Join the NCD Movement!

Noncommunicable diseases, or NCDs, matter to everyone. They include some of the world's most common chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease (heart disease), stroke, cancer, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, and mental health conditions. An estimated 1.7 billion people (1 in 5 people) around the world live with at least one NCD and they are responsible for around 71% of global deaths.

The NCD movement is unified by the cross-cutting nature of common risk factors, including unhealthy diets, alcohol, tobacco use, physical inactivity and air pollution – and shared health system solutions to tackle NCDs.

Our community includes member organisations addressing NCDs and their risk factors, national and regional NCD alliances and people living with NCDs.

NCD Alliance is committed to leaving no one behind. For us, every voice counts, especially that of people living with NCDs. Together we work to accelerate real change on NCDs to promote health, protect rights and save lives.

Global Week for Action on NCDs

Everyone has a role to play in reducing the NCD burden. The Global Week for Action on NCDs aims to unite efforts each year around a specific theme. Actions can be big or small - the power of the Global Week for Action comes through collaboration across countries and sectors towards a common goal: reducing preventable death and illness and increasing health and equity around the world.

Join our campaign in 2022!

People living with NCDs need to be heard

In recognition of the central role of people living with NCDs in the response, the NCD Alliance developed the Our Views, Our Voices initiative to promote the meaningful involvement of people with lived experience of NCDs.

This means supporting and enabling individuals to share their views in order to take action and drive change. Our commitment is to put people at the centre.

#ActOnNCDs and join the conversation on social media

#ActOnNCDs is the hashtag that unites our cause. #NCDVoices is the hashtag for people living with NCDs.

Become a Member or a Partner

NCDA members and partners access a range of benefits designed to enhance visibility, networking, and information-sharing to support their work. Joining gives you access to various channels and platforms for deeper engagement between partners and allies working on similar themes or sharing similar challenges, but also to a number of thematic, interest-based or regional sub-networks of the NCD community.

If your organisation shares a common interest in improving lives of people living with NCDs globally, we would be pleased to have you join us. Learn more about the different opportunities offered by each programme.

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Resources

Together We Are Stronger - Become a Member of the NCD Alliance

Do you want to join the NCD movement and ensure your priorities are represented globally at the highest level? Would you like to connect with NCD advocates and experts at regional and global level, and leverage opportunities for strategic and coordinated action? Are you ready to take your advocacy work to the next level?

NCDA membership, brochure
NCD Alliance Membership Criteria and Principles

NCDA's mission is to unite and strengthen our civil society network to stimulate collaborative action for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) through advocacy, accountability, capacity development and knowledge exchange.

NCDA membership
Shaping the health systems of the future: case studies and recommendations for integrated NCD care

This Guide developed in partnership with Lilly recommends ways to overcome barriers to integrated care: creating an enabling environment, training health care workers, developing people-centred approaches, capturing and using data, and ensuring effective governance and sustainability.

integrated care, NCDs, case studies
Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs

The Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs was built with the generous input of 1,893 people living with NCDs who took part in the Our Views, Our Voices consultation efforts. It provides a compass for NCD advocacy efforts and functions as a living document that captures the priorities of people living with NCDs. It is intended to guide and support efforts of key stakeholders to improve NCD prevention and control.

people living with NCDs, advocacy, UNHLM, national and regional alliances
NCD Atlas

The Atlas documents 38 case studies and programmes on a broad range of issues relating to access, awareness, accountability and advocacy, collected from national and regional NCD alliances around the world.

civil society, accountability, best practice
Ambitious SMART commitments to address NCDs, overweight and obesity

Make the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition count for all forms of malnutrition. The brief focuses on select SMART commitments which target overweight & obesity and nutrition-related NCDs.

SMART commitments, obesity, overweight, nutrition, malnutrition
Tackling noncommunicable diseases in workplace settings in LMICs

This report provides an overview of the current realities of NCDs and progress made to date in workplace health, particularly in LMICs. It sets out the challenges and opportunities to increase implementation in LMICs, offering recommendations for key stakeholders to create an environment within which workplace health can thrive, and a framework for action for employers.

workplaces