Description

This landmark technical resource provides standards and guidance for systematically engaging people with lived experience in the co-creation, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and governance processes of all related policies, programmes and services. It recognises the importance of lived experience in advancing the NCD response and offers guidance to WHO and its Member States to operationalize meaningful involvement.

This publication spotlights five country alliances that have been supported by NCD Alliance to promote meaningful involvement of people living with NCDs. Thanks to NCDA’s partnership with Access Accelerated, the Our Views, Our Voices initiative has been implemented in Ghana, India, Kenya, Malaysia and Vietnam, in linkage with the Advocacy Institute programme. This publication aims to document how through this support, alliances have progressed in their work on meaningful involvement. It seeks to contribute to a growing knowledge base to support the implementation of the Global Charter on Meaningful Involvement of People Living with NCDs. Of course, there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach when it comes to meaningful involvement, and each country alliance has been on a journey that is unique to their context and suited to their decision-making processes. This publication distils country experiences of operationalizing meaningful involvement that can be helpful to other civil society organisations embarking on similar journeys.