People living with NCDs offer unique and powerful insights into issues and challenges of tackling NCDs on a day-to day basis. Individuals living with NCDs, their care partners and relatives grasp the issues and challenges they face the best, which gives them first-hand knowledge that cannot be replaced by technical expertise. The meaningful involvement of people living with NCDs is a critical element of an effective NCD response. From policymaking to awareness raising, clinical trials, academic research, advocacy, organisational governance, and more, people living with NCDs can contribute to many different facets of the NCD response and act as role models breaking barriers to inclusion.
To promote meaningful involvement of PLWNCDs in all aspects of NCD continuum of care
This project aims to contribute reducing the burden of NCDs via strategic advocacy for multi-sectoral engagement in the NCD response. The project promotes the advocacy agenda of PLWNCDs and contribution to the process of mitigating NCD burden in the country. These objectives are achieved through implementation of a number of activities that include outreach to various stakeholders whose work influence NCD prevention and control, improvement of policies and regulation to improve NCD control efforts, and development of appropriate documentation for NCD advocacy in the country. The project focuses on the following objectives:
This project seeks to strengthen NCDAK’s advocacy via PLWNCDs-led community mobilisation to promote NCD prevention and control in Kenya. The project is aligned to and will strive to implement priority advocacy objectives identified in the NCDAK advocacy strategy using varied actions including involving PLWNCDs as NCD champions. The project also focuses on using non-traditional NCD stakeholders to raise community awareness of NCDs. Sharing of lived experience by PLWNCDs will be one of the mechanisms used to enhance awareness of NCDs among these stakeholders.
The project focuses on the following objectives:
The Our Views, Our Voices (OVOV) is a Peer-led training programme aiming to utilise a peer-led training approach to equip people living with NCDs with skills to become effective spokespersons, share their lived experiences and amplify the Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs, and build a powerful narrative on NCDs. The public
narrative framework (story of self, us and now) is fundamental to the trainings and is included in the training agenda. The programme organises and conducts training workshops targeting PLWNCDs groups with the aim of ensuring that the training skills and knowledge acquired are cascaded to other members of their groups.
The project focuses on the following objectives:
NCDAK supported the meaningful involvement of PLWNCDs in Kenya by scaling up the Our Views, Our Voices initiative. Representatives of patient led organisations for people living with stroke, diabetes, sickle cell, cancer and dementia will be organised into a caucus and empowered with organizational development support to spearhead and coordinate meaningful involvement of PLWNCDs in the NCD response in Kenya. Among the key activities of the Caucus will be planning for a national dissemination of the Advocacy Agenda for PLWNCDs in Kenya under mentorship and support of NCD Alliance Kenya.
The project focuses on the following objectives:
This project aimed to upscale the advocacy agenda of PLWNCDs in Kenya by establishing a National Caucus
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