ACT Health Promotion launched the Civil Society NCD Status Report for Brazil on 9 April at the 4th Intersectorial Forum on the Fight Against NCDs organised by the Public Health Institute. The report was supported through NCD Alliance’s NCD Advocacy Institute Accelerator Programme and is intended to stimulate government and relevant stakeholder action on NCDs.

The report analised progress against the Health Promotion axis of Brasil’s 2011-2022 Strategic Action Plan to tackle NCDs. Secondary data was analised for the period between 2011 and 2017 from VIGITEL, a telephone based survey conducted annually part of the Surveillance System for Risk and Protection Factors for NCDs. The report notes with concern the increase in prevalence of overweight (from 48.5% to 54%) and obesity (15.8% to 18.9%) and harmful use of alcohol (from 17% to 19.1%).

The report makes specific recommendations according to each indicator analised, such as the adoption of front-of-pack nutrition labeling, and fiscal policies such as taxes increasing for non-healthy products, including tobacco, alcohol, sugar beverages and ultraprocessed food. The report urges the national adoption of the 2011-2022 Strategic Action Plan as well as other measures to guarantee a healthy population.

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NCDs Prevention & Control, capacity development, ACT+ Brazil

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Building and sustaining civil society coalitions for effective NCD advocacy

19th January 2024

The main objective of this training is to develop and strengthen the skills and knowledge of advocates and NCD alliances in coalition building to achieve advocacy goals and objectives. The training will leverage existing Advocacy Institute resources regarding building effective alliances as well as strategic advocacy planning. The training will allow for fruitful experience sharing between participants navigating within different national and regional contexts.
The moment for caring: How can NCD Alliance members build momentum ahead of the Global Week for Action?

22nd June 2023

This workshop brought together and mobilised roughly 75 members of the NCD Alliance network as we campaign together towards the annual Global Week for Action campaign, with the 2023 theme of Bridging the NCD care gap. It provided an overview of the Universal Health Coverage advocacy landscape, explored members’ current advocacy efforts towards closing the NCD care gap and achieving UHC and how they are adapting GW4A UHC Advocacy Priorities and Asks to support their work in country and provided member-led guidance on ways to carry out advocacy campaigning adapted to local contexts and aimed at key stakeholder groups. It combined the audiences of the three Peer Learning Advocacy Networks (PLANs) and the Advocacy Institute participating alliances.
Digital practical guide to advocacy will strengthen civil society action for noncommunicable diseases

11th May 2023

NCDA has launched a digital version of its Practical Guide to Strategic Advocacy Planning that includes videos, tools and case studies to support civil society action for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).
Grant Writing and Project Management - Session 3

24th January 2023

This virtual training aimed to introduce alliances in the Advocacy Institute seed programme to project cycle management and grant proposal writing practices to efficiently and timely respond to funding opportunities when they arise. Session 3 focused on project implementation, specifically the delivery phase. It will introduce theory, tools and templates for effective work management and team communication. We will also discuss project evaluation and closure, with a focus on sustainability.
Grant Writing and Project Management - Session 2

20th December 2022

This virtual training aimed to introduce alliances in the Advocacy Institute seed programme to project cycle management and grant proposal writing practices to efficiently and timely respond to funding opportunities when they arise. Session 2 focused on project planning, specifically the inception phase. It covered the key preparations for work plans, resources, and staff that need to be made during the planning period. It also focused on defining key outcomes, outputs, and criteria of success and the monitoring and evaluation systems for tracking work progress.

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