World Health Organization UN and WHO Resolutions and Declarations Resolutions and Declarations on General Health 11 April 2014 Report

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1. The Executive Board at its 134th session noted earlier versions of the reports on the follow-up to the Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases,1 and adopted decision EB134(1). Documents EB134/14 and EB134/14 Add.1 have been combined and updated in the following report (see paragraphs 2, 5, 7, 8, 10-15), which includes:
– descriptions of:
• progress in implementing the action plan for the global strategy for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2008–2013
• WHO’s role in the preparation, implementation and follow-up to the United Nations General Assembly comprehensive review and assessment in 2014 of the progress achieved in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, and
– consideration of:
• the terms of reference for the global coordination mechanism on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases
• the terms of reference for the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases
• a limited set of action plan indicators for the WHO global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2013–2020.
2. This report is submitted in response to Health Assembly resolutions WHA61.14 and WHA66.10. It provides an update on the work done by the Secretariat as follow-up to the Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases (adopted in United Nations General Assembly resolution 66/2) and United Nations Economic and Social Council resolution E/RES/2013/12, and in preparation for the General Assembly’s comprehensive review and assessment later in 2014 of the progress achieved in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases.

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