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56. Promote the capacity-building of non-communicable-disease-related nongovernmental organizations at the national and regional levels, in order to realize
their full potential as partners in the prevention and control of non-communicable
diseases;
Research and development
57. Promote actively national and international investments and strengthen
national capacity for quality research and development, for all aspects related to the
prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, in a sustainable and
cost-effective manner, while noting the importance of continuing to incentivize
innovation;
58. Promote the use of information and communications technology to improve
programme implementation, health outcomes, health promotion, and reporting and
surveillance systems and to disseminate, as appropriate, information on affordable,
cost-effective, sustainable and quality interventions, best practices and lessons
learned in the field of non-communicable diseases;
59. Support and facilitate non-communicable-disease-related research, and its
translation, to enhance the knowledge base for ongoing national, regional and global
action;
Monitoring and evaluation
60. Strengthen, as appropriate, country-level surveillance and monitoring systems,
including surveys that are integrated into existing national health information
systems and include monitoring exposure to risk factors, outcomes, social and
economic determinants of health, and health system responses, recognizing that
such systems are critical in appropriately addressing non-communicable diseases;
61. Call upon the World Health Organization, with the full participation of
Member States, informed by their national situations, through its existing structures,
and in collaboration with United Nations agencies, funds and programmes and other
relevant regional and international organizations, as appropriate, building on
continuing efforts to develop, before the end of 2012, a comprehensive global
monitoring framework, including a set of indicators, capable of application across
regional and country settings, including through multisectoral approaches, to
monitor trends and to assess progress made in the implementation of national
strategies and plans on non-communicable diseases;
62. Call upon the World Health Organization, in collaboration with Member States
through the governing bodies of the World Health Organization, and in collaboration
with United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, and other relevant regional
and international organizations, as appropriate, building on the work already under
way, to prepare recommendations for a set of voluntary global targets for the
prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, before the end of 2012;
63. Consider the development of national targets and indicators based on national
situations, building on guidance provided by the World Health Organization, to
focus on efforts to address the impacts of non-communicable diseases and to assess
the progress made in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases and
their risk factors and determinants;
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