• Six online focus groups with participants representing 35 countries and 39 NCDs exploring advocacy with PLWNCDs from around the world.

    Focus groups explored the role and meaning of advocacy for PLWNCDs, sharing their learning, the benefits and the challenges of advocacy. How they could feel more supported and engaged in decisions and, what they need to be empowered to influence the things that matter to them.

    Six paired dyad case study interviews exploring:

    • power dynamics and power reorientation towards individuals with living experience

    • informed decision-making and health literacy

    • community engagement across broader networks and health systems

    • living experiences as evidence and expertise

    • exclusion and the importance of involving marginalised groups

    • advocacy and human rights

    Other engagement activities

    • Advocacy insight

    • Deliberative discussions and story sharing

    • Partnership delivery and skills transfer with WHO

 

  • PLWNCDs

  • The WHO

  • Key stakeholders within health

  • The diversity of stakeholders to engage. Cultures, timezones, needs and experiences

  • The personal nature of the subjects being discussed. Encouraging open and honest dialogue in a ‘safe space’

  • Multiple participants with mental health challenges