The mission of Defeat-NCD Partnership is to enable and assist lower-income and lesser developed countries to scale-up sustained action against NCDs so that they can progress on SDG 3 “ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages” and, more specifically, to achieve target 3.4 to “reduce, by one-third, premature mortality from NCDs by 2030″. Accordingly, the priority focus of The Defeat-NCD Partnership is on the 49 least-developed and low-income countries with technical capacity building support also available to a further 43 lower-middle income countries.

With the strong support of the World Health Organization, The Defeat-NCD Partnership was launched at the United Nations during the 73rd United Nations General Assembly in New York on 24th September 2018 as a “public private people” partnership to enable and assist all low-resource countries to scale-up action on Non-Communicable Diseases (“NCD”) through: 

• NCD National capacity building: Help governments to strengthen key institutions and develop plans of action
• NCD Community health scale-up: Increase the provision of NCD services through community action and health system strengthening
• NCD Marketplace: Expand the consistent availability of affordable essential medicines, diagnostics, and technologies for NCDs
• NCD Financing: Support low-resource countries in securing financing to achieve universal health coverage for NCDs

The public–private–people partnership is hosted by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).