National NCDI Poverty Commissions – comprised of national policymakers, clinicians, academic researchers, health planning and financing experts, implementing partners and donors, and members of civil society, including people living with NCDIs – are the backbone of the NCDI Poverty Network.
Fifteen National Commissions launched the Network in December 2020 as a platform for global, regional, national and local leaders to advance the policy, research, and advocacy agendas of the Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission and implement its recommendations. An additional seven countries established national commissions and joined the Network in 2021-22.
These NCDI Poverty Commissions have established evidence-based and locally-driven processes to determine health-sector priorities relevant to NCDIs in their respective countries and have led policy, research, and advocacy initiatives to bridge the gap for NCDIs on the path to Universal Health Care (UHC). Many commissions have published and widely disseminated their findings and recommendations.
At country-level, NCDI Poverty Commissions catalyze national efforts to reduce the death and suffering of those doubly afflicted by extreme poverty and NCDIs through a four-phase theory of change.
Today, 21 countries have established national NCDI Poverty Commissions and are participating in the Network:
