United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases

E/RES/2015/8View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 12f Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, published in 2015.

What other versions does this mandate have?

11 versions · 2013–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is E/RES/2025/30

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	E/RES/2025/30	United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases	295	18%Compare
2024	E/RES/2024/17	United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases	1,495	59%Compare
2021	E/RES/2021/27	United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases	1,953	88%Compare
2020	E/RES/2020/22	United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases	1,793	63%Compare
2019	E/RES/2019/9	United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases	1,208	50%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Disease Control Disease Prevention Inter-Agency Cooperation Non-Communicable Diseases Public Health

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Director-General of the World Health Organization on the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases² and the recommendations contained therein, including to report annually on progress made in implementing Economic and Social Council resolution 2013/12;

²E/2015/53.

Encourages members of the Task Force to continue to work together in a coordinated manner to support national efforts to implement the commitments included in the 2011 political declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases³ and the 2014 outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the comprehensive review and assessment of the progress achieved in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases,⁴ building on guidance set out in the World Health Organization Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases 2013–2020;⁵

³General Assembly resolution 66/2, annex.

⁴General Assembly resolution 68/300.

⁵World Health Organization, document WHA66/2013/REC/1, annex 4.

Encourages the agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system to scale up the delivery of actions contained in the workplan of the Task Force;

Encourages the Task Force to further enhance systematic support to Member States, upon request, at the national level, in efforts to support responses to prevent and control non-communicable diseases and mitigate their impacts, including through the establishment of a resident thematic group or equivalent entity on non-communicable diseases by United Nations country teams or incorporating non-communicable diseases into an existing thematic group, in order to ensure that these issues are integrated into health planning and national development plans and policies, including the design process and implementation of the United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council at its 2016 session on progress achieved in implementing resolution 2013/12, under the sub-item entitled “Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases” of the item entitled “Coordination, programme and other questions”, in preparation for a comprehensive review by the General Assembly, in 2018, of the progress achieved in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.

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