On Tuesday, 19 September 2023, Access Accelerated, NCD Alliance, the World Bank, and the World Diabetes Foundation convened a closed-door high-level roundtable, “Integrating Health Financing to Achieve UHC and NCD SDG Targets,” as a parallel event to the opening of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly and the High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

 

Participants at the roundtable included representatives from national governments, the UN system, advocates with lived experience, NGOs, philanthropies, and the private sector.

 

This report summarizes the range of topics and thematic components of the discussion as the meeting moved through rounds of scene-setting introductory remarks, reviews of progress since the 1st Global Dialogue on Partnerships for Sustainable Financing for NCDs held in 2018, and forward-looking considerations of what is needed to ensure productive outcomes from the 2nd Global Financing Dialogue on NCDs (2GFD) in 2024.

 

The meeting sought to encourage and build up further cross-sector dialogues to share success stories of NCD investment within national UHC strategies; Present innovative solutions to advance NCD care and investment; Discuss how to bridge existing gaps around NCD financing in the next year in the lead-up to the 2nd Global Financing Dialogue on NCDs.