs

20132014

2015

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Global Action & Accountability

“25 by 25” NCD targets and Global Action Plan 2013-

2020

Post-2015 AgendaAdoption of UN Post-2015

Development Agenda

“The report underscores the face that as national progress has been insufficient and highly uneven, continued efforts are essential for achieving a world free of the avoidable burden of NCDs”

UN Secretary General Report, 2014

.But insufficient progress at national level....

Global NCD Alliance Forum

A Significant Opportunity

Growing network of national/regional alliances

Regional/National Alliances

EUROPE European Chronic Disease Alliance (ECDA)AFRICA Consortium for NCDs in sub-Saharan Africa (CNCD-Africa)CARRIBBEAN Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC)LATIN AMERICA Healthy Latin American Coalition (HLAC)

AUSTRALIA Australians for Global Action on NCDsBANGLADESH Non-Communicable Diseases Forum (NCD-F)CANADA Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of CanadaDENMARK Danish NCD AllianceETHIOPIA Ethiopian NCD ConsortiumFINLAND Finnish NCD AllianceGERMANY German NCD AllianceITALY Italian Wellness Alliance JAPAN Japan NCD AllianceKAZAKHSTAN Kazakhstan NCD AllianceKENYA NCD Alliance Kenya (NCDAK)MALAYSIA NCD Alliance MalaysiaMEXICO Mexico Salud-HableNEPAL NCD Alliance-NepalNIGERIA Nigerian NCD AllianceNORWAY Norwegian NCD AlliancePORTUGAL National NCD Alliance-Portugal RWANDA Rwanda NCD Alliance SLOVAKIA Slovak NCD AllianceSOUTH AFRICA South Africa NCD Alliance (SANCDA)SYRIA Syria NCD AllianceTANZANIA Tanzania NCD Alliance (TANCDA)UGANDA Uganda NCD Alliance (UNCDA)URUGUAY National Alliance for the Control of NCDsZANZIBAR Zanzibar National NCD Alliance (Z-NCDA)

Host: Friends of Cancer Patients (FOCP) and the NCD Alliance

Global NCD Alliance Forum 2015

Dates: 13-15 November 2015

Location: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Theme: NCD Advocacy and Accountability in the Post-2015 Era

Where is Sharjah?

Overview:

- First ever global forum to convene representatives from growing network of national and regional NCD alliances;

- Platform for knowledge exchange, capacity building, priority setting, and facilitating north-south and south-south cooperation.

Audience:

- 80+ national and regional NCD alliance representatives (3 per regional alliance; 2 per national alliance)

- 100 key NCD stakeholders from across sectors

Global NCD Alliance Forum

The forum objectives are (1):

•To convene the network of national/regional NCD alliances for the first

time to share experiences, lessons learnt, challenges, priorities and

good practice in joint NCD advocacy efforts and multi-sectoral

partnerships;

•To strengthen the capacity of national/regional NCD alliances in

organizational priority areas of need for optimal functioning and effective

advocacy;

•To stimulate cross-country (both South-South and North-South)

networking and collaboration in NCD advocacy;

Global NCD Alliance Forum

The forum objectives are (2):

•To develop common advocacy objectives for national/regional action,

aligned with existing global NCD commitments (e.g. UN Political

Declaration and Global NCD Action Plan, Outcomes of the UN NCD

Review and Assessment, Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals);

•To develop advocacy objectives for national/regional alliances’

contribution towards agreed global NCD advocacy priorities;

•To generate interest and promote high quality applications for the forum

follow-up NCD Alliance grant program.

Global NCD Alliance Forum

Global NCD Alliance Forum

Some Questions to be answered:

•Organisational development. What do civil society organisations

and their NCD alliances need to function optimally and enable

effective and sustainable NCD advocacy efforts?

•Twinning – collaborations for success. How can collaborations

between alliances maximize their advocacy impact?

•Advocacy and accountability – driving change and

demanding action. What are concrete examples, challenges, best

practices and opportunities in advocating for accountability; NCDs

as a priority issue; National NCD plans/targets and multi-sectoral

mechanisms

Provisional Programme:

Day 1

• site visits in Sharjah; welcome reception hosted by the King of Sharjah and his wife.

Day 2-3

• packed with plenary sessions, interactive workshops, and networking sessions.

• Workshops cover 3 themes: advocacy; organisationaldevelopment; and accountability.

• Focus will be on interactive sessions, with practical case studies, examples, good practice.

Global NCD Alliance Forum

Global NCD Alliance Forum

Preparations

1. Situational analysis of national and regional NCD alliances

2. Regional preparatory meetings

Preparations for the Forum

The objectives of the situational analysis are as follows:

•To be a participatory exercise between NCDA and national/regional NCD alliances, providing them with an opportunity to explain their plans and needs, and their ideas for how their development can be accelerated•To capture details of the range of organisational models and advocacy activities of national/regional NCD alliances•To assess the organizational and advocacy capacity of the current network of national/regional NCD alliances

Situational Analysis

•To analyse the main needs for support to inform NCDA’s capacity building and the agenda of the Global NCDA Forum•To identify key assets and opportunities for potential collaboration between countries including for South/South and North/South twinning partnerships•To identify key assets and opportunities for global advocacy on national/regional priorities for alliances•To Inform the development of the NCDA national strategy and the next strategic plan for NCDA

Situational Analysis

Objectives:

1. To share experiences, challenges, lessons learnt, best practices;

2. To stimulate a multisectoral approach to NCD prevention and control by fostering collaborations between CSOs and other key NCD stakeholders in the region;

3. To explore, nurture and support incipient national alliances;

4. To identify the regions main capacity building needs to inform the Global NCD Alliance Forum and other civil society strengthening initiatives.

Preparatory Meetings

5. Strengthening regional NCD advocacy capacity:- To map out NCD advocacy activities per country- To define NCD advocacy priorities for the region and

develop common objectives for national/regional action

- To stimulate regional collaboration in advocacy

Preparatory Meetings

Planned Regional Preparatory Meetings:

- Caribbean: 6 June, Barbados

- Latin America: 8 -10 June, Panama

- SEARO: 9 -10 July, India

- EMRO: TBC August, Egypt

- AFRO: October, Uganda

- WPRO: TBC

Preparations for the Forum

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Thank you!

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