Description

This Strategic Plan 2017-2021 will underpin the work of the Coalition and shape the contribution of civil society to non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention and control in the Caribbean over the next five years.  The Plan will guide the strategic direction of the HCC at a pivotal time in its development. The Plan is also timely from a regional public health perspective, as the Caribbean this year marks the 10-year anniversary of the seminal Port of Spain Declaration on NCDs.

The Plan has five strategic pillars: accountability, advocacy, capacity development, communication, and sustainability. These five strategic pillars and their associated high level objectives which provide the basis for the development of annual operational plans with specific outputs, deliverables (products and services), activities, inputs, and resource needs, as well as a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework.

The HCC 2017-2021 Strategic Plan charts a course for the work of the Coalition in the coming five years. The streamlining and prioritising of key actions will lay the foundation for HCC’s contribution to the region’s achievement of national, regional, and international NCD targets, reduction of inequities, and, ultimately, reduction in NCD-related premature mortality, as we navigate through the post-2015 development era.

Directors of the HCC on the occasion of the launch and release of the HCC 2017-2021 Strategic Plan pointed out that “the Plan will serve as the blueprint and instrument for continuing the process of bringing about a “wellness revolution” as called for at the first  meeting of the HCC leading to slowing of the tsunami of NCDs in the Caribbean”.