The World Health Assembly has approved the extension of the Global Coordination Mechanism (GCM) for Noncommunicable Diseases until 2030 and recommended a number of measures to improve its effectiveness.
Delegates recommended that WHO develop, in consultation with Member States and non-State actors, a workplan for the delivery of the five functions for which the GCM has responsibility. The plan will include a clear vision, a robust results framework, performance and outcome indicators and clarity on how the mechanism will carry out its functions in a way that is integrated with WHO’s ongoing work on NCDs. The plan will be submitted to the World Health Assembly in 2022, after consideration by the Executive Board.
Practical tools for sharing knowledge and disseminating information about innovative activities from a variety of stakeholders working at country level will be developed. In addition, a global stock-take of action from various stakeholders at country level will be developed, together with guidance to Member States on engagement with non-State actors, including on the prevention and management of potential risks; advice will be provided to civil society on how to develop national multi-stakeholder responses to NCDs and hold governments to account; and the capacity of people living with NCDs to participate in the co-creation of whole-of-society responses to NCDs will be strengthened.
The above-noted approval and recommendations were reached following consideration by Assembly delegates of the mid-point evaluation of the WHO Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases 2013-2030, and the final evaluation of the GCM and options paper.
The GCM was established in 2014.
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