C/Can 2025 City Cancer Challenge Progress and achievements July 2018
Since the launch of C/Can 2025 in Davos in January 2017, with the support of our partners, we have implemented localised action in four cities that will improve access to and quality of cancer treatment and care for over 25 million people. Many milestones have been achieved, and through the outstanding engagement of the first C/Can 2025 cities, we have learned how to accelerate progress and increase the scope of impact. Based on lessons learned in the four Key Learning Cities and the feedback from those who have undertaken the assessments, the C/Can 2025 methodology from the needs assessment through to prioritisation, planning, and financing is being refined and documented to create an effective model that can deliver results and impact on a larger scale. International public and private organisations have been mobilised as C/Can 2025 partners to deliver technical assistance to the cities, and are now working on the ground in the Key Learning Cities.
To date, progress and achievements have been made in five key streams of work which are critical to the long-term success and sustainability of the C/Can 2025 initiative.
1. City-led improvement of quality infrastructure and services for cancer treatment and care • Activities are underway in four ‘Key Learning Cities’ as part of a first phase of learning how best to work with cities, particularly those in low- and middle-income countries. Asunción, Paraguay and Cali, Colombia joined in early 2017, followed mid-year by Yangon, Myanmar and Kumasi, Ghana in early 2018.
• City Executive Committees have been established in
every Key Learning City, representing a total of 75 highlevel local and national decision-makers, from both the public and private sector, leading C/Can 2025 activities in their respective cities.
• Three cities have completed the needs assessment
process, produced comprehensive situation analysis reports, and are now focused on prioritisation and activity planning. One city is currently finalising the needs assessment.
• Over 1,000 health professionals and 800 patients
have been directly involved in the city-wide needs assessments.
• City Mangers have been appointed in each Key
Learning City to support city-level implementation by providing on-site administrative and logistical support to key city stakeholders.
• As part of the scale-up of support to a wider network “Consensus building between the public and private sector is required to make lasting progress. Paraguay should use C/Can 2025 as a laboratory to then drive health system reform.” Santiago Peña, former Minister of Finance of Paraguay
of cities in every region, three ‘Challenge Cities’ have been selected to join following a call to action in late 2017: Kigali, Rwanda, Porto Alegre, Brazil and Tbilisi, Georgia.
• A rigorous application process was developed to ensure that the selection of Challenge Cities is evidence-based and equitable, including pre-defined criteria of merit, and due diligence visits.
Immediate Next Steps An additional Challenge City will be announced in Q3/4 of 2018, and a new targeted call for applications will be launched in October 2018 to identify the next set of Challenge Cities.