RFPs: Integrate AMR Mitigation with Climate-smart Livestock and Aquaculture Systems in Asia and the Pacific

The research should focus on testing and evaluating evidence-based approaches that can be implemented in resource-constrained settings where these challenges are most acute.

Scope

• The scope of this RFP includes:
  • Geographic Focus: Research studies will be conducted in Asia and the Pacific region, with preference for projects in high-risk areas where climate change impacts and antimicrobial use in food production systems overlap. The projects can be set at a country, multi-country or regional level.
  • Production Systems: They will support up to 4 research studies on aquaculture and/or livestock systems.

Areas of Research 

• Research Focus Areas (a minimum of 2 should be included):
  • Intervention studies:
    • Focus on livestock and/or aquaculture production that simultaneously quantify through measurements the reduction of antimicrobial use and greenhouse gas emissions.
    • Focus on livestock and/or aquaculture production that simultaneously reduce antimicrobial use and improve climate change resilience:
      • Adaptation strategies in livestock and/or aquaculture farming that address changing disease patterns due to climate change
      • Systemic approaches for integrating AMR and climate-smart initiatives at farm, local, and/or national levels
      • Business and/or financing models for dual-purpose (AMR and climate change) interventions
      • Enabling policy environment for integrating AMR and climate-smart initiatives at farm, local, and/or national levels.
• Examples of potential research areas to include but not limited to:
  • Animal feed and/or feeding systems as AMR and climate smart solutions
  • Mapping common drivers of climate change and AMR emergence
  • Breeding solutions that tackle both climate change and AMR
  • Quantification of dual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and/or climate change
  • resilience and AMU and/or AMR.

Funding Information

• The maximum budget allocated to the successful proposal will be 100,000 USD for a project duration of 9 months.

Expected Outcomes

• The expected deliverables from projects supported under this RFP must include two or more of the following:
  • Comprehensive description of the baseline situation: A comprehensive baseline assessment of current practices in the selected production systems, including antimicrobial use patterns, AMR status (if possible), climate-related challenges, and existing intervention approaches.
  • Intervention Implementation: Documentation, quantification and measurements of the process, and outcomes of implementing and evaluating the climate-smart AMR interventions, including enablers and barriers to implementation.
  • Evidence Generation: Quantitative and qualitative evidence on the effectiveness, feasibility, and sustainability of interventions that address both AMR and climate change in the selected production systems.
  • Economic Analysis: Economic evaluation and analysis of the implemented interventions, including potential economic benefits and barriers to uptake and scaleup.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must demonstrate the following criteria to be considered for funding:
  • Demonstrated experience in AMR, climate change, and livestock/aquaculture production systems.
  • Profit-making organisations, which include private companies and associations, are not eligible as the lead organisation or as a grantee party in a consortium for this project, except as an SME under section 6.4. However, they can be collaborators bringing their own funding or inkind contributions.
  • International organisations established by treaty or other instrument governed by international law with their own legal status (including United Nations Organizations or any international academic/non-profit/for-profit institution) are not eligible as the lead organisation or as a grantee party in a consortium for this project, except as an SME under section 6.4. However, they can be collaborators bringing their own funding or in-kind contributions.
  • Funding is limited to project components conducted in LMICs in the Asia and Pacific region and the LMIC partner is responsible for implementing the grant in this region.
• The lead institution must:
  • Be a registered legal entity in a LMIC in the Asia and Pacific region, and be willing and able to enter into a contractual agreement, as the commissioned organisation, with ICARS.

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