Table 1 The participants’ views about the features of the network and the actors

Features of the network and the actors

Leadership

• The key role of the UN and WHO in establishing coordination

• WHO’s commitment to strengthening accountability for NCD-related actions and to simplifying and streamlining the mechanisms for doing so

• WHO’s commitment to working with all governments and non-state actors

• WHO monitoring the key factors in NCDs prevention and control

• WHO’s mission to provide technical assistance to health ministries and national institutions in designing and evaluating interventions, policymaking, and advocacy

Governance

• Governance tasks: research, policymaking, advocacy, planning, resource mobilization, implementation

• Proposed structure: A secretariat, a high-level council, an advisory group, and an executive committee

• The need for comprehensive planning at higher levels of decision making

• Strengthening political commitments at the highest levels to address the priority areas of the NCDs program

Composition

• Involvement of state actors from all sectors (health and non-health sectors such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Sports, Industry, etc.), NGOs and charities, representatives of patients, and international organizations

• Strengthening the role of the private sector in NCDs prevention and control

• Changing the general approach of the government and the whole society to health in order to create healthy environments

• The need for a national response that engages all the sectors involved

Framing of Strategies

• Strategy 1: Focusing on people, not the disease

• Strategy 2: Promoting healthy products, behaviors, and lifestyles

• Strategy 3: Mobilizing resources and promoting investment nationwide to strengthen multisectoral collaborations and partnerships and support the implementation of cost-effective interventions in NCDs programs