IVI and Timor-Leste

 

Ongoing Collaboration

 

Regional Antimicrobial Resistance Data Analysis for Advocacy, Response and policy (RADAAR)

This initiative improves regional data sharing and analysis for use in AMR planning, policy, and advocacy. The project laid the groundwork to strengthen the capacities of low- and middle-income countries to translate AMR knowledge—from data and evidence to effective policies. In 2024, RADAAR initiated the Evidence-Informed Policy Network with the World Health Organization in Bhutan, hosted a series of policy webinars, initiated online training modules, and conducted a systematic literature review on the economic evaluations of AMR.

 

Countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Cameroon, Eswatini, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Uganda, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe 

 

Technical Assistance for Clinical Engagement – Asia (TACE Asia)

The TACE Asia project focuses on providing technical support to improve the use of laboratory services and generation of good quality and representative AMR and antimicrobial use data in the human health sector. This will be done through support for clinical engagement and training on the use of simplified protocols to generate AMR burden data in select Fleming Fund priority countries. Launched in 2024, the program is contributing to the use of data on clinical practice and decision-making, improving rational use of antimicrobials, promoting antimicrobial stewardship, and shaping evidence-based practice.

 

Countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam

 

Technical Assistance for Data and Evidence Use (TADEU)

The TADEU project was launched to provide technical assistance to support data production and improve the use of AMR data and evidence, with a particular focus on the economic evaluations of AMR.

 

In 2024, the project:

  1. Developed a micro-costing tool to help governments plan future AMR surveillance by informing financial implications, sustainability, and outcomes of AMR surveillance.
  2. Developed protocols and tools to measure the impact of antimicrobial stewardship programs as well as the economic burden of AMR.
  3. Completed literature reviews on existing methodologies and frameworks for econometric modeling and quantifications for AMR economic burden and impact measurements of stewardship programs.
  4. Developed a technical guide for the Political Economy Analysis framework.

 

Countries: Bangladesh, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam 

 

Previous Collaboration

 

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Surveillance & Capacity Building

With support for UKAID’s Fleming Fund, IVI’s CAPTURA 1.0 program worked with health authorities in 12 countries across central and southeast Asia (including Timor-Leste) to collect, review, and digitize AMR surveillance data. The project also helped identify gaps in data and areas for quality improvement that can be addressed in future initiatives to strengthen surveillance capacity. The information resources generated by the project will improve awareness, advocacy, policy, and interventions needed to combat AMR and antimicrobial misuse.