International Strategic Dialogue on Noncommunicable Diseases and Sustainable Development Goals

INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC DIALOGUE ON NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES (NCDs) AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)

Accra, Ghana - 12 April 2022, 09:00-12:30 GMT

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Dr Matshidiso Moeti

Regional Director for Africa, ​​​​​​​World Health Organization

Invitation message from the Regional Director

I have the pleasure to invite you to participate in the International Strategic Dialogue Meeting on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This high-level meeting, co-organized by the Government of Ghana, the Government of Norway and the World Health Organization will take place on Tuesday, 12 April 2022 in Accra, Ghana. The meeting will be in a hybrid format, in-person and virtual, as appropriate to country and travel context.

The meeting will bring leaders across WHO Member States; Heads of State and Government, business, and civil society to raise the priority accorded to the prevention and control of NCDs within the national SDG response in low- and middle-income countries. It will allow for an exchange of knowledge and ideas as well as raising the political visibility of Heads of State and Government who are providing a strategic leadership role in the prevention and control of NCDs to a global level, in particular in Africa.  

The International Strategic Dialogue on NCDs and SDGs is a follow up to the commitments made by governments in Paragraph 17 of the  Political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases to scale up efforts “to provide strategic leadership for the prevention and control of NCDs by promoting greater policy coherence and coordination through whole-of-government and health-in-all-policies approaches and by engaging stakeholders in an appropriate, coordinated, comprehensive and integrated, bold whole-of-society action and response”.

This meeting is a great opportunity especially for Africa to revisit the prioritization of NCD prevention and control in the national response to the SDGs in our countries, which has been held back by the outset of the Covid19 pandemic.

It is expected at the end of the International Strategic Dialogue to establish an Informal International Heads of State and Government Group (NCD Presidential Group) on the Prevention and Control of NCDs and; to launch an International NCD Compact 2022-2030 (living document).

I look forward to your in-person or virtual participation.

Thank you.

​​​​​​​Why do we need an International Strategic Dialogue?

In the Political Declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (A/RES/73/2), governments committed to scale up efforts “as Heads of  State and Government, to provide strategic leadership for the prevention and control of NCDs by promoting greater policy coherence and coordination through whole-of-government and health-in-all-policies approaches and by engaging stakeholders in an appropriate, coordinated, comprehensive and integrated, bold whole-of-society action and response”

Raise priority

Raise the priority of the prevention and control of NCDs in national SDG responses in low and middle-income countries.

Engage

Unite actors and partners to exchange knowledge on how we achieve the SDG 3 targets, particularly SDGs 3.4 (NCDs) and 3.8 (UHC)

Leadership

Raise the political visibility of Heads of State playing a global leadership role in the prevention and control of NCDs

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SPEAKERS


Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo

President of Ghana

Jonas Gahr Store

Prime Minister of Norway

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Director General, World Health Organization

Dr Matshidiso Moeti

Regional Director for Africa, ​​​​​​​World Health Organization

DRAFT AGENDA - INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC DIALOGUE, 12 April 2022


Ghana National Roundtable on NCDs

Fiesta Royal Hotel, Accra, Ghana | 11 April 2022, 09AM - 2PM

Zoom Webinar password: NSD#22ACC

THE NATIONAL EVENT


The strategic roundtable meeting is the national event which seeks to bring together national partners to raise the profile of the NCD agenda within the SDGs in Ghana, and to exchange knowledge and ideas with key stakeholders from the public and private sectors, the academic and business world, and international development experts. The session will be organized to also foster the emergence of additional ideas to “progressively cover all people by 2030 with quality essential health services and quality, safe, effective, affordable and essential medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and health technologies for the prevention, screening, early diagnosis and treatment of NCDs”, within the framework of the SDGs and the roadmap for Ghana in the achievement of Universal Health Coverage.

The outcome for this round table will be to Jointly develop an NCD Coalition Framework 2021-2030, for Ghana outcomes, outputs and indicators, and define roles and responsibilities to drive the Framework forward and commitment of support from partners

DOWNLOADABLE ASSETS


Programme

Concept note

DOWNLOADABLE ASSETS


International Strategic Dialogue - Program brochure

International Strategic Dialogue - Global NCDs action plan

International Strategic Dialogue - Concept Note

12 Abril 2022
In the Political Declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (A/RES/73/2), governments committed to scale up efforts “as Heads of  State and Government, to provide strategic leadership for the prevention and control of NCDs by promoting greater policy coherence and coordination through whole-of-government and health-in-all-policies approaches and by engaging stakeholders in an appropriate, coordinated, comprehensive and integrated, bold whole-of-society action and response”