The NCD Alliance has developed this Global NCD Agenda for Resilience and Recovery from COVID-19 with the aim of reaching policymakers seeking to build back fairer. We recognise that the pandemic is far from over and that responses to date have been inadequate, revealing failings in international solidarity and exacerbating inequalities. Nevertheless, the pandemic response provides an opportunity to learn lessons and ensure that innovations, resources, and technologies mobilised can also have a transformative impact to address noncommunicable diseases  (NCDs) - the world’s most prevalent diseases, which each year cut short over 40 million lives.