14th AMR MPTF Steering Committee meeting, Geneva, credit: AMR MPTF Secretariat
The AMR Multi-Partner Trust Fund (AMR MPTF) has approved a new round of grants supporting multisectoral action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) across ten countries. Endorsed at the 14th AMR MPTF Steering Committee meeting in Geneva, the new grants followed rigorous independent external review resulting in new projects approved for Egypt, Honduras, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Nepal, the Philippines and Sri Lanka.
In addition, second-phase grants were awarded to Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe, enabling these countries to deepen the impact and sustain the gains of earlier AMR MPTF investments. The renewed support will enable coordinated action facilitated by the Quadripartite organizations – the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) - strengthening multisectoral engagement across government, civil society, the private sector and academia.
The 14th Steering Committee meeting also marked the Committee's chairpersonship shift from WOAH to UNEP. Reflecting on the Steering Committee’s decisions, the incoming Chair of the Committee, Jacqueline Alvarez, noted that “the Steering Committee’s decisions signal strong confidence in the AMR MPTF and in the countries leading this work. With the support of our resource partners, we are entering a new phase of scale and impact – one where coordinated One Health action on AMR becomes the norm rather than the exception.” These reflections were echoed by the other Quadripartite leaders in attendance—Junxia Song (FAO), Yukiko Nakatani (WHO) and Monserrat Arroyo Kuribeña (WOAH), as well as the Director of the Quadripartite Joint Secretariat, Jean Pierre Nyemazi.
The continued engagement and long-term commitment of AMR MPTF Resource Partners -the European Commission, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland remain central to the Fund’s ability to catalyze transformative change. AMR MPTF Resource Partners played an active role during the 14th Steering Committee meeting in strategic deliberations, prioritization discussions, technical and financial backing, and advocacy for strengthened One Health approaches to AMR.
The AMR MPTF continues to tackle persistent gaps in multisectoral coordination that are essential to address for sustainable, whole-of-government and whole-of-society implementation of AMR National Action Plans. Findings from the latest Tracking AMR Country Self-assessment Survey (TrACSS October 2025) show that nearly 75 percent of countries lack a functional multisectoral approach, underscoring the urgency of strengthening coordinated One Health action on AMR.
With a footprint in 21 countries across Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean regions of the world, the Fund has already contributed to measurable improvements in AMR surveillance, data collection, infection prevention and control, antimicrobial stewardship and behaviour change. These multi-year collaborations are strengthening national capacities to operationalize a One Health approach and deliver lasting systems change.
As the Fund builds on this momentum, the close of the Steering Committee meeting reaffirmed the collective leadership of the Quadripartite organizations - FAO, UNEP, WHO and WOAH together with the active engagement of AMR MPTF Resource partners – in steering the strategic direction of the AMR MPTF. A central driver of this renewed ambition has been the strong and sustained engagement of AMR MPTF Resource Partners, whose leadership has been instrumental in expanding the Fund’s geographic reach and strengthen multisectoral approaches to AMR. This shared stewardship comes at a pivotal moment as the Fund prepares for expansion in alignment with Member State commitments under the 2024 UN Political Declaration on Antimicrobial Resistance. With the support of forward-looking resource partners— including the European Commission, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland — The Fund is well positioned to welcome new contributing partners, alongside our long-standing champions (the EC, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK), to accelerate coordinated, multisectoral action on AMR across more than 40 low- and middle-income countries by 2030.