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

E/RES/2021/27View 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 2021.

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 Financial Resources Non-Communicable Diseases Task Forces

What’s in this document?

12 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 Diseases⁹ and the recommendations contained therein, including to report to the Economic and Social Council in 2022 on progress made in implementing Council resolution 2013/12;

⁹E/2021/48/Rev.1.

Commends the Task Force for its activities aimed at supporting Member States in the achievement of the non-communicable disease-related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,¹⁰ in particular during the COVID-19 pandemic;

¹⁰General Assembly resolution 70/1.

Calls upon bilateral and multilateral donors, as well as other stakeholders, including philanthropic foundations, civil society and the private sector, as appropriate, to mobilize human and financial resources for the programmatic work of the Task Force;

Encourages bilateral and multilateral donors, as well as other relevant stakeholders, to mobilize resources to support, upon request, Member States, including the least developed countries, to catalyse sustainable domestic responses to non-communicable diseases, as well as mental disorders and other mental health conditions, inter alia, through innovative voluntary funding mechanisms, such as the United Nations multi-partner trust fund to catalyse country action for non-communicable diseases and mental health;

Calls upon the members of the Task Force to continue to work together to identify additional technical resources to enhance their support to Member States in line with the Task Force strategy for 2019–2021, paying particular attention to the needs of Member States during their COVID-19 response and recovery;

Requests the Task Force to further support Member States in their efforts to address the burden of non-communicable diseases, including health promotion and disease prevention, maintaining essential health-care services and their timely delivery, providing evidence-based digital health programmes, promoting research and development of and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable diagnostics, therapeutics, essential medicines, vaccines and other health technologies, inter alia, through various related initiatives, as well as through strengthening health systems, including regulatory frameworks and good supply chain management, and through primary health care, as appropriate, paying particular attention to the needs of people living with or at risk of developing non-communicable diseases, in particular those in vulnerable situations;

Also requests the Task Force to continue to strengthen inter-agency work and communication, including by engaging with relevant stakeholders, as appropriate, to achieve public health goals;

Calls upon the Task Force and its members to strengthen its capacity to provide technical and policy advice to Governments, upon request, in order to implement multisectoral strategies and enhance multi-stakeholder action, including with the private sector, with a view to strengthening their contribution to the implementation of national responses to non-communicable diseases, and to achieving universal health coverage;

Encourages members of the Task Force, within their respective mandates, to continue collaboration among each other and to support Member States, upon their request, in promoting improved nutrition, healthy diets and lifestyles;

Calls upon the Task Force and its members, within its mandate, to support, upon request, the capacity of Member States for improved regulatory and legal frameworks that promote favourable health outcomes for non-communicable diseases and mental health;

Encourages members of the Task Force, as appropriate and in line with their respective mandates, to support Member States that are parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control¹¹ in their national capacities and efforts to implement the Framework Convention, as well as to continue to develop and implement their own policies on preventing tobacco industry interference, including those related to novel and emerging tobacco products, bearing in mind the model policy for agencies of the United Nations system on preventing tobacco industry interference, in order to ensure consistent and effective separation between the activities of the United Nations system and those of the tobacco industry;

¹¹United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2302, No. 41032.

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council at its 2022 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”, taking note of the discussion on the periodicity of the consideration of the sub-item.

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