Quadripartite One Health Legislative Assessment Tool for Antimicrobial Resistance (próximamente en español)

This Quadripartite One Health Legislative Assessment Tool for Antimicrobial Resistance was developed by the Quadripartite organizations – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) under the coordination of the Quadripartite Joint Secretariat (QJS) on AMR.

This One Health Legislative Assessment Tool for AMR provides guidance on how to assess national legislation relevant to addressing AMR. The Tool assists in identifying regulatory gaps in the legislative framework and enables prioritization of potential solutions.

Each chapter represents a sector which can potentially contribute to the development and spread of AMR and presents an overview of the relevant AMR issues, as well as outlining where they might be addressed in the legislative framework. Explanations are provided on which key elements pertain to the regulatory area or mechanism under review (guided by international standards). Thus, a simple distillation of the key principles and mechanisms that should feature in legislation is presented. This is followed by a set of simple questions to facilitate a finding of whether or not the national legislation contains the aforementioned features/mechanisms. It should be noted that the Tool is comprehensive in terms of AMR but is not exhaustive of each regulatory area under review per se.