One Health is an integrated approach to preventing and responding to health threats at the human-animal-environment interface. It recognizes that the health of humans, animals, plants, and the environment are interconnected, and that a One Health approach is essential to protect the health of all.
One Health is a holistic approach to health that requires everyone to work together, including governments, international organizations, civil society, and the private sector.
FAO works continually to support Members to promote health for people, animals, plants and the environment in a balanced and sustainable way. This includes measures focusing on infectious animal and zoonotic diseases, such as disease prevention, detection and control, but also the mitigation and management of antimicrobial resistance and efforts to achieve equity, stewardship, and sustainable development.⦿ FAO’s One Health programme portfolio has grown to over USD 650 million
⦿ 228 active projects
⦿ 79 countries and regions
⦿ 48 resource partners
A portion of FAO's One Health funding is provided through the One Health in Agrifood System Transformation Fund - a pooled and multipartner mechanism supporting FAO's One Health Priority Programme Area. The fund offers an integrated and comprehensive One Health support package to countries to progress national pathways for transforming agrifood systems through One Health assessments and planning, technical support, policy advice and leveraging investment.
To ensure a multisectoral approach to One Health, FAO partners with UNEP, WHO and WOAH (the Quadripartite) through the Quadripartite One Health Joint Plan of Action and works on joint initiatives and pooled funding mechanisms.
FAO, together with the Quadripartite, has been assisting pilot countries, Kenya and Senegal, with One Health prioritization and investment planning.
National partnerships for One Health investments ideally involve co-investment from the government and also public-private partnerships, farmer cooperative groups and academia.
Through FAO's and USAID’s support, Zambia is building a more resilient health system for controlling and preventing animal diseases, benefiting livelihoods...
FAO will co-lead the implementation of 21 new projects as part of the second round of funding from The Pandemic Fund. Aimed at enhancing global...
The funding is designed to bolster the global response to mpox outbreaks and other infectious diseases.
FAO have teamed up with Huazhong Agricultural University to launch the RENOFARM Youth Scientific Poster Challenge during the Second Animal Disease...
Consultation reflecting on the experience of the Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan and the WHO subregional central office in Asian countries as part...
The United Kingdom, through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), has committed to a significant investment in the One Health...