FAO recently launched its new Action Plan on AMR (2021-2025), which presents a series of objectives on five identified strategic AMR areas - including increasing stakeholder awareness and engagement to foster change (Objective 1).  This is envisaged to contribute to achieving FAO's goals on AMR: (1) reduce AMR prevalence and slow the emergence and spread of resistance across the food chain and for all food and agriculture sectors; and (2) preserve the ability to treat infections with effective and safe antimicrobials to sustain food and agriculture production. Aligned with this overarching global objective, the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) is developing its Regional Strategy to efficiently and effectively cascade the global FAO Action Plan to countries in the region.

FAO RAP will again virtually gather communications focal persons on AMR from selected FAO field offices in Asia, specifically offices with Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) teams and AMR focal persons on 30-31 March 2022 (See Concept Note), to review lessons learned, draft the regional strategy for FAO Action Plan Objective 1 (AMR awareness and engagement), and plan for WAAW 2022.