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Meet the Targets Final Report Encouraging Country-‐level Ac:on to Make Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases a Global Priority
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“We’re faced with a tsunami of NCDs in the 21st century. Not maybe. It’s coming. If we could predict the next real tsunami, would it not be a moral impera:ve to warn people and to take ac:on?”
John R. Seffrin, PhD, CEO, American Cancer Society
Partnership Goal The American Cancer Society is commiTed to partnering with key internal and external stakeholders to prevent cancer, save lives, diminish suffering, and mobilize a global network to fight cancer through:
• advocacy, • capacity building, • informa:on-‐sharing and • resource mobiliza:on.
Our partners program extends the Society’s organiza:onal assets and leverages the assets of our collabora:ng partners at the global level and in our regional focus countries within La:n America, Sub-‐Saharan Africa and India.
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ACS “Meet the Targets” program • Launched in 2012 to support na:onal advocacy
efforts in Brazil, the Caribbean, Ethiopia, India, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Philippines and Uganda.
• Provided $380,000 to 10 organiza:ons over two years.
• Ended in 2014.
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Goals of Meet the Targets • To ensure na:onal implementa:on of pledges
made at 2011 High-‐Level Mee:ng. • To hold decision-‐makers accountable to global
NCD targets established in 2012. • To mobilize na:onal civil society networks to
work together to ensure NCDs are priority of UN’s post-‐2015 sustainability development goals.
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Criteria • Project: Advocacy objec:ves are specific and
measurable (30%) • Impact: Project has poten:al to impact public policy
(20%) • Organiza:on and personnel: Demonstrates the
capacity, experience and resources to do the project (15%)
• Collabora:on: Project involves the forma:on of networks and collabora:ons (20%)
• Mobiliza:on: The project employs a mul:-‐sector approach (15%)
Evidence of success Meet the Targets: • Helped foster real policy change – implementa:on of tough, an:-‐tobacco measure in Brazil and passage of new tax on sugary drinks in Mexico
• Prodded government to provide breast cancer training on na:onal basis for first :me in Philippines
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More evidence of success Meet the Targets: • Elevated poli:cal prominence of NCDs in health priori:es in several countries (Ethiopia, India) • Provided resources to develop policies, plans and frameworks for preven:on and control of NCDs and pallia:ve care. (Uganda, Mexico)
• Religious groups and schools reached via social mobiliza:on efforts that raised awareness around HIV and NCDs messaging (Kenya)
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Next Steps • Assessing scale-‐up opportuni:es and inves:ng in
targeted projects in priority regions in 2015 (Youth Leadership, Global Relay, etc)
• Sharing these unique stories/role of civil society: Social Media, global policy networks (global.cancer.org, grantees and partners)
• Connec:ng with Global/USG NCD Advocacy Opportuni:es (World Cancer Declara:on, NCD Alliance, Post-‐2015 Development Campaigns)
NCD Alliance Post-‐2015 Development Agenda and Advocacy
Our priori>es for the NCD target: • Set of nine global NCD targets that focus on reducing the NCD burden by
2025
Post 2015 Development Advocacy • Universal Health Coverage and NCD recogni:on
• Direct outreach to Member States
• Bilateral outreach to NGOs and toolkits