Countries enabled to reinforce partnerships across sectors, as well as governance mechanisms, laws and fiscal measures The Secretariat will step up its leadership by:
engaging with civil society and the private sector to promote, encourage and support meaningful and effective contributions to national responses;
engaging with the private sector and civil society organizations to leverage their know-how and resources in order to advance common interests in promoting health and well-being at national, regional and global levels across the triple billion targets;
stepping up engagement with civil society organizations, which are uniquely positioned to represent and reach vulnerable populations, as well as by improving accountability in the implementation of public health actions and programmes. The Secretariat will continue to review the recommendations of the WHO Civil Society Task Team in order to strengthen engagement with civil society;
strengthening partnerships and engagement with other United Nations agencies to address multisectoral determinants and risk factors;
advocating that multilateral instruments should address determinants and multisectoral risks to health and well-being. The Secretariat will support the strengthening of multilateral governance, especially by advocating a Health in All Policies approach and health impact assessments and the provision of evidence and data to aid decision-making;
forging multistakeholder partnerships and alliances which mobilize and share knowledge about, assess the progress of, provide services for and raise awareness of persons living with and affected by poor health and disability. The Secretariat will establish or strengthen specific mechanisms, in line with WHO?s Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors, including but not limited to: the food and non-alcoholic beverages industry; economic operators in alcohol production and trade; the pharmaceutical industry; consumer organizations; private health facilities and private practitioners; the investment industry (promoting the health-related Sustainable Development Goals and innovation); information technology, telecoms and marketing industries (to identify opportunities for scaling up processes); and civil society organizations;
build capacity in health diplomacy and cooperation between health, finance, trade, development and law; and
working with partners to combat and manage misinformation that increases the risks to health.
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;
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 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; and
strengthen the institutional capacity, mechanisms and mandates of relevant authorities to implement population-based policy interventions, for example, in order to reduce tobacco use, the harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity through bold whole-of-government and whole-of-society actions and responses. Supportive and empowering societies through addressing health risk factors