Table 2 Participants’ views about the policy environment
Dimension | Themes | Subthemes |
|---|---|---|
Policy environment | Allies and opponents | • Key allies  o UN and its agencies such as WHO  o Ministries/departments of health  o NCDs Alliance • Key opponents  o Industries such as tobacco and alcohol |
Funding | • Different national priorities • High political power of special interest groups • Income and GDP of countries • Involving the public and private sectors as well as NCDs patients • Increasing domestic funding through innovative mechanisms such as taxes on tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages • Lack of financial resources, unsustainable financing, and resource mobilization challenges • The budget mechanism is not aligned with the National Development Plan • Government’s dependence on the private sector and taxes on harmful products | |
Norms | • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) • Political Declaration of the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of NCDs • National Committee on NCDs |