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Capacity-building - The development of the technical expertise to plan, implement and evaluate interventions to prevent or control non-communicable diseases in a variety of settings. Areas of expertise in capacity-building include: problem identification, epidemiological and behavioural risk factor analysis, coalition-building, program planning, marketing, program implementation, knowledge of intervention methodologies, evaluation (including process, impact and outcome), and the ability to obtain ongoing support and funding through administrative and legislative means, beyond the life of any particular source of funding.

Coalition-building - The establishment of a temporary alliance of factions, parties, individuals or groups for a specific purpose (in the case of program development, to support or collaborate on a program).

Community mobilization - A process to enable communities to understand and control the circumstances affecting health; it acknowledges that agents of change can be found wherever the decisions that affect people’s ability to influence their health are made and implemented.

Delivery channel/settings - Locations in which delivery of the project occurs.

Dissemination - Transfer of skills or of  technical or scientific knowledge to communities, professional organizations or government agencies.

Evaluation - A periodic review and assessment of a program to determine, in light of current circumstances, the adequacy of its objectives and its design, as well as its intended and unintended results.

Health promotion - Any planned combination of educational, political, regulatory and organizational supports for actions and conditions of living conducive to the health of individuals, groups or communities (L. Green). Health promotion is also the process of enabling people to increase their control over, and to improve their health. To reach a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, an individual or group must be able to identify and realize aspirations, satisfy needs, and change or cope with the environment. In health promotion, therefore, health is seen as a resource for everyday living, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept, emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities. Therefore, health promotion is not just the responsibility of the health sector, and its concerns go beyond healthy lifestyles to well-being (Ottawa Charter for health Promotion, 1986).

Intermediary target group - Groups other than the primary target group targeted by the project (i.e., A project targeting children’s health behaviours could also target parents or teachers because they are important role models for children).

Intervention strategy - A plan of action that anticipates barriers and resources in relation to achieving a specific objective.

Network - Refers to the number and types of social relations and links between individuals or institutions that may provide access to, or mobilization of, social support for health.

Outcome - A change in the current or future health status or health related behaviour that can be attributed to a health care intervention or health policy measure. In the field of health, the result of impact of policy measures of health interventions in terms of a change in health status or health behaviour.

Output - The result of an activity. In a factory, the output is a product. In health care, the output can be a service.

Prevention - Refers to approaches and activities to reduce the likelihood of a disease or disorder affecting an individual, to interrupt or slow the progress of the disorder, or to reduce disability. Primary prevention reduces the likelihood of a disease or disorder developing in an individual. Secondary prevention interrupts, prevents or minimizes the progress of a disease or disorder at an early stage; and tertiary prevention focuses on preventing the damage that has already occurred from becoming worse.

Primary target group - The group that the project was aiming to influence directly and aiming to influence the most compared to other audiences.

Program champion - An individual who strongly supports a project, and advocates for its continuation.

Project - A group of planned activities linked by common objectives and managed by a definable centre of responsibility.

Resources - Includes money, materials and staff (including their skills, aspirations and attitudes).

Skills - Refers to the ability to use knowledge effectively and readily in the performance of a task.

Sustainability - Refers to the extent to which a new program becomes embedded or integrated into the “normal” operations of an organization. When an innovation is institutionalized, it becomes an integral part of the organization’s mission, hierarchy, standard operations and annual budget.

Volunteer - An individual who offers him/herself or his/her services of his/her own free will, without expectation of payment.