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Civil Society Resource Library
Discover practical tools to inform & inspire you.
Discover practical tools to inform & inspire you.
To showcase NCD civil society efforts in bridging the gap on NCDs, and to coincide with the third Global NCD Alliance Forum 2020 taking place in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, the NCD Alliance has developed the ‘NCD Atlas - Bridging the Gap on NCDs through Civil Society Action: Initiatives of National and Regional NCD Alliances’ publication.
This discussion paper outlines the gaps in the first decade of the NCD response. Calling on the experience of NCD Alliance’s global network of people living with NCDs, advocates, campaigners and experts collected via several surveys, as well as the latest data from the World Health Organization and peer reviewed literature, the following pages identify what has been lost in translation of the global targets for NCD reduction and describe the major barriers to meaningful progress.
This NCD Civil Society Compass presents the outcomes of an analysis of the major gaps in the first decade of the noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) response and potential actions for civil society to bridge these gaps and accelerate progress. The gaps are outlined in full in the companion document Bridging the Gap on NCDs: from global promises to local progress and pinpoint the major barriers to meaningful progress, based on opinion surveys of the NCD Alliance network and drawing on WHO data and peer reviewed research.
This social media toolkit provides tips on how to use social platforms during the Global NCDA Forum 2020 as well as sample messages, key hashtags and accounts to follow.
The India Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs was developed as a part of the Healthy India Alliance's (HIA) partnership with the NCD Alliance drawing on the Our Views, Our Voices initiative to promote meaningful involvement of people living with NCDs in the NCD response, at the subnational, national and global levels.
This briefing illustrates that actions taken around the world can bring some quick wins for health. Local, national and regional air pollution policies not only benefit air quality in cities, but also have important and immediate health co-benefits and are important for mitigating global climate change in the longer-term.
The World Alzheimer Report 2019: Attitudes to dementia analyses findings of the world’s largest survey on attitudes to dementia, as well as expert essays and case studies from across the world.
From promises to progress on Health for All: Open Letter to Governments ahead of the UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage, calling them for greater commitment and leadership on NCDs, on UHC and on SDGs.