PEN Plus Partnership Strategic Plan
2025–2028

Severe, chronic noncommunicable diseases—particularly childhood-onset conditions such as type 1 diabetes, sickle cell disease, and rheumatic and congenital heart disease—are largely absent from major global health funding priorities and policies. The NCDI Poverty Network is leading the charge to change this reality.

The rapid expansion of PEN-Plus and its adoption by all the countries in the World Health Organization’s African Region are a testament to the growing demand for this model of care. Further expansion will require an increasing decentralization of program leadership, a higher level of external financing, and well-managed public financing mechanisms.

In joining their respective strengths, the global partners of the NCDI Poverty Network have already made significant progress in solving one of the world’s starkest health inequities. We invite you to join us in this ambitious work. The PEN-Plus model represents both an opportunity to dig deep into issues that matter to your mission and an outsized impact as part of the joint work of Network members.