The third round of the Tripartite Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) country self-assessment survey (TrACSS) has been sent to the WHO regional offices to be disseminated to the AMR focal points within the Ministries of Health in the countries. In parallel, FAO and OIE will share a PDF version of the questionnaire to their focal points in the country. The questionnaire is designed to be completed through self-assessment at country level and each country is asked to submit one official response, validated by all involved sectors, which summarises national progress. Two rounds (2016/17 and 2017/18) of monitoring country progress on AMR in line with the AMR Global Action Plan have taken place, with responses reported in 2017 and 2018. Results are available at this link.

This third round of the monitoring questionnaire has been modified from the first and second round to incorporate lessons learned. Additional questions have been added to collect information related to the core global indicators which are a part of theTripartite Global Action Plan Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework, which will be published shortly.

It is important that countries involve a multi-sectoral group in assessing national progress and provide consolidated responses agreed by all. Many countries have found that the process of completing the questionnaire is a useful review of progress for the national action plan (NAP) implementation team.

The information from this questionnaire will be used for the report to the seventy-second World Health Assembly in May 2019 and for an analysis included in the Global Report on AMR by the UN Secretary-General at the seventy-fourth session of the UN General Assembly in 2019. The deadline for country submissions is 15 February 2019. For further questions, please contact the WHO AMR Secretariat.