Documenting the experiences
of people living with NCDs

Lucia Feito Allonca
Oduor Kevin Otieno
Anita Sabidi
Joseph Rukelibuga
Ashla Rani
Chitrika de Mel

Documenting the experiences
of people living with NCDs

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Brenda Chitindi
Takwe Boniface Njecko
Neema Mohamed
Wendy Reaser
Chikhulupiliro Stanley Ng'ombe

About NCD Diaries

The NCD Diaries use rich and immersive multimedia approaches to share lived experiences to drive change, using a public narrative framework.

As part of the Our Views, Our Voices initiative, the NCD Diaries are a participatory, community-based and multimedia storytelling project that illustrates and highlights individual lived experiences and calls for action on NCDs.

NCD Diaries and themes

Each series of NCD Diaries will have a thematic focus, drawing on the key pillars of the global Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs and, potentially, more specific themes, depending on relevant advocacy opportunities.

The current NCD Diaries theme is:

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my healthcare providers’ impact on my NCD Journey

My healthcare providers' impact on my NCD journey

The third series of the NCD Diaries project is based on the theme: my healthcare providers’ impact on my NCD Journey.

Through their Diaries, the lived experience advocates shed light on this very foundational relationship between people living with NCDs and their healthcare providers, celebrating positive experiences as well as highlighting challenges. This includes patterns of communication, and experiences with diagnosis and various stages of care. The Diaries conclude with each advocate’s hopes for change when it comes to the state of healthcare providers in their countries and/or regions.

This third NCD Diaries series was produced from April through August 2022.

 

NCD Diaries are created in three formats:

NCD Diaries visual format

01 Visual 

A visual storytelling format featuring a series of images that represent the real and personal experiences of Diarists and their interaction with the healthcare system, local context and community. Drawing from elements of the PhotoVoice approach, NCDA will support Diarists in capturing images representing their lived experiences and contextualise them within the Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs to present their recommendations and calls to action. The Diary will take the form of a series of up to five photos and accompanying captions.

NCD Diaries visual format

NCD Diaries audio format

02 Audio podcast

A spoken word/podcast format through which Diarists will share their experiences and challenges of living with NCDs, their local context, community interactions and calls to action in a conversational manner, either in first person or in conversations with others, e.g. family, community members, advocates, etc. The Diary will take the form of two to three fifteen-minute recordings.

NCD Diaries written format

03 Written text

A blog/testimonial format through which Diarists will share their lived experiences through storytelling and public narrative, reporting on experiences, challenges of living with NCDs and recommendations for change. The Diary will take the form of up to three written entries of a maximum of 250 words.

NCD Diaries written format

Explore NCD diaries

Visual Diary iconAnita Sabidi

Anita Sabidi

Written Diary iconWendy Reaser

Wendy Reaser

Written Diary iconTakwe Boniface Njecko

Takwe Boniface Njecko

Written Diary iconChitrika De Mel

Chitrika De Mel

Written Diary iconJoseph Rukelibuga

Joseph Rukelibuga

Visual Diary iconLucía Feito Allonca

Lucia Feito Allonca

Written Diary iconBrenda Chitindi

Brenda Chitindi

Podcast Diary iconChikhulupiliro Stanley Ng'ombe

Chikhulupiliro Stanley Ng'ombe

Visual Diary iconNeema Mohamed

Neema Mohamed

Visual Diary iconOduor Kevin Otieno

Oduor Kevin

Written Diary iconAshla Rani MP

Ashla Rani MP

The current theme is

My healthcare providers’ impact on my NCD journey

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The NCD Diaries are possible thanks to NCD Alliance’s partnership with the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.