Building capacity for NCD prevention and control meeting

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REPORT: REGIONAL MEETING ON PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF NCD
Part 1
Building Capacity for NCD Prevention and Control
FIGURE 2. Spidergram indicating average political support and programme capacity for RAP objectives
Monitoring
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Evaluation
Partnerships
Advocacy
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Research
Policy
Population
Interventions
Political Support
Programme Capacity
The spidergram indicates that, on average, there is moderate political support and programme capacity for
most of the objectives. For policy and monitoring and evaluation, there is more political support than for
programme capacity, suggesting that the biggest gains may be made by improving programme capacity
in these areas. For research and partnerships, programme capacity is stronger than political support,
suggesting that eff ort should be put into garnering political support in these areas. All areas, however,
would benefi t from boosts in capacity and political support.
To complete workshop activities on day 1, participants were invited to vote for their top three areas where
action was most needed. The overall results are summarized in Table 2.
TABLE 2: Areas where action is most needed in the next two years
Advocacy Policy Population interventions Research Partnerships Monitoring and evaluation
3 11 7 5 6 7
The key areas were identifi ed as policy, population interventions and monitoring and evaluation and it was
agreed that, for day 2 of the workshop, Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Viet Nam would
progress work on Policy; the Pacifi c island countries would progress work on Population interventions; and
China, Malaysia, Mongolia and the Philippines would progress work on Monitoring and evaluation.
Summary and output of day 1
The planned output of an overview of country progress and assessment of political support and programme
capacity in relation to the NCD RAP, and development of a list of priority action areas was achieved. At
the end of day 1, each country could point to three or four areas for action to improve NCD prevention
and control and explain why they were considered priorities. Collectively, this information is also useful for
development agencies to identify what areas require most support across the Region.
In the process, there was healthy discussion over whom the priorities were for and why a set of agreed
regional objectives needed prioritization. It was noted that (1) the training was primarily designed to