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Capacity Building

Capacity Building. Group 2. Capacity Building. Empowering the organization Building on resources Succession planning for continuity Pooling of resources Creating linkages Harnessing strengths for a common goal. Group Definition.

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Capacity Building

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  1. Capacity Building Group 2

  2. Capacity Building • Empowering the organization • Building on resources • Succession planning for continuity • Pooling of resources • Creating linkages • Harnessing strengths for a common goal

  3. Group Definition • Harnessing strengths, working on weaknesses and creating linkages among stakeholders to have a positive impact on the wider society

  4. What is needed • Increasing the awareness of political directorate NCD prevention and control in order for them to address the issue in a more timely fashion • Civil society must serve as the vehicle for such action by beefing up their technical and administrative competencies • Health information system training

  5. Key Regional Needs 25 - 25 • Where we are now and establishment of a baseline using the Port of Spain Declaration and the UNHLM • Training in surveillance, monitoring and evaluation and making the results actionable to civil society • Academia must continue to play a part in making information translatable and actionable to civil society

  6. Tobacco • Learn from regional partners who are more advanced in tobacco prevention and control legislation, taxation etc • Capacity building in tobacco should include enhancing the knowledge base of the FCTC and its articles • NGO assistance in administrative function and legal competencies

  7. Obesity • Public education on major contributing factors to this scourge - Training in the use of all available media A communication mechanism to channel public health information to manufacturers and distributors to influence healthy choices • Demand – public education on the dangers of obesity especially in schools e.g. the school feeding programmes and the development of national guidelines- civil society can play a part

  8. Alcohol • Engage Ministry of Tourisms to take rum out of the fun and the sun • Enactment, enhancementand enforcement of new and old legislation – e.g. breathalyzer testing • Healthy lifestyles compulsory in school curriculum

  9. Physical activity and exercise • Compulsory physical education in primary and secondary schools by training a cohort of PE teachers • Healthy lifestyles compulsory in school curriculum • Engage schools in healthy lifestyles programmes • Wellness programmes involving private enterprise and insurance companies

  10. Thank you

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