EANCDA capacity building for strategy development, national, regional and global advocacy

Project period:

01.03.2018 - 31.03.2019

Granted amount:

978,467,- DKK

Organization:

Kræftens Bekæmpelse

Partners:

NCD Alliance East Africa (EANCDA)

Pool:

Civilsamfundspuljen

Grant type:

Udviklingsindsats

Efforts take place in:

Burundi Kenya Rwanda Tanzania Uganda

Overall targets

To strengthen East Africa NCD Alliance’s organisational capacity and capacity for advocacy in East Africa and globally for the health goal in Sustainable Development Goals and to promote engagement of the East African Governments in the 2018 UN High-level Meeting in order to include views from people in East Africa in the UN outcome document and to commit the Governments and donors to scale up initiatives for prevention and control of NCDs and to allocate sufficient budgets for this nationally.

Immediate targets

Objective 1 By February 2019 EANCDA has been transformed from a loose network of NCD Alliances in EA to a strong and legitimate NGO. Objective 2 By December 2018 EANCDA has advocated successfully for inclusion of problems of people living with NCDs in East Africa and made a foot print on the outcome document of the UN HLM on NCDs and successfully engaged and influenced East African governments and EAC on the UN Outcome Document

Target groups

Primary target group; capacity building: -3 representatives from each national NCD alliance in total 18 people. -Boards/general assemblies of national member associations about 30 people from each national alliance in total about 180 people. Primary target group; East Africa advocacy before 2018 UN HLM/ Advocacy for the 2018 UN HLM: The ultimate target group for the project is the people of countries in the East African Community. Expected 6 to 12 million people overall. • Governments of the 6 East African countries. • MoHs in the 6 East African countries including ministers and civil servants • Members of Parliaments in the East African countries • The Coordinating Committee of the East African Community Secretariat • The Committee on general purposes of the East African Legislative Assembly • WHO Afro and WHO country representatives (NCD Units) Side event at 2018 UN HLM -Delegations from East African countries and other African delegations. -Donor delegations at the 2018 UN HLM, 6 representatives from different donor countries including Denmark. -Philanthropies, private business delegations. -The public in general from each of the East African countries. Between 500.000 and 2 million 2 People Living with NCDs (PLWNCDs) selected to represent issues from this group at the HLM. Target groups contributing through other projects: About 360 people including 60 people from each country. Secondary target groups: -Media between 3 and 5 media houses from each country. -The Danish UN Embassy (ambassador and health officer) representing the Danish Government and the governments of Tanzania and/or Kenya

Resume

EANCDA blev etableret som et løst netværk for NCD Alliancer i Østafrika i 2014 med fokus på regional og global advocacy. Netværket er blevet styrket igennem kapacitetsudvikling. I 2017 ansøgte netværket om en NGOgodkendelse. Projektet skal bidrage til organisatorisk udvikling og strategiudvikling for EANCDA. Samtidig vil EANCDA gennemføre målrettet advocacy for at styrke resultatet af FNs NCD højniveaumøde i 2018. Mødet er en enestående mulighed for at påvirke den globale og nationale indsats mod NCDs. En benchmark undersøgelse af implementering af FNs 2014 slutdokument og et charter udviklet i igangværende projekt er vigtige inputs. Advocacy vil blive gennemført i en vekselvirkning mellem national indsats, som indebærer en strategisk involvering af patienter og pårørende og en fokuseret indsats i FN, hvor der afholdes en side event under værtskab af Danmark, Kenya, Tanzania, EANCDA og DNCDA. Målet er styrket national og global prioritering.