Background
The International dialogue on sustainable financing for NCDs and mental health will be convened on 20–21 June 2024 with the aim to explore approaches of including NCDs and mental health responses within national health and financing plans. This is the second meeting of a series initiated in 2018 with the WHO Global Dialogue on Partnership for Sustainable Financing of Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control which was held in Copenhagen, Denmark.
This meeting is a collaboration between WHO and the World Bank and will be held in a hybrid format (in-person/virtual).
The following technical background papers have been developed to inform the International dialogue on sustainable financing for NCDs and mental health:
- Health spending on NCDs and mental health: What can NHA tell us?
- External financing for NCDs and mental health: What is the role of DAH?
- Domestic financing for NCDs and mental health: What is the role of health taxes and other fiscal measures?
- Domestic financing for NCDs and mental health: priorities, purchasing and provider payments
- Financial protection for NCDs and mental health: Why and how?
- Human resources for health: How to increase workforce inputs to address NCDs and mental health conditions
- Galvanizing investment, action and accountability in NCDs and mental health: the role of civil society
Additional documents
- Noncommunicable diseases, tobacco control and mental health investment cases
- Humanitarian health financing for noncommunicable diseases
Web-based consultation process
The WHO Secretariat and the World Bank are launching a consultative process to enable Member States, UN organizations, non-State actors including organizations of individuals with lived experience of NCDs and mental health conditions to provide feedback on the content of the following:
- the draft technical background papers (links provided above),
- a paper containing a summary of each background paper, and
- emerging messages that will inform the outcome document.
The outcome document of the International Dialogue on sustainable financing for NCDs and mental health may also serve as to inform the negotiations among Member States on the outcomes from the Fourth High-level Meeting of the UNGA on the Prevention and Control of NCDs.
All stakeholder organizations are invited to contribute their views by sharing written feedback on any or all of the documents using the template that can be downloaded here. Once the template is completed, please email it to OnTheRoadTo2025@who.int.
The consultation period is until close of business 17 June 2024 (CEST).
Please send any enquiries to the aforementioned email address.
All inputs received through the web-based consultation will be published online.
- Please note the web-based consultation and the International dialogue on sustainable financing for NCDs and mental health form part of the preparatory processes for the Fourth High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on the Prevention and Control of NCDs that will be convened in 2025 as requested in resolution A/RES/73/2.
- In addition to this web consultation, there is also an ongoing web-based consultation to identify thematic priorities in advance of the fourth high-level meeting on NCDs. Further information on this can be found here.