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Statements, Submissions & Briefings

Key advocacy documents to support the NCD Alliance campaigns in global fora.

This section lists documents prepared by NCD Alliance team for WHO World Health Assemblies, Executive Boards and Regional Committee Meetings, UN NCD Summit and Reviews, Sustainable Development Goals, and other multilateral & bilateral campaigns.

Statements, Submissions & Briefings

  • Statement on NCDs in Sustainable Development

    Statement on NCDs in Sustainable Development

    WHO Regional Committee Meetings
     |  07th September 2015

    NCD Alliance Statement WHO SEARO Regional Meeting, 7-11 September 2015, Dili, Timor-Leste. Statement on NCDs in Sustainable Development.

  • Calendar: UNGA 70th Session

    Calendar: UNGA 70th Session

    UN Sustainable Development Goals
    (108.93kB)  |  02nd September 2015

    70th Session of the UN General Assembly Side Events and Activities.

  • UN Summit 2015: Advocacy brief

    UN Summit 2015: Advocacy brief

    UN Sustainable Development Goals
    (184.54kB)  |  01st September 2015

    Advocacy Brief prepared by NCD Alliance for use by NCD civil society ahead of the UN Sustainable Development Summit 2015.

  • NCD Alliance response to the WHO Working Group on Financing for NCDs

    NCD Alliance response to the WHO Working Group on Financing for NCDs

    Consultation Responses and Comments
    (1.34MB)  |  01st August 2015

    The NCD Alliance welcomes the opportunity to provide comments on the Interim Report of the WHO Working Group on Financing for NCDs, Financing national NCD responses in the post-2015 era. These reports, and the efforts of the Working Group, are necessary to articulate actions to urgently scale up resources of all types for NCDs to levels commensurate with the burden of disease.

  • NCD Alliance Independent Review 2015

    NCD Alliance Independent Review 2015

    (442.13kB)  |  27th July 2015

    This independent review of the NCD Alliance’s performance, as well as its governance and organizational arrangements, aims to inform strategic next steps and to ensure its governance is cohesive and fit for purpose to effectively achieve its aspirations.

  • Health in Post-2015 NGO Coalition

    Health in Post-2015 NGO Coalition

    UN Sustainable Development Goals
    (651.83kB)  |  22nd July 2015

    Combined comments submitted by members of the Health in Post-­‐2015 NGO Coalition and other civil society organizations on the final draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit to adopt the Post-­‐2015 Development Agenda.

  • Increase in Tobacco Taxes Endorsed as Key Strategy To Finance Sustainable Development

    Increase in Tobacco Taxes Endorsed as Key Strategy To Finance Sustainable Development

    Open Letters & Calls to Action
    (1.89MB)  |  17th July 2015

    July 16, 2015 -­ ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – At the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Heads of State and Ministers of Finance, Foreign Affairs and Development, along with global experts, have endorsed increasing tobacco taxes as a key strategy to reduce tobacco consumption and the global burden of non-­‐communicable diseases (NCDs) and help finance sustainable development. The NCD Alliance, the Framework Convention Alliance, The Union, World Lung Foundation and the Campaign for Tobacco-­‐Free Kids today applaud this decision, which lends weight to the critical importance of countries raising tobacco taxes.

  • Comments to the WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity interim report

    Comments to the WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity interim report

    WHO World Health Assemblies
     |  25th June 2015

    NCD Alliance comments to the WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity interim report.