Report
16 May 2025
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases and their risk factors are an increasing public health and development challenge in Armenia. This report provides evidence through...
Publication
20 Aug 2024
To scale up noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health country action, funding was provided to the Secretariat of the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Controls of NCDs by the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Partnership for acti...
Case study
08 Jul 2024
This is the second paper in the NCD Alliance series Everybody's Business: A series on bold actions to close the NCD funding gap. Although they are largely preventable, NCDs and their related risk factors remain overwhelmingly neglected by developm...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
23 Apr 2024
The Health4Life Fund (the UN Multi-Partner Trust to Catalyze Country Action for Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health) has been established to galvanize domestic financing and scale up country action for the prevention and control of NCDs and f...
Guide
31 Mar 2023
Developed by UN DESA and UNDP, this analytical framework is a tool to enable governments, stakeholders, and development partners to examine and strengthen the quality of their stakeholder engagement practices at different stages of the 2030 Agenda cy...
Report
22 Oct 2021
This groundbreaking research considers impact of COVID-19 on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) using futures modeling in three potential recovery scenarios, capturing the multidimensional effects of the pandemic over the next decade. The studi...
Report
22 Oct 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic unveiled the global crisis in care and countries’ heavy dependence on women’s unpaid care work. Drawing on data from Europe and Central Asia and Asia-Pacific, this brief presents the case for urgent investment in a care econ...
Database
03 Aug 2020
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Report
18 Jun 2019
This economic analysis makes the case for investing in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in Armenia. Through three comprehensive analyses—economic burden, intervention costing, and return on investment—the report demon...
Report
07 Jan 2019
The purpose of this publication is to provide guidance on how to integrate NCDs into the UNDAF.1 The guidance is in line with the "WHO Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs 2013-2020" and other relevant global, regional and nation...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Jan 2019
This Issue Brief describes why scaled up action on NCDs is integral for sustainable development. It presents UNDP’s ongoing global and regional work with partners on NCDs, and outlines opportunities for UNDP to help strengthen NCD responses at diff...
Report
02 Jan 2019
This report looks at the impact of rising temperatures due to climate change on the workforce. Rising heat in the workplace implies severe effects for Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and emerging economies with...
