While it features real solutions, final content will undergo review by a technical working group and incorporate feedback from a validation workshop planned for December 2020. Please see these as examples only, and not a definitive list.
Solution /Innovation:

Assessment tool for Laboratories and Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Systems (FAO-ATLASS)

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Organization:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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Technical contact:
Dr. Béatrice Mouillé
Global Laboratory Unit Deputy Coordinator, FAO ATLASS coordinator
FAO
Beatrice.Mouille@fao.org
More info, related website links:

http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/news_071016b.html

http://www.fao.org/asiapacific/news/detail-events/en/c/1129839/
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Frameworks and tools, Healthy diets & Nutrition, One Health, Other breed, Policy, and Sustainable production
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Challenge

The FAO Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), published in 2016, identifies the need to develop capacity for AMR surveillance and monitoring in food and agriculture sectors.
AMR surveillance is the cornerstone for assessing and monitoring the emergence and the spread of AMR and for providing evidence for action. A sound surveillance system implemented for continuous monitoring of AMR helps to reduce and control AMR and AMU by providing information for targeted regulation, advocacy, awareness raising, and tailored interventions to address the development and transmission of resistance. To achieve these goals, an AMR surveillance system must generate up-to-date, comparable, representative, high quality data on pathogens or indicators of concern from the target populations.

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Solution

FAO has developed the method and tool “Assessment Tool for Laboratories and AMR Surveillance Systems’’ (FAO-ATLASS) to assist countries in systematically assessing their AMR surveillance system in food and agriculture sectors. FAO-ATLASS allows national authorities to identify a strategic stepwise approach to improving their AMR surveillance systems via the FAO-ATLASS PIP stage system, and provides an evidence base for actions and advocacy. Furthermore, the implementation of FAO-ATLASS at regional and global levels can contribute to harmonize and better coordinate strategies aimed at implementing an integrated AMR surveillance system under the One Health approach.
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Impact

Since 2016, 28 countries worldwide such as Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe hosted FAO-ATLASS assessment missions, allowing the provision of practical recommendations for laboratory capacity building and national AMR surveillance strengthening as well as regional discussions on the common strengths and gaps. FAO is also building a worldwide community of assessors to serve as a technical resource for FAO ATLASS assessments toward harmonized regional and global surveillance efforts. This community of assessors will allow for the FAO ATLASS process to be implemented in a harmonized way in other countries worldwide.

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Frameworks and tools, Healthy diets & Nutrition, One Health, Other breed, Policy, and Sustainable production

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