The ‘Global Charter on Meaningful Involvement of People Living with NCDs’, is based on the principle that people living with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) [1] – including care partners (also known as carers or care givers) – should be meaningfully involved in every step of decision-making that affects their lives.
The aim of the Global Charter is to have meaningful involvement of people living with NCDs [1] embedded into organisational practices and mobilises all actors such as governments, international partners, private sector [1] and civil society [1] organisations.
The Global Charter calls on organisations and institutions to publicly endorse the Charter – and commit to fundamental principles and ten core strategies. These strategies will enable the meaningful involvement of people living with NCDs in decision-making at all levels - from the first stages of design, implementation to monitoring and evaluation and scale-up of NCD policies, programmes and services.