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

E/RES/2017/8View 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 2017.

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 Non-Communicable Diseases Sustainable Development Task Forces

What’s in this document?

11 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 Diseases⁶ and the recommendations contained therein, including to report to the Economic and Social Council in 2018 on progress made in implementing Council resolution 2013/12;

⁶E/2017/54.

Notes with appreciation the support provided by Member States with regard to the work of the Task Force, including through the activities of an informal group of States working to assist the Task Force in the execution of its mandate;

Notes the initiative to hold, in Montevideo from 18 to 20 October 2017, a global conference on non-communicable diseases on the theme “Enhancing policy coherence between different spheres of policymaking that have a bearing on attaining target 3.4 of the Sustainable Development Goals on non-communicable diseases by 2030”;

Welcomes the financial or in-kind support provided by Member States⁷ and international development partners for the work of the Task Force;

⁷Japan, the Russian Federation and the United States of America.

Recognizes that the requests in its resolution 2016/5 for members of the Task Force to provide support to Member States to reflect the non-communicable disease-related targets included in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development⁸ in national development plans and policies cannot be fulfilled with the current resources;

⁸General Assembly resolution 70/1.

Urges national Governments, the private sector as appropriate, and bilateral and multilateral donors, including the World Bank and regional development banks, to explore financing for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases and mobilizing the provision of adequate, predictable and sustained resources for the programmatic work of the Task Force, including the four global joint programmes, in order to scale up Task Force support to Member States;

Urges bilateral and multilateral donors to strengthen international cooperation and development assistance to support efforts to build sufficient capacity in developing countries, in particular with regard to legal, fiscal and regulatory systems, including for evidence-based strategies such as taxation and/or innovative financing options, with the objective of developing and implementing multisectoral responses for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases;

Calls upon the members of the Task Force to raise awareness about the burden of non-communicable diseases and the links with poverty and sustainable development, in its economic, social and environmental dimensions, and about opportunities to accelerate progress in reducing their burden, including through enhancing cooperation with existing goodwill ambassadors, envoys, global advocates, eminent persons and local champions;

Encourages the thematic working groups to place greater emphasis on, and make further progress towards, addressing additional contributing factors to the rising incidence and prevalence of non-communicable diseases, including economic, social, environmental and behavioural determinants of health, and, where relevant, to coordinate this work among their respective institutions, in particular with regard to addressing the impacts of air pollution on health;

Encourages members of the Task Force, as appropriate and in line with their respective mandates, to develop and implement their own policies on preventing tobacco industry interference, bearing in mind the model policy for agencies of the United Nations system on preventing tobacco industry interference, in order to ensure a consistent and effective separation between the activities of the United Nations system and those of the tobacco industry;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council at its 2018 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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