Country | Name of intersectoral mechanism | Chair | Membership | Year of establishment | Comments |
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Cambodia | Inter-ministerial committee for education and reduction of tobacco use; | Minister of Health | 12 government ministries and institutions | June 2001 | plays a major role in |
 |  |  |  |  | formulating the National Strategic Plan on tobacco control, law and legislation fortobacco control. |
 |  |  |  |  | NCD plan mentions about establishment of inter-ministerial working group by 2009, but status is not known at the time of study. |
Fiji | National NCD committee (similar multisectoral committee for health promotion, HIV/AIDS and suicide prevention. | Minister of Health | permanent secretary or directorate level of government, non-state actors and civil society groups, including faith-based groups | 2004 | Coordinate national implementation of the respective strategic plans developed by the same multi-stakeholders. |
Mongolia | National Council for public health | Prime-minister | Minister-level member ship from 8 line ministries (health, education, justice, infrastructure, food and agriculture, environment, foreign affairs and defence), the National Statistical Office, the HSUM and the Ulaanbaatar City Government | 2002 | Another multi-sectoral structure is Health Promotion Foundation headed by Minister of Health with membership from director, taxation office, Ministry of Finance. |
Malaysia | Cabinet Committee for a health promoting environment proposed in the National Strategic plan for NCD (2010–2014) | Deputy Prime-minster | Minister-level membership from 10 line ministries | 2011 | Has clear terms of reference to determine policies that support positive behavioural changes towards healthy eating and living. The Committee held its first meeting in April 2011. |
Philippines | Philippine coalition for prevention and control of NCD It institutionalized the annual public health forum on NCD prevention and control since 2006. | NA | Initial membership has 44 organizations including various medical specialty organizations and societies, professional organizations, non-government organizations, government agencies, academe. | 2004 | Each member organization signs an Memorandum of understanding that it will contribute to the programs and activities approved by the Coalition Council in consonance with its mandate, while maintaining its own independent programs and avoid open conflict with similar actions of the Coalition. |