Create and sustain meaningful engagement of people living with NCDs and mental health conditions to build community resilience and participative decision-making.
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People living with NCDs have a right to participate in decisions concerning their own health and well-being. Lived experience is a form of expertise, and crucial to understanding barriers, identifying solutions, and planning policies, programmes and services on NCDs. Programmes that are co-produced with people with lived experience are more likely to be effective and sustainable. Meaningfully engaging people with lived experience in decision-making from design and planning stages through to implementation and evaluation results in greater ownership and responsiveness.
For its fourth cycle, the NCD Lab welcomes submissions of innovative approaches to meaningfully engage people living with NCDs and mental health conditions by leveraging the primary health care approach. Submissions in this thematic area should demonstrate how individuals with lived experience are involved in the co-creation of projects, including at the level of co-design, co-production and/or co-monitoring. For example, engagement of people with lived experience can inform and sensitize primary care professionals, administrators and decision-makers as part of health workforce development. Community-led monitoring of primary care services and community-based programmes that engage people with lived experience can improve PHC coverage of vulnerable populations.
Integrating health services
Empowering people and communities
Strengthening multisectoral policy and action for integrated PHC
Application deadline: 30 June 2024.
How does meaningful engagement of people living with NCDs look like in practice? In this thematic area, the NCD Lab is looking for innovative projects that engage people with lived experience of NCDs and mental health conditions throughout the co-creation process, from design to implementation and evaluation. Watch this video to explore an example.
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