Civil Society Resource Library

NCD Civil Society Compass - The leadership gap

Tools & Guidance
(65.95kB) | 02nd March 2020

Each card in this set briefly focuses on one of the five gaps identified as priority areas of action for civil society to help to bridge the gap on NCDs: Leadership, Accountability, Investment, Care, and Community Engagement. This card introduces the leadership gap, provides an overview of what the leadership gap is about, and proposes actions for civil society to consider taking in order to accelerate progress ahead of 2025 target deadlines.

regional and national advocacy
Pushing for Progress - Accountability Toolkit

NCD Background Information
| 11th February 2020

The 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.
NCD Atlas - Bridging the Gap on NCDs through Civil Society Action

National & Regional Action
| 10th February 2020

To showcase NCD civil society efforts in bridging the gap on NCDs, and to coincide with the third Global NCD Alliance Forum 2020 taking place in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, the NCD Alliance has developed the ‘NCD Atlas - Bridging the Gap on NCDs through Civil Society Action: Initiatives of National and Regional NCD Alliances’ publication.

regional and national advocacy
Bridging the Gap on NCDs: From global promises to local progress - Discussion paper

Policy Briefs
| 09th February 2020

This 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.

Global NCDA Forum
Bridging the Gap - NCD Civil Society Compass

Tools & Guidance
| 09th February 2020

This 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.

Global NCDA Forum
Social Media Toolkit - Global NCDA Forum 2020

Tools & Guidance
| 06th February 2020

This 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.

Global NCDA Forum
India Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs

Advocacy Materials
| 06th January 2020

The India Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs was developed as a part of the Healthy India Alliance's (HIA) partnership with the NCD Alliance drawing on the Our Views, Our Voices initiative to promote meaningful involvement of people living with NCDs in the NCD response, at the subnational, national and global levels.

Our Views, Our Voices, NCD voices, Advocacy Agenda
Clean Air Now

Policy Briefs
| 03rd December 2019

This briefing illustrates that actions taken around the world can bring some quick wins for health. Local, national and regional air pollution policies not only benefit air quality in cities, but also have important and immediate health co-benefits and are important for mitigating global climate change in the longer-term.

air pollution, climate crisis, planetary health

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