Multi-Partner Trust Fund
About
The prime focus of the AMR Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) is to catalyse and accelerate progress of One Health approaches to AMR in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), especially through supporting the implementation of AMR National Action Plans (NAPs). The Fund supports joint and coordinated actions based on the AMR Quadripartite workplans to catalyse national level action and achieve, monitor and evaluate sustainable results in an integrated manner. Funding and crucial technical assistance is being provided to participating countries for various programmes, aimed at combatting AMR based on a robust Theory of Change jointly developed by the Quadripartite organizations.
The AMR MPTF was launched in June 2019 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH, founded as OIE), in collaboration with host governments. In mid-2021, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) officially became a co-signatory of the AMR MPTF, and the partnership was formally changed to the Quadripartite in 2022. Established for an initial five-year period (2019-2024), the Fund’s operational period was extended to 31 December 2030 to effectively support the multi-year country programmes in line with the SDG timelines. The Fund aims to leverage the long-standing partnership, combined technical knowledge and global convening power of the Quadripartite organizations to collectively support country One Health efforts in addressing complex dimensions of AMR across the human, animal, plant and environment interface.
The functions of the MPTF are to ensure:
- Coherence: provides a systematic coherent approach and joint interventions to address the global health risk of AMR, through shared responsibilities among the Quadripartite.
- Consolidation and specialization: allows the four organizations to capitalize on their collective knowledge, insights and technical capacities, generating strong synergies, for robust, cost-effective and efficient solutions to counter the spread of AMR.
- Innovation and scaled-up support: provides a joint mechanism for clear attribution and transparency of all sources of finance. The Fund’s activities - as detailed in the Theory of Change - are based on the application of best practices, innovative approaches and scaling up what has worked.
- Value for money and return on investment: shared planning and resource utilization, leveraging Quadripartite institutional influence and achieving economies of scale through the aggregation of interventions at country, regional and global level
- Risk management: reduces risks for partners and financial contributors through a comprehensive risk and results-based management system.
The AMR MPTF acts as a key catalyst for the implementation of the GAP AMR through the Strategic Framework and associated biennial workplans on AMR at global, regional and country level.