To support Member States in assessing their national progress and developing national multisectoral noncommunicable disease plans to scale up implementation of the strategic interventions laid out in the regional framework for action, the Regional Office, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Kuwait, organized a regional meeting on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases and risk factors in Kuwait city from 29 to 30 April 2013.
The Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases tasked WHO and Member States with developing action plans to implement the Political Declaration. During the Fifty-ninth session of the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean, held in Cairo, from 1 to 4 October 2012, Member States adopted resolution (EM/RC59/R.2), endorsing a regional ‘Framework for action to implement the United Nations Political Declaration on Noncommunicable Diseases’. The framework laid out key strategic interventions in four areas: governance, prevention and reduction of risk factors, surveillance monitoring and evaluation and health care.
The objectives of this meeting were to:
- review the progress made by Member States in implementing the key commitments included in the UN Political Declaration and the regional framework for action.
- identify constraints that impede progress and actions needed to address them.
- develop a network that will work collaboratively to promote noncommunicable diseases prevention and control and accelerate the implementation of the regional framework for action.
- discuss and agree on the monitoring framework to assess progress to be achieved leading to the 2014 UN General Assembly meeting on noncommunicable diseases.
- define areas where WHO technical support is needed to implement the regional framework.
Meeting report [194 KB]
Related documents
Framework for action to implement the United Nations Political Declaration on noncommunicable Diseases: annex to resolution EM/RC59/R.2
Arabic - English - French
NCD Global Monitoring Framework
Global action plan for the prevention and control of NCDs 2013-2020
EM/RC59/R.2 The Political Declaration of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases: commitments of Member States and the way forward
Arabic | French
To support Member States in assessing their national progress and developing national multisectoral noncommunicable disease plans to scale up implementation of the strategic interventions laid out in the regional framework for action, the Regional Office, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Kuwait, organized a regional meeting on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases and risk factors in Kuwait city from 29 to 30 April 2013.
The Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases tasked WHO and Member States with developing action plans to implement the Political Declaration. During the Fifty-ninth session of the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean, held in Cairo, from 1 to 4 October 2012, Member States adopted resolution (EM/RC59/R.2), endorsing a regional ‘Framework for action to implement the United Nations Political Declaration on Noncommunicable Diseases’. The framework laid out key strategic interventions in four areas: governance, prevention and reduction of risk factors, surveillance monitoring and evaluation and health care.
The objectives of this meeting were to:
- review the progress made by Member States in implementing the key commitments included in the UN Political Declaration and the regional framework for action.
- identify constraints that impede progress and actions needed to address them.
- develop a network that will work collaboratively to promote noncommunicable diseases prevention and control and accelerate the implementation of the regional framework for action.
- discuss and agree on the monitoring framework to assess progress to be achieved leading to the 2014 UN General Assembly meeting on noncommunicable diseases.
- define areas where WHO technical support is needed to implement the regional framework.
Meeting report [194 KB]
Related documents
Framework for action to implement the United Nations Political Declaration on noncommunicable Diseases: annex to resolution EM/RC59/R.2
Arabic - English - French
NCD Global Monitoring Framework
Global action plan for the prevention and control of NCDs 2013-2020
EM/RC59/R.2 The Political Declaration of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases: commitments of Member States and the way forward
Arabic | French
