Regional AMR Activities - WOAH

Supporting Members: AMR and AMU Awareness

Our key activities include AMU monitoring workshops to understand the AMU supply chain; awareness seminars for the livestock and aquaculture industries; awareness seminars for the veterinary educations establishments (VEE); laboratory trainings on AMR surveillance; and focal point trainings for veterinary products.

Veterinary services should mainstream antimicrobial stewardship as one of its core activities to combat AMR, and WOAH can provide the necessary support.

Regional activities

Lab Training on AMR Surveillance in Food Animals 2025 with APQA (16 – 24 Sep 2025, Gimcheon, Republic of Korea)
Lab Training on AMR Surveillance in Food Animals 2025 with NVAL and RGU (7 – 10 Jul 2025, Ebetsu, Japan)
First consultation: Developing an AMR communication strategy for Mongolia (30 Apr 2025, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
Tokyo AMR One Health Conference, WOAH side event: Research to reduce the use of antimicrobials in animals (13, 19-20 Feb 2025, Tokyo, Japan)
WOAH Regional Workshop & FAMIC Virtual Training on Analysis of Antimicrobials in Feed (16 Jan 2025)
ANIMUSE webinar for Asia and the Pacific (6 Nov 2024, virtual)
Mongolia: Monitoring AMU and AMR communication strategy development (31 Oct-1 Nov 2024)
Asia Pacific AMU-AMR Workshop for Aquaculture (30 Oct-1 Nov 2024)
Data collection system on veterinary medicine at farm-level: Aiming to reduce antimicrobial use (11 Oct 2024, hybrid event)
AMR Surveillance in Terrestrial and Aquatic Food Animals (3-12 Sep 2024, APQA, R.O. Korea)
Bangladesh: Monitoring of antimicrobial intended for animals (25 Jun 2024)
Bangladesh’s Multisectoral AMR Communication Strategy (24 Jun 2024)

Regional activities (2023 and previous)

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Regional ANIMUSE Training for WOAH Focal Points for Veterinary Products (22-24 Feb 2023, Bangkok, Thailand)
Laboratory Training on AMR Surveillance in Terrestrial/Aquatic Food Animals (17-26 Oct 2023, APQA, R.O. Korea & 27-30 Oct 2023, NVAL, Japan)
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week Tripartite + UNEP Event: AMR Storytellers from the Asia-Pacific (24 Nov 2021, virtual)
OIE Virtual Consultation Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance and Antimicrobial Use in Aquaculture (22 Jun 2021, virtual)
Joint FAO/OIE Activity: Second Consultation Meeting on Regional Monitoring and Surveillance Guideline Volume 5: “Monitoring antimicrobial use at the farm level” (27-29 Apr 2021, virtual)
Webinar on Responsible and prudent antimicrobial use (AMU) in companion animals (18 Nov 2020, virtual)
Webinar on Responsible and prudent antimicrobial use (AMU) in aquatic animals (16 Nov 2020, virtual)
Communication skills for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Asia and the Pacific (16 Sep 2020, virtual)
Review implementation of action plans on combatting antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in animal sectors in East Asia (8 Jul 2020, virtual)
Webinar on the database on antimicrobial agents intended for use in animals (31 Mar – 2 Apr 2020, virtual)
Regional Seminar for OIE National Focal Points for Veterinary Products (6th Cycle)(14-16 Jan 2020, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
8th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Multi-Sectoral Collaboration (Regional Tripartite) (9-11 Apr 2019, Bangkok, Thailand)
OIE Sub-Regional Conference on AMR related Research and Information (7 Mar 2019, Bangkok, Thailand)
Regional Meeting on AMR Control in Animals during the OIE 2nd Global Conference on AMR (31 Oct 2018, Marrakesh, Morocco)
Regional Workshop for OIE National Focal Points for Veterinary Products (20-22 Mar 2018, Bangkok, Thailand)

In-country/national AMR/AMU activities organised by WOAH RR and SRR since 2018

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1. In-country workshops on monitoring the quantities and usage patterns of antimicrobial agents used in animals

[2025] – Mongolia
[2024] – Bangladesh, Mongolia
[2023] – Cambodia
[2021] – India
[2020] – Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan
[2019] – Bangladesh, Bhutan, Mongolia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Viet Nam
[2018] – Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Philippines

2. Seminars on containment of AMR for the Veterinary Education Establishments and Veterinary Statutory Bodies

[2020] – Indonesia, Malaysia
[2019] – Bangladesh, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka
[2018] – Cambodia, Lao PDR, Viet Nam

3. Seminars on containment of AMR in the livestock and aquaculture industries

[2019] – Bhutan, Philippines
[2018] – Cambodia, Myanmar, Lao PDR, Viet Nam

4. Reviewing implementation of National Action Plans on AMR in the livestock and aquaculture sector

[2019] – Myanmar, Viet Nam
[2018] – Myanmar