The Qualifying the Workforce for AMR Surveillance in Africa and Asia (QWArS) project aims to address this challenge by buildi ng AMR surveillance capacity among laboratory and epidemiology professionals from the human, animal, food, and environmental health sectors. As part of this process,

QWArS aims to establish competency standards fit for the context of African and Asian settings, providing the knowledge and skill baseline for AMR surveillance training programs to work with. QWArS is being implemented in 14 African and 3 Asian countries, and is led by the African Society for Laboratory Medicine and its partners: the Africa Center for Disease Control; the American Society for Microbiology; the Institut Pasteur International Network; the Institut de Recherche en Santé, de Surveillance Epidémiologique et de Formation; Foundation Mérieux; International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh; and the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark.