Together with other civil society organisations, NCD Alliance has developed recommendations for health in the New Urban Agenda, which is to be adopted at Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador this October.

Over half the world's population now lives in urban areas, with increasing urbanisation being associated with exposure to air pollution, poor nutrition, and physical inactivity, as well as other health risks.

The New Urban Agenda will define priorities for sustainable urbanisation over the next two decades, and presents an opportunity to ensure that health priorities are integrated into city planning.

By 2050, 66% of the world's population will live in urban areas. Currently, there is a great need for increased focus on health in the document.

The recommendations outline proposed text for inclusion in the Draft New Urban Agenda, together with annexed interventions and evidence to improve urban public health. The recommendations are being circulated to the Habitat III co-facilitators, and New York and Geneva Missions. 

Please sign on to the recommendations letter and disseminate among your networks.

To date the following organisations have signed on:

1. Aliança de Controle do Tabagismo, Brazil
2. Alzheimer's Disease International
3. American Heart Association
4. C3 Collaborating for Health
5. Cancer Aid Society, India
6. Danish NCD Alliance
7. Deutsche Allianz Nichtübertragbare Krankheiten DANK
8. District TB Centre, Angul, Government of Odisha Health and Family Welfare Department, India
9. European Public Health Alliance
10. Evangelical Social Action Forum, India
11. Forum of International Respiratory Societies
12. Friends of Cancer Patients, UAE
13. Fondacija Zdravljei srce (Foundation of Heart and Health), Bosnia and Herzegovina
14. Fundación Mídete, Mexico
15. Global Climate and Health Alliance
16. Health and Environment Alliance
17. HealthBridge Foundation of Canada
18. Healthy Caribbean Coalition
19. Innovative Canadians for Change (ICChange)
20. International Alliance of Women 
21. International Diabetes Federation
22. International Society for Physical Activity and Health
23. International Society of Urban Health
24. Institute of Alcohol Studies (UK)
25. IOGT International
26. ISGlobal (formerly ISGlobal and CREAL)
27. Kreftforiningen (Norwegian Cancer Society)
28. La Ciudad Verde
29. Low Carbon City Forum
30. National Centre of Disease Control, Libya
31. NCD Alliance (Global)
32. NCD Alliance Malawi
33. NCDFREE
34. New York Academy of Medicine
35. Pacific Health and Development Sciences, Inc.
36. Participatory Sanitation Development Initiative (PASDI)
37. Peaceful Roads, Niger
38. Plan UK
39. Smarter than Car
40. Spanish Heart Foundation
41. UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
42. Union for International Cancer Control
43. Universities for Health e.V., Germany
44. Walk21
45. Women Coalition Against Cancer in Malawi - WOCACA
46. World Cancer Research Fund International
47. World Heart Federation
48. Vital Strategies