Our Projects
WDF Project (WDF 22-1892):
A trans-formative 3-year project addressing diabetes and other NCDs across Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and Zanzibar. Through strategic media engagement, community outreach, and creative professionals like artists and musicians, the project has trained over 250 media personnel, reached more than 20,000 students and 1000 teachers in 6 countries, and developed tailored advocacy materials. Goals include building media capacity, creating inclusive advocacy platforms, and fostering partnerships to drive systemic change. This project is being supported by the World Diabetes Foundation
CISU Project:
A 4-year initiative (since 2023) that focuses on advocacy within the East African Community. Supported by CISU through DNCDA, it aims to drive increased investments and policy development for comprehensive NCD care across all member states.
Regional Advocacy Track (with NCDA):
This track works with regional NCD alliances to strengthen coalition-building and advocacy efforts. It ensures effective linkages between national, regional, and global mobilisation in preparation for the UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs in September 2025.
Accountability
Our accountability strategy is twofold:
A focus on internal management and operations of the EANCDA. This is important because the Alliance needs to be well managed before it calls on governments and other duty bearers to account for their responsibilities on NCD prevention and control. Secondly, as an organization that is promoting the voice of PLWNCDs, we need to have accountability for our actions to such people and other partners we collaborate with.
Call upon duty bearers such as governments and multilateral organizations to account for their acts of omission or commission. Governments have a duty to provide for the health of people in line with SDG 3 and Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Advocacy
Impress clients and colleagues with professional service and delicious food that suits the occasion, whether it’s a board meeting, conference, or company party.
Capacity Building
In order to deliver the ambitious agenda of making NCDs a high development priority that transcends the health sector, EANCDA undertakes internal capacity building and resource mobilisation. This includes strengthening capacity at the regional, national, and local levels.
Knowledge Exchange
The success of our NCD advocacy work depends a lot on communication and sharing of knowledge and best practices. There is a huge information gap on NCDs among policymakers and communities, and indeed among advocates. This is in part due to the complexity of the subject that has been a challenge for advocates to convert the science into everyday language for people and the many actors and campaigns on health and development, all of which make the communication field very crowded.
