| Overview : Avoidable illness and premature death from Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) constitutes one of the major challenges for development in the 21st century. In the 2011 UN Political Declaration and 2014 UN Outcome Document on NCDs, governments committed themselves to reducing risk factors for NCDs (tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, physical inactivity and unhealthy diet). This requires engagement of all stakeholders across government, NGOs, civil society and the private sector; policy coherence; and mutual accountability of different spheres of public policy making that have a bearing on NCDs. Significantly increased investments are necessary to meet the NCD-related Sustainable Development Goal targets. These investments will need to rely primarily on domestic public finance. WHO has identified ‘best buy’ interventions that will achieve the three goals of increasing financing for NCD interventions, growing the national economy and reducing the disease burden. From a return-on-investment perspective, prevention must remain the cornerstone of any national response to NCDs. The objective of this Request for Proposal (RFP) is to provide technical assistance for the health economist capacity component, for the completion of 3 NCD prevention and control investment cases within the UNDP/WHO Joint Programme on Catalyzing Multisectoral Action for NCDs. Deadline for Submission: 10 July 2016 (Midnight) Eastern Standard Time. Please complete and sign Annex 2. Applications can be emailed to: hhd@undp.org | 
