Approaches and tools to help finance and implement national action plans on AMR - Council Insight no. 2

Overview

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens to become one of the biggest health challenges facing humanity, with devastating consequences, if humanity fails to take immediate action. It is described as a silent pandemic that not only affects human livelihoods but also jeopardizes plants, the lives of animals and the environment around them.

This insight focuses on ways in which financial and economic levers and financing and budgeting tools can help guarantee the funding and implementation of national action plans (NAPs) on AMR. Together, the levers and tools, which include outcome-based budgeting, delegated and earmarked financing and joint budgeting, constitute promising approaches to tackling AMR and its far-reaching consequences from a whole-of-society perspective.