International NCD action: building on the UN HLM

This page is intended to provide links to C3′s updates on the development of the global NCD framework since the UN High-level Meeting of September 2011, as called for in the Political Declaration (click here >>) adopted unanimously at the UN HLM.

For a list of key meetings and publications since the UN HLM, click here >>

Latest news

30 May: UN HLP report publication – The UN High-level Panel on the post-2015 development agenda has published its report, A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development (click here >>). for the report, and click here >> for a short C3 summary of the report).

27 May: World Health Assembly – WHO Member States unanimously adopted an Omnibus Resolution on NCDs (click here >>), including endorsing the Global Action Plan on NCDs 2013–2020, adopts the global monitoring framework, and agrees to develop a global coordination mechanism by the end of the year.

Updates to date (chronological order, most recent first). The periodic updates by C3 and the blogs  by C3 on the BMJ website, listed below, provide detailed information on each time period.

• 12 June 2013: C3 state-of-play update: click here >>
• 18 February 2013: C3 news alert update on the state of play on NCDs, MDGs and SDGs, including key dates and documents from October to February: here
• 16 November 2012: C3 contribution to BMJ Blogs site on NCDs, MDGs, SDGs…, updating to mid-November: click here >>
• September 2012: For a short update, one year on from the UN HLM (September 2012): click here >>
• May 2012: Summary of action following on from the UN HLM, including links to many WHO and other discussion documents, briefing papers etc.: click here >>
• For an archive of key meetings and consultations from September 2011: click here >>
• Click here >> for more details about the UN HLM itself. 

Note:

The Political Declaration unanimously adopted at the UN HLM set in train a number of key actions for the international community (including the UN and WHO). This section of our website is focusing particularly on the achievement of paragraphs 61 (establishing a global monitoring framework, including indicators) and 62 (preparing recommendations of a set of voluntary global targets) of the Political Declaration.