This Partner forum aims at bringing Partners together to build an international network that will foster awareness and reinforce capacities and strategies in the region to address the emerging NCD burden.

 

The objectives pursued by the Partner Forum are as follows:

  • To map out NCD training and capacity building oppor tunities in the region and internationally;

  • To undertake stocktaking on existing interventions, capture the lessons and disseminate the information;

  • In collaboration with the Africa NCD Expert Group, identify priority intervention areas and establish resource mobilization mechanisms;

  • Identify institutions that should be enlisted in th e fight against NCDs and develop appropriateness criteria for an ethical engagement of industry in this effort;

  • Develop and prepare activities towards partners’ pa rticipation during the Global WHO Health Promotion Conference to be held in Nairo bi, Kenya in October 2009;

  • Evaluate the work of the Partners Forum and explore funding opportunities for NCD activities in the region.