Our Views, Our Voices [1] is an initiative by the NCD Alliance and people living with NCDs that seeks to invite people from all over the world living with a range of different NCDs to share their views, take action, and drive change.
We are consulting people living with NCDs from across the world until the 31st of August, 2017, to identify the common issues faced, main recommendations for action, and to understand how people living with NCDs would like to be meaningfully involved in the NCD response.
This widespread consultation will result in the Advocacy Agen [2]da of People Living with NCDs [2].
Help build the Advocacy Agenda of People living with NCDs by:
1 - Hosting a community conversation [3]
A community conversation is an in-person meeting of people living with NCDs to explore their main challenges, key recommendations for decision makers, and how they would like to be involved and take action. The results of these conversations will feed into the development of the Advocacy Agenda, and they can also be used by organisations to guide programme, strategy, and advocacy development at local level.
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Please refer to this [5]community conversation guide [5] for all the resources you need to hold a community conversation including a discussion guide for facilitators, sample agenda, social media prompts and much more. Help spread the word by sharing this guide with your networks!
2 - Promoting the online consultation
Share this online consultation among your contacts and networks of people living with NCDs. For the purposes of this consultation, people living with NCDs include those people who are currently living with a NCD, who have had a NCD in the past, and those who are closely connected to someone with a NCD – such as relatives, close friends and care partners (sometimes also referred to as carers or caregivers).
3 - Amplifying advocacy messages
Like, share, and promote the Our Views, Our Voices [1] initiative using the hashtag #NCDvoices.