Cancer Control Partnership. And specifically about the portal and all of the tools that

we have available to the Cancer Control Community. We built this partnership and gathered the

various stakeholder together to respond to the activities at the World Health Organization

level. Specifically we believe that cancer control practioners can work together to fulfill

the goals set out by the World Health Organization. They have a 25 percent reduction in non communicable

disease deaths by 2025. We think that some of the overarching framework and goals that

are outlined in this global action plan will actually help guide the activities of this

partnership and of the practitioners over the next 10 years. We have the global monitoring

framework, the global action plan that was ratified by the World Health Assembly in May

of 2013 and also the global coordinating mechanism which will help organize activities at the

global level. Now what does that mean for individuals at the local level. So if we think

about local implementation we really need to make sure that individual within a country

have the framework and the support to set their own priorities. And we need to make

sure that these priorities are appropriate in the local context. We need to make sure

that the plans are adopted and that we're really look at an integrated approach to ensure

that governments in a holistic way and in a multisectoral way address the cancer burden.

And finally a plan is no good if it's not implemented and if the outcomes are not assessed.

So we want to provide the technical assistance to this partnership to ensure that governments,

ministries and other stakeholders will be able to report on progress and outcomes. And

something I do like to remember is that a goal without a plan is just a wish. And so

if we don't have the implementation activities associated with the plan, we'll actually never

achieve the expected outcomes. So what is the International Cancer Control Partnership?

Well it was formed in November of 2012 by multiple different organizations who had individually

engaged in cancer control planning efforts. And the National Cancer Institute, along with

the key partner, the union for International Cancer Control felt that we could bring these

interested stakeholders together and have a partnership vision where every country had

a National Cancer Control Plan that was of high quality. And that these plans would provide

the framework for a systematic and equitable implementation. So our long term goal, as

I mentioned, is that all partners have a Quality Cancer Control Plan and that we have to make

sure that countries have the ability and the support to prioritize cancer in order to reach

that goal that I mentioned of reducing the non-communicable disease burden by 25 percent

by the year 2025. So this slide outlines some of the various partners who have come together

and indicated that they feel that they have some role in addressing the global cancer

burden. They're represented by their logos here and also outlined in text on the side.

We're constantly seeking additional partners who may have a regional interest and you can

see there are some regional partners noted here, Aortic in Stockholm for example, RINC

is another regional partner. And then there are partners who have an overarching goal,

who may have interest in various regions of the world. And so we tried to bring them all

together to understand everyone's role in this fight. So what are our priorities? We

want to make sure that we have the ability to assist cancer planners and other public

health actors as they begin to think about addressing their cancer burden. So what they

think about implementing cancer control plans, cancer policies at the national level how

can this partnership help to develop and implement an evaluate these different cancer plans and

priorities. The priorities of the partnership are to ensure that we have advocacy that can

help practioners in a country to make sure that cancer is deemed a priority as policies

are developed. We want to make sure that technical assistance that we provide is coordinated

across the partners. We don't want people duplicating efforts or not being responsive

to requests for technical assistance. We want to disseminate and potentially help develop

evidence based materials to address data gaps. We want to help promote communities of practice

in specific areas of need and we're calling these the Networks. And finally we want to

provide this one stop shopping of best practice resources. And we call this the ICCP portal.

And I'll talk more about that. So what is the ICCP Portal? We see it as a one stop shop

for cancer planners and policy makers to find the materials and tools that they need in

order to focus on cancer control. The link is here, ICCP-Portal.org. And what we've done

is pool together various tools and resources that we think will help individuals within

countries, ministries of health and it is all gathered together in one place. And we

think it's really a knowledge sharing platform that has interactive maps and I'll go through

some screen shots of those maps. A library of materials and tools that can be searched

and sorted. We have case studies and we're always looking for more examples from countries

of how they've actually addressed those developing a plan, implementing the plan or even evaluating

the plan. We're providing technical assistance opportunities in the development implementation

or evaluation of a plan. We have repositories of prevention campaigns so that others can

learn from the experience and finally events, global initiatives and more. So the library

of materials and tools we think is really one of the bright spots on this portal. We've

gone through and gathered publicly available cancer plans. We have methodologies, assessments

and tool kits that are available and we hope will be widely used by individuals thinking

about various aspects of the cancer control spectrum. And we also, through the interactive

part of the website, have the ability for individuals to suggest resources. So it could

be to provide a resource that you already have developed or it could be to suggest a

resource that needs to be developed. And then we can, again, either develop the resource

or try to find individuals who may actually be able to do that for us. The next slide

I have in here I just wanted folks to see that there is a variety of ways for plans

to be represented. It doesn't matter how glossy your plan is. If it is a black and white version,

it doesn't matter what language it is in, as long as it is being utilized, it's being

looked at for the ability to be implemented and evaluated. The ability to be costed and

ensuring that people refresh it and utilize it when thinking through cancer control policy

decisions. As I mentioned, there's this interactive map and it's a searchable data base of the

plans both for cancer and also more inclusively for non communicable disease plans. The 127

plans that are available, and this does include the different plans in the United States are

available to be downloaded and reviewed and, you know, evaluated on a per country basis

to determine if the activities outlined in any of these cancer plans would be appropriate

for your country context. We've also been able to gather 30 NCD plans. And we think

that this is really an important component because as countries are looking at valuable

health care resources, valuable prevention resources, the common risk factors across

the NCDs need to be considered not just in the context of cancer, but also have the impact

cardio vascular, diabetes or chronic lung disease. And so we think that these NCD plans

provide a valuable framework for countries to look at how have others integrated these

various diseases into a single plan. We have plans in English, French and Spanish and the

fact that the data base is searchable makes it easy to identify or pull out the either

country aspect you're looking for or specific cancer that you're looking for. Now I mentioned

case studies. We're working with some of our partners to whom we have previously provided

technical assistance, specifically right now Morocco in Turkey. And we want them to broadcast

their example and their experience in working through the process of developing cancer control

plans. We're certainly interested in posting additional experiences and [inaudible] book

to you all to provide those case studies or to contact us so that we can start the process

of advertising our experience. Another part of the website is in advertising our ability

to provide technical assistance. So at the very bottom of the slide, I'll jump down there

first. We have some of the examples of technical assistance that some of the partners provide.

This is not an exhaustive list. It's just exemplar. As a representative of the National

Cancer Institute I can say that we work very closely with country teams to bring them together

to start to think about what a cancer plan in their country might look like. What work

force do they need to think about? What are there data needs? There are fellowships from

the Unit for International Cancer Control and also from IARC and then the impact mission

that the IEA pact program provides are really an assessment of the existing conditions within

a country that helps to do some of the bullet points above so the IEA pact missions as well

as the leadership forums help countries to look at what are some of the key gaps that

may be need to be filled by this cancer plan. We're looking at core elements for future

activities within the partnership. So what could some of the partners provide in terms

of technical assistance? And actually it's a response to what a demonstrated need by

the community. So within the partnership the objectives of the technical assistance are

to make sure that we meet the training needs across the spectrum of cancer control. We

want to make sure that policy makers at all levels feel that they have the support of

this partnership in making cancer control policy decisions. And finally we really want

to coordinate across the partners. As I mentioned before we do not want to duplicate efforts

but we want to ensure that there's a streamlined process. So how can you engage with the International

Cancer Control Partnership? There's really the opportunity to engage all members and

all interested individuals through the ICCP Portal. So there's a -- individuals can visit

the website and there's an email address at the bottom. We're constantly looking for resources,

training materials and other tools that could be easily integrated into the portal. As I

mentioned on a previous slide we're interested in case studies on your individual country's

experience in Cancer Control Planning, the implementation of that plan and specifically

the evaluation of that plan. And we're looking for participants for the networks. We do currently

have a cancer prevention network and we believe that as the need or interest arises we could

have other networks that emerge within the context of the partnership. So in addition

to the contact information for technical assistance on the portal I've listed the contact information

for the NNI Center for Global Health. Our website, our email, we do have a Twitter handle.

And again I thank you for your interest in the International Cancer Control Partnership

and for your listening through this Webinar.