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Civil Society Resource Library
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Pushing for Progress - Accountability Toolkit
NCD Background Information| 11th February 2020The Toolkit provides background on the concept of accountability to the NCD civil society community, and resources to support civil society monitoring initiatives. The 2020 Toolkit is an update from a previous version from 2013, which included a benchmarking tool that was used by several national and regional alliances to produce civil society status reports in the lead up the 2014 UN High-Level Review.
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Bridging the Gap on NCDs: From global promises to local progress - Discussion paper
Policy Briefs| 09th February 2020This discussion paper outlines the gaps in the first decade of the NCD response. Calling on the experience of NCD Alliance’s global network of people living with NCDs, advocates, campaigners and experts collected via several surveys, as well as the latest data from the World Health Organization and peer reviewed literature, the following pages identify what has been lost in translation of the global targets for NCD reduction and describe the major barriers to meaningful progress.
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Bridging the Gap - NCD Civil Society Compass
Tools & Guidance| 09th February 2020This NCD Civil Society Compass presents the outcomes of an analysis of the major gaps in the first decade of the noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) response and potential actions for civil society to bridge these gaps and accelerate progress. The gaps are outlined in full in the companion document Bridging the Gap on NCDs: from global promises to local progress and pinpoint the major barriers to meaningful progress, based on opinion surveys of the NCD Alliance network and drawing on WHO data and peer reviewed research.
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Social Media Toolkit - Global NCDA Forum 2020
Tools & Guidance| 06th February 2020This social media toolkit provides tips on how to use social platforms during the Global NCDA Forum 2020 as well as sample messages, key hashtags and accounts to follow.
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Meaningfully Involving People Living with NCDs
Tools & Guidance| 23rd October 2018This review by NCDA lays out some definitions of key concepts and explores what meaningful involvement of people living with NCDs currently looks like within Civil Society, Government, and Health Care Delivery.
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Campaign Fuel
Tools & Guidance| 27th June 2018This guide has been developed to help members of the NCD civil society community, such as NCD alliances, members and people living with NCDs, join the campaign to demand meaningful change in the lead up to the 2018 United Nations High-Level Meeting on NCDs.
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Social Media Basics
Tools & Guidance| 27th June 2018This guide has been developed to help members of the NCD civil society community begin their social media journey. It shares how strategic use of social media can generate large-scale meaningful change, and should be a crucial tool in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide.
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Mapping of NCD Civil Society Organisations in the WHO European Region
Tools & Guidance| 21st March 2018A vibrant civil society is an important contributor towards progress on NCD prevention and control. A mapping of civil society organisations (CSOs) working on NCDs in the WHO European Region was performed to offer a broad portrait of the state of civil society action on NCDs and inform efforts to strengthen civil society’s contributions. The mapping analysed data collected via an online survey of CSOs in addition to a series of in-depth interviews with civil society informants.