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PRIORITY 2.

Boost NCD Investment

RATIONALE

Scaling up investment for NCDs is a critical priority to achieve the 2025 NCD targets and the Sustainable Development Goals.

However, sustainable and adequate resources for NCDs are severely lacking and remain a bottleneck in the response. NCDs receive just 1.3% of development assistance for health, making NCDs the only major global health priority without international financing. Closing the resource gap will require multiple financing sources, depending on the country-specific context. The expected result will be a blended stream of financing, including creating and optimising fiscal space for NCD investment domestically, exploring innovative financing mechanisms (such as taxation of unhealthy commodities), multilateral/bilateral funding, private sector engagement, and catalytic mechanisms, in line with the recommendations from the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in 2015. While domestic resource mobilisation is critical, for low-income countries allocating less than 5% of gross domestic product to health, progress on NCDs will be impossible without catalytic funding from donors.

ILLUSTRATIVE ADVOCACY ASKS

  • Increase and meet the financing needs of the global NCD response from all sources, including domestic, bilateral, multilateral and innovative financing by 2025.
  • Fulfil all official development assistance (ODA) commitments, including 0.7% of gross national income for developed countries, and commit to increasing ODA for health and NCDs.
  • Increase national budgetary allocations for NCDs and leverage other sources of existing funding, and ensure adequate allocations from all relevant government ministries.
  • Implement recommendations from the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on fiscal policies for NCD prevention.
  • Channel investment into NCDs and health system strengthening via existing financing mechanisms, including the Global Fund and the Global Financing Facility, capitalising on cost- effective delivery of integrated services.
  • Call for divestment of private funds from unhealthy commodities industries and economic activity that leads to increased risk of NCDs

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VIDEO

We have had enough of chronically inadequate financing for NCDs

Opinion: We need new ways to fund NCDs. Development assistance isn’t enough.

BY KATIE DAIN
9th April 2018

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