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Civil Society Resource Library

  • Pocket Guide: Building Support for your Advocacy

    Pocket Guide: Building Support for your Advocacy

    Tools & Guidance
     |  30th January 2024

    This pocket guide is intended to help identify and approach relevant stakeholders to become partners and allies in achieving NCD advocacy goals and objectives.

  • Building and sustaining civil society coalitions for effective NCD advocacy

    Building and sustaining civil society coalitions for effective NCD advocacy

    Webinars
     |  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.

  • OVOV/AI training: Introduction to Community-led monitoring

    OVOV/AI training: Introduction to Community-led monitoring

    Tools & Guidance
     |  05th December 2023

    This joint Advocacy Institute and Our Views, Our Voices training on community-led monitoring (CLM) was delivered by NCD Alliance to increase knowledge and awareness of CLM, its processes and practices and how it can be applied in the context of NCDs to strengthen both NCD services and prevention.

  • Walk the Talk webinar #1: Setting the scene by putting people living with noncommunicable diseases at the centre

    Walk the Talk webinar #1: Setting the scene by putting people living with noncommunicable diseases at the centre

    Webinars
     |  30th November 2023

    This NCD Alliance webinar familiarized the NCD community and Global Charter endorsers with the WHO Framework for Meaningful Engagement of People Living with NCDs and Mental Health and Neurological Conditions; demonstrated how the Global Charter and WHO Framework align with national, regional and global advocacy priorities for NCD Prevention and Control; and demonstrated the importance of a multisectoral approach to the meaningful involvement of people living with NCDs.

  • Introductory Guide on Community-led Monitoring of NCD Services

    Introductory Guide on Community-led Monitoring of NCD Services

    Tools & Guidance
     |  30th November 2023

    CLM is a community-driven, grassroots accountability mechanism used by affected communities to assess the accessibility and quality of health services. Given that CLM is an emerging area of interest and an underdeveloped tool for improving NCD services, NCDA has developed this introductory guide to present the principles, elements and processes of CLM, as they relate to NCDs.

  • Advocacy Institute 2020-2023: Achievements Report

    Advocacy Institute 2020-2023: Achievements Report

    Advocacy Materials
     |  07th November 2023

    This report examines the achievements of national and regional NCD alliances during the second phase of the Advocacy Institute (2020-2023).

  • Template Letter: Write to your government about Universal Health Coverage

    Template Letter: Write to your government about Universal Health Coverage

    Advocacy Materials
     |  22nd August 2023

    Reaching out to your government representatives is an effective way to help accelerate action on NCDs and Universal Health Coverage, making clear what you want and why it’s needed. We’ve created this template letter that can be adapted to your context and organisation and will help align civil society messaging. We are stronger together!

  • The moment for caring: How can NCD Alliance members build momentum ahead of the Global Week for Action?

    The moment for caring: How can NCD Alliance members build momentum ahead of the Global Week for Action?

    Webinars
     |  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.