Countries enabled to reinforce partnerships across sectors

increased domestic and development financing for scaling up action on health promotion and the disease-related Sustainable Development Goals; provide capacity-buildingand specialized technical assistance in the field of fiscal measures for health, particularly on excise taxation on tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverage products; provide capacity-buildingand specialized technical assistance on health law, including supporting development of laws and regulations, and assisting Member States to address industry interference, including through legal arguments and litigation; strengthen the institutional capacity, mechanisms and mandates of relevant authorities to implement population-based policy interventions, including for the reduction in tobacco and alcohol use, unhealthy diets and physical inactivity through whole-of-government and whole-of-society actions and responses; adopt evidence-based and cost-effective nutrition and healthy diet policy measures through a multisectoral and multistakeholder approach; and strengthen diet-related interventions that prevent noncommunicable diseases obesity, through the life course approach. In producing technical products on norms/standard, data and research, the Secretariat will: develop norms, standards and tools for: (i) health education, health literacy and health diplomacy; (ii) strengthening national multistakeholder dialogue mechanisms for implementing multisectoral action plans and effective multisectoral engagement; (iii) strengthening transparent national accountability mechanisms for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases; (iv) using fiscal measures to reduce health care costs and generate a domestic revenue stream for development; and (v) social, behavioural and community engagement interventions; develop tools, normative evidence, and market surveillance to provide best practice guidance for countries on how to use fiscal measures to improve health, reduce health care costs and generate a revenue stream for development; develop tools illustrating how to implement WHO guidance through laws and regulations, including tools comparing legal approaches to implementation and tools describing legal considerations for Member States; prepare data products, for example, a report on the progress made by countries in attaining target 3.4 of the Sustainable Development Goals, a register of the commitments made by Member States, United Nations entities and non-State actors towards the attainment of target 3.4, and a final report of the WHO GCM/NCD Working Group on health education and health literacy for noncommunicable diseases; and develop and update guidance to reduce the negative impact on health of reformulation of foods, food labelling, marketing policies and fiscal and pricing policies.