1. Project Coordination and Management
    Oversight leadership to ensure successful implementation of the project
  2. Situational analysis and preparations
    Benchmark current opportunities, resources, challenges and barriers in relation to CVD in all study sites
  3. Health promotion and prevention
    To engage stakeholders in the prevention of CVD
  4. Cardiovascular disease profiling
    To screen for CVD risk profile, provide individual counselling and refer/link high risk scorers to appropriate health care
  5. Care and management
    To implement a simplified algorithm for managing CVDs using task sharing and shifting strategies
  6. Follow-up and self-management
    To offer self management support to people with high risk factors for CVD
  7. Evaluation of the implementation process
    To evaluate project performance, barriers, opportunities, and good practices
  8. Dissemination and communication
    To raise awareness about the activities and outcomes of the SPICES project
  9. Ethics
    To ensure compliance with the 'ethics requirements'