Countries enabled to address risk factors through multisectoral actions

regulations and changes in public expenditure) in order to create supportive environments; and advocating for their adoption; advocating for policy and financial commitments at country and regional levels to implement the WHO-recommended interventions in order to address risk factors through multisectoral actions and establish adequate accountability mechanisms to track their implementation; engaging in non-health sector policy forums to advocate for policy changes related to the implementation of WHO-recommended interventions to address risk factors; monitoring the status and trend of risk factors related to unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, tobacco use and harmful use of alcohol and analysing their impact on health; identifying good practices in addressing risk factors through multisectoral actions and developing innovative solutions; developing awareness campaigns to promote healthier lifestyles, using innovative communication approaches to encourage behavioural change; advocating for health promotion within health systems, such as through community engagement; stakeholder analysis and health literacy; increased awareness of health risks; and building trust prior to public health emergencies, particularly in the light of the important role of health promotion in the response to outbreaks; and leveraging global platform, including the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 and the Nutrition for Growth Summit, in order to improve health. The Secretariat will support countries to: analyse the magnitude and impact of noncommunicable disease risk factors at national and subnational levels, taking into consideration gender and equity; design multisectoral action plans, including public expenditure plans, to reduce health risk factors and create health-supportive environments, taking into consideration WHO-recommended interventions; develop public policies in line with the evidence-based interventions WHO recommends to prevent noncommunicable disease risk factors and prevent and manage obesity, including policies on marketing, public procurement, product pricing, public information, sales outlet zoning, urban design and product standards; implement the WHO-recommended 16 cost-effective, affordable and evidence-based ?best buys? for noncommunicable diseases and 70 ?good buys?, which form the basis of a set of knowledge- and evidence-based technical packages, and provide models of policy, legislative and regulatory measures, including fiscal measures, through direct technical support and capacity-building; develop public-focused campaigns aimed at behavioural change, using various social media and traditional media channels; and effectively monitor and evaluate current health-related policies and programmes designed to address risk factors related to unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, tobacco use and harmful use of alcohol through multisectoral actions, and document their impact. develop and strengthen country capacity to use health promotion instruments to reduce risks to health.