This regional report provides the results of the 2019 noncommunicable disease (NCD) country capacity survey in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. It offers an overview of the current capacities of the countries of the Region to prevent and control NCDs particularly in regard to the four key areas of: governance; prevention and reduction of risk factors; surveillance; monitoring and evaluation; and health care. The report aims to inform the work of decision-makers in ministries of health and other sectors related to health as well as NCD managers physicians clinicians researchers the media and others.