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The Cameroon Civil Society NCD Alliance focuses on empowering civil society organisations working on NCDs to advocate at both local and national levels through capacity building, unified action and stakeholder consultations.
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The Cameroon NCD Alliance develops and maintain the capacity needed by members to continue the work needed for the impact.
History of the Alliance
In October 2016, the importance of creating a Cameroon NCD Alliance to harness the power of unity within the response to the burden of NCDs in Cameroon in line with global and regional level recognition of the role of Civil Society was clear. Following representation of the CBC Health Services and Cameroon at the Global Dialogue on Framework for Engagement of Non-State Actors by the WHO in Mauritius Balaclava.
Several meetings and contacts were made among organizations working on NCDs in Cameroon and the alliance was finally created on May 4, 2018 during the conference on Diabetes and other NCDs, holding at Hilton Hotel, Yaoundé at a meeting of the delegates from Cameroon.
The following organizations were represented namely Cameroon Baptist Convention (CBC) Health Services, Health of Populations in Transition (HoPiT), Biaka University Institute of Buea, Recherche – Santé – Development (RSD), Cameroon Diabetes Association (CDA) and HYC. Meanwhile, the Cameroon Cardiac Society, Value Health Africa and Cameroon Coalition to counter tobacco who were previously engaged in the efforts but were not in this meeting were informed this outcome of the Yaoundé meeting. The creation of the alliance was announced in the presence of the Global NCD Alliance as well as Ministry of Health Representatives who all looked forward to fruitful collaboration to move the NCD agenda in Cameroon forward with this key arm of Civil Society action groups, and Prof. Mbanya Jean Claude, President of Health of Populations in Transition (HoPiT) was endorsed as Interim Chair and Mr. Mbiydzenyuy Ferdinant Sonyuy, Program Manager for NCDs from the CBC Health Services as the Interim Secretary General to lead the establishment of the Alliance.