Countries enabled to reinforce partnerships across sectors, as well as governance mechanisms, laws and fiscal measures The Secretariat will support countries to:
foster community empowerment, including through the promotion of health education and health literacy;
establish or strengthen national multistakeholder dialogue mechanisms for the implementation of health promotion plans, including nutrition and physical activity;
adopt transparent and participatory national accountability mechanisms for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases;
invest in and strengthen civil society and community organization actions and engagement in the areas of public health, health promotion and prevention, and control of noncommunicable diseases to ensure that civil society and community partners are actively engaged in decision-making and the implementation of interventions;
establish and strengthen mechanisms to address conflicts of interest and industry interference in support of preventing and controlling noncommunicable diseases;
advocate for increased domestic and development financing for scaling up action on health promotion and the disease-related Sustainable Development Goals;
provide capacity-buildingand specialized technical assistance in the field of fiscal measures for health, particularly on excise taxation on tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverage products;
provide capacity-buildingand specialized technical assistance on health law, including supporting development of laws and regulations, and assisting Member States to address industry interference, including through legal arguments and litigation;
strengthen the institutional capacity, mechanisms and mandates of relevant authorities to implement population-based policy interventions, including for the reduction in tobacco and alcohol use, unhealthy diets and physical inactivity through whole-of-government and whole-of-society actions and responses;
adopt evidence-based and cost-effective nutrition and healthy diet policy measures through a multisectoral and multistakeholder approach; and
strengthen diet-related interventions that prevent noncommunicable diseases obesity, through the life course approach.

In producing technical products on norms/standard, data and research, the Secretariat will:
develop norms, standards and tools for: (i) health education, health literacy and health diplomacy; (ii) strengthening national multistakeholder dialogue mechanisms for implementing multisectoral action plans and effective multisectoral engagement; (iii) strengthening transparent national accountability mechanisms for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases; (iv) using fiscal measures to reduce health care costs and generate a domestic revenue stream for development; and (v) social, behavioural and community engagement interventions;
develop tools, normative evidence, and market surveillance to provide best practice guidance for countries on how to use fiscal measures to improve health, reduce health care costs and generate a revenue stream for development;
develop tools illustrating how to implement WHO guidance through laws and regulations, including tools comparing legal approaches to implementation and tools describing legal considerations for Member States;
prepare data products, for example, a report on the progress made by countries in attaining target 3.4 of the Sustainable Development Goals, a register of the commitments made by Member States, United Nations entities and non-State actors towards the attainment of target 3.4, and a final report of the WHO GCM/NCD Working Group on health education and health literacy for noncommunicable diseases; and
develop and update guidance to reduce the negative impact on health of reformulation of foods, food labelling, marketing policies and fiscal and pricing policies. Supportive and empowering societies through addressing health risk factors