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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), and the World Health Organization (WHO) have been working together for decades to address risks at the human, animal, plant and environment interface. Since 2018, the three organizations joined forces as a Tripartite to strengthen their long-standing partnership, with a renewed focus on tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR) from a One Health approach.

This alliance was strengthened with the progressive engagement of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in this work, which is also essential to support governments, civil society, and the private sector in addressing AMR risks related to the environment. In 2022, the Tripartite formally became the Quadripartite as it officially welcomed UNEP in the alliance to accelerate coordinated strategy on human, animal and environmental health.

Building on the momentum of increased collaboration, FAO, UNEP, WHO, and WOAH developed a Strategic Framework for collaboration on AMR. This Framework reflects the joint work of the four organizations to advance a One Health response to AMR at the global, regional and country level. It broadly supports the implementation of the five pillars of the Global Action Plan on AMR, as well as strengthening global AMR governance.