Who We Are
Who We Are
We are an alliance of four international federations uniting a network of over 2000 organizations representing the four main NCDs outlined in the World Health Organization’s 2008-2013 Action Plan for NCDs – cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory disease. These conditions share common risk factors (including tobacco use, physical inactivity and unhealthy diets) and also share common solutions, which provide a mutual platform for collaboration and joint advocacy. By working together from the global to the local level in a network of over 2000 organizations, we bring a united voice to the global campaign for non-communicable diseases.
Our long term objectives include:
- NCD / disease national plans for all
- A tobacco free world
- Improved lifestyles
- Strengthened health systems
- Global access to affordable and good quality medicines and technologies 6. Human rights for people with NCDs
What We Do
The NCD Alliance uses targeted advocacy and outreach to ensure that NCDs are recognized as a major cause of poverty, a barrier to economic development and a global emergency. This is done by working with a wide range of partners and organizations, speaking with a united voice at key international meetings, mobilizing the 2000 organizations on our network, producing the latest policy work on NCDs and building the evidence base, convening expert working groups on a range of topics, and pressing governments to recognize that NCDs are a global development priority requiring an urgent response.
The NCD Alliance works with many partners that share a common interest in improving the lives of people living with NCDs and addressing their risk factors.
Comments
“The NCD Alliance is a special political asset…which can and should be a vital partner to the UN leadership”. - Dr. Peter Piot, Director, LSHTM
“It was a stroke of genius for the major NCD NGOs to form the Alliance. When the history of these time is written and the credits given for the Summit, the name of the NCD Alliance will be writ large”. - Sir George Alleyne, Director-Emiritus, PAHO
“The NCD Alliance, representing 880 member organisations in 170 countries, is a positive initiative for cooperation among international nongovernmental organisations to achieve common goals for NCDs.”
- Lancet NCD Action Group
History
The NCD Alliance was launched in May 2009 at an event in Geneva titled Health and Development: Held back by Non-Communicable diseases. The NCD Alliance has been joined by many additional partners since its launch - please visit the links below for more information.
Partnership Groups
The UN Summit Partners Group
The Common Interest Group
The NCD Alliance Supporters Group
NCDA Statement on Private Sector Funding and Partnerships