About

Our Views, Our Voices is an initiative of the NCD Alliance and people living with NCDs, dedicated to promoting the meaningful involvement of people living with NCDs in the NCD response.

The initiative supports and enables people living with NCDs to share their views in order to take action and drive change. It seeks to advance the rights of people living with NCDs and combat stigma and discrimination.

In recognition of the central role of people living with NCDs in the response, the NCD Alliance set out to promote the voice of people living with NCDs in advocacy and organisational development in its 2016-2020 Strategic Plan.  To deliver on its Strategic Plan, the NCD Alliance developed the Our Views, Our Voices initiative, launched in 2017 with the guidance and insights of a Global Advisory Committee comprising people with lived experience of a range of NCD conditions.

People living with NCDs are the ultimate owners of this initiative, they inspire it and they drive it. Based on a people-centred and participatory approach, the views and voices of people living with NCDs take centre stage.

Objectives

The Our Views, Our Voices initiative seeks to:

  • Promote consultation of people living with NCDs to build a knowledge base of their common challenges, needs and priorities
  • Advocate to put people first in the NCD response at the global, regional and national levels by promoting meaningful involvement of people living with NCDs in decision making and furthering the Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs
  • Equip people living with NCDs with skills, knowledge and confidence to build a public narrative and drive change
  • Promote the views and voices of people living with NCDs and strengthen a public narrative that puts people first, challenges NCD misconceptions, breaks down stigma and discrimination, and calls for systemic change


Meaningful involvement is the only way that barriers between policymakers and people living with NCDs can be removed.

Lived experience of physical disability, Ghana

2022-2023

Advisory Committee

Farhan Ahmad

Pakistan NCD Alliance

CVD (care partner)

Pakistan

Ratna Devi

Healthy India Alliance

Psoriasis/Arthritis

India

Einstein Rojas

Healthy Philippines Alliance

Arthritis, Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease (CVD) (care partner)

Philippines

Shamim Talukdar

Bangladesh NCD Forum

Eye or ear conditions, Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease (CVD)

Bangladesh

Chikhulupiliro Stanley Ng'ombe

Malawi NCD Alliance

Epilepsy (personal + cancer org lead)

Malawi

Stephen Ogweno

NCD Alliance of Kenya

Oral health condition

Kenya

Nupur Lalvani

Healthy India Alliance

Type 1 Diabetes

India

Jaime Barba

Mexico SaludHable

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Mexico

Melissa Lim

Brain Tumour Society (Singapore) Ltd.

Singapore

Johanna Ralston

World Obesity Federation

Cancer and autoimmune disorder

United States

Diana Gittens

Healthy Caribbean Coalition

Guyana

Bruno Helman

Advocacy Consultant, Brazilian Health Ministry, Pan American Health Organization

Brazil

Christopher Agbega

Ghana NCD Alliance

Hereditary Motor Sensory Neuropathy

Ghana

Charity Muturi

NCD Alliance of Kenya

Kenya