NCD Child’s strategy is based on one fundamental principle:
Young people must be appropriately and meaningfully engaged throughout all aspects of planning, programming and evaluation of NCD Child’s work.
Identify, build capacity, and provide professional development to youth advocates to ensure their meaningful and sustained engagement in global, regional, and national NCD spheres.
Contribute to, and develop evidence-based resources related to NCD prevention and control in children, adolescents, and young people.
Strengthen NCD Child’s position as a credible thought leader in the global NCD space by providing expertise in child and adolescent health policy development and implementation.
Build internal capacity and strengthen the infrastructure and governance of NCD Child in order to maximize impact and efficiency in all operations.
To contribute to the global diabetes movement and create impactful momentum to address the prevention and care of type 1 diabetes (T1D), NCD Child and partners are raising awareness of young people living with T1D all over the world by launching the #YouthBeyondT1D social media campaign. The campaign will give decision-makers and NCD advocates an understanding of the lived experiences and the need for change to young people’s lives.
The WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs (GCM/NCD) is launching the first cycle of the Noncommunicable Disease Lab (NCD Lab), a new virtual platform that supports submissions that harness innovative solutions to accelerate progress towards achieving the NCD and NCD-related SDGs, and NCD Child is proud to be co-chairing the lab on Next Generation and NCDs.
On December 14 and 15, NCD Child in partnership with the Healthy Latin America Coalition (CLAS) and the American Heart Association held a two-day regional workshop entitled ‘School Health in Latin America: Intersectoral NCD Prevention and Management.”
In an effort to support the youth NCD community during COVID-19 we have launched the #YouthCOVIDChat campaign on Twitter. This campaign will provide a platform for young
Over 400 delegates from 85 countries convened at the third Global NCD Alliance Forum 2020 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Among those were many young leaders of NCD Child as well as youth advocates from around the world.
NCD Child convened its first Global NCD Forum on Children and Youth on 25 and 26 March 2019, supported by Friends of Cancer Patients and
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