Solutions for integrating antimicrobial resistance into global challenges

 

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains a global threat to the health security of both animals and humans. In addition, gender inequality and climate change have documented impacts that will contribute to an increased AMR burden, and there is a global gap in developing solution-oriented research on how to tackle these intersecting challenges.

This project aims to integrate the gender equity and climate change agendas into AMR research projects. It will support researchers to implement the strategies outlined in a resource document produced in an earlier project and provide additional technical expertise. These learnings will be compiled and communicated. The project will also scope low- and middle-income countries’ knowledge and implementation gaps to address AMR and climate change in aquaculture production systems. It will then develop a guiding resource on how AMR intervention and implementation research can include climate change mitigation and/or adaptation in low- and middle-income countries’ livestock and aquaculture settings.

These two streams of research will produce a range of knowledge products separately and will also bring together the intersecting fields in a final knowledge and learning exchange event to explore more broadly how these challenges condition sustainable development in low- and middle-income country contexts. Ensuring that an intersectional gender lens is integrated in the areas of AMR and climate change will enhance the accuracy and validity of the findings. This will also help reduce the gaps encountered to building mitigation strategies for future research and policies.

This project is part of the InnoVet-AMR 2.0 program, a four-year partnership between IDRC and the United Kingdom’s Department of Health and Social Care. It aims to reduce the emerging risk that AMR in animals poses to global health and food security.