Global NCD Alliance Forum 2025: Post-Forum Report

The NCD Alliance, in partnership with local host organisation Rwanda NCD Alliance, in collaboration with the Rwanda Ministry of Health, Rwanda Biomedical Centre, and with thanks to a strategic partnership with The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, convened the 4th Global NCD Alliance Forum from 13 to 15 February 2025. Organised in Kigali, Rwanda, to highlight the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa and Rwanda’s public health reforms to reduce them. This meeting constituted many firsts: it was the first time that the NCDA co-hosted its flagship event with a local NCD Alliance; the first time the Forum was hosted in partnership with a national government; and the first time that the Forum convened in sub-Saharan Africa, following three previous, successful global Forums, all held in Sharjah, UAE.

Organised under the banner Leadership on NCDs Towards 2025 & Beyond, the Forum brought together the NCD movement, convening over 700 delegates from 90 countries to strategise, coordinate, and unite ahead of the 4th UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health (HLM4) in New York. This Post-Forum report provides a comprehensive account of its outcomes and impact. 

It is also accompanied by the 2025 Forum Snapshot, which offers a more condensed and visual overview of the event.