The Global NCD Agenda for Resilience and Recovery from COVID-19
"A global agenda to respond to today's crises and prepare for tomorrow's threats."
The Global Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) Agenda for Resilience and Recovery from COVID-19 outlines solutions to ensure all countries can recover stronger and embrace a safer, healthier future. The recommendations are intended to support leaders and decision-makers to step up equitable, cost-effective policy action and investment to strengthen population health and build more resilient health systems. This includes decision-makers in national governments, across all ministries and departments, leadership of public services including health systems, health workforce, international institutions, civil society, research institutions, philanthropy and the private sector working to improve health and sustainable development.
The Agenda outlines 12 recommendations grouped under 3 pillars:
Pillar 1 - Governance: Redefine priorities and power and measure what matters
- Include NCDs in COVID-19 response, recovery and preparedness plans
- Involve the community in decision-making
- Rethink the investment case for NCDs, putting a value on security and equity
- Redefine how health security and pandemic preparedness is measured
- Redress conflicts of interest and power imbalances
Pillar 2 - Prevention: Prioritize health as a path to preparedness
- Pivot to prevention
- Combat inequalities through better social protection
Pillar 3 - Health systems: Fairer and fit for the future
- Integrate NCD services into the pandemic response and beyond
- Strengthen health services and primary care at the community level
- Anchor innovations in data and deployment of digital technologies
- Resolve bottlenecks in supply chains
- Facilitate and support local production of essential NCD medicines