African Regional Antimicrobial Resistance Lessons Learned Workshop Kicks Off In Senegal
July 10, 2023
By Samuel Ouma
Day 1 of the African Regional Antimicrobial Resistance Lessons Learned Workshop in Senegal
The African Regional Antimicrobial Resistance Lessons Learned workshop kicked off in Senegal on Monday, July 10, 2023.
The 4-day event organized by the Quadripartite organizations such as FAO, WHO, and UNEP brings together AMR Resource partners, regional Implementation Partners like AU, Africa CDC, AU-IBAR, Regional Economic, etc., AMR project stakeholders involved in the project implementation, regional Quadripartite and AMR MPTF Headquarter Secretariat.
Other attendees are global MPTF AMR Legal Project representatives, lead Consultants, AMR National Focal persons and regulators from the respective Quadripartite sectors and In-country, implementing Quadripartite Staff.
The workshop allows AMR stakeholders to get together and share thoughts, expertise, and solutions to difficulties encountered in AMR activities in the African Region.
It will also bring together AMR policymakers and technical experts from the Quadripartite sectors to share ideas, experiences, problems, and best practices related to governance, multisectoral coordination, and the five primary objectives defined in the GAP-AMR plan and most country NAPs.
The event will also serve as a venue for providing targeted assistance to leading countries in establishing realistic mechanisms and processes to catalyze AMR collaboration and action.
During the event, countries will also be introduced to the Quadripartite One Health Legislative Assessment Tool for AMR, which will examine their relevant legal frameworks to address AMR and suggest the potential to strengthen such frameworks.
The program will feature specific country presentations with Q&A, interactive group work and plenary discussions, and practical and operational capacity-building sessions.
Several outcomes are expected at the end of the workshop, which will end on July 13, including collated and published documented experiences and expertise for several AMR project cycles.
A comprehensive grasp of the obstacles and potential for building an African-wide AMR working plan is also envisaged.
An "AFRICAN Region AMR toolkit" based on best practices for effective project execution will be created, as will the introduction of the One Health Legislative Assessment Tool for AMR.
Other expected outcomes include advocacy and communication tools/documents to promote the visibility of the various AMR projects to support additional Fund mobilization from current and potential resource partners, as well as recommendations among AMR MPTF phase I and II countries to propose for phase III of the AMR MPTF to the Steering Committee and for overall resource mobilization.
