The South Centre Events

SC Workshop — M&E Frameworks in AMR NAPS, 28 March 2025

South Centre Capacity Building Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks in National Action Plans on Antimicrobial Resistance 

Date: 28 March 2025

Time: 4pm Geneva Time / 7am ET / 11am GMT

This workshop will explore best practices for implementing National Action Plans on Antimicrobial Resistance and their corresponding Monitoring and Evaluation frameworks. Country-specific updates on NAP AMR progress will be shared, followed by a panel discussion with esteemed experts who will discuss strategies for guiding M&E targets and promoting accountability in NAP implementation.

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SC Webinar – AMR NAPs, 20 March 2025

Webinar: Advancing National Action Plans on AMR amidst Health Financing Challenges

20 March 2025; 12pm Geneva time/7am ET/ 11am GMT/ 8am Brazil time/1pm South Africa time/11am Ghana time

National Action Plans (NAPS) on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) are developed by countries based on their own strategic priorities. Countries are at various stages of implementation of plans. However, advancing NAPs on AMR faces many challenges, particularly due to the challenges of global health funding and domestic health financing. This webinar will feature experts that will discuss selected country experiences on NAP AMR implementation and reflect on how to address the health financing challenges that hinder NAP implementation and AMR mitigation efforts. What are the financing and resource allocation approaches that can support NAP implementation in the current context?

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HRC58 Side Event, 13 March 2025

The Role of Peasant Women

The Function of the UNDROP in the Realization of the Right to Food

Side-Event to the 58th Session of the Human Rights Council

Co-organized by the South Centre

Date & Time: 13 March, 13-14h

Venue: Room XXII, Palais des Nations/United Nations Office in Geneva

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International Conference, 3-6 February 2025

Copyright & the Public Interest: Africa and the Global South

International Conference co-organized by South Centre

Dates: 3rd February 2025, 5th February 2025, 6th February 2025

Locations: Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa

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Webinar: Enhancing Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance in Developing Countries, 18 November 2024

Webinar: Enhancing Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance in Developing Countries

18 November 2024

Virtual event

Time: 3-4:00 PM CEST / 9-10:00 AM EDT / 7:30 – 8:30 PM IST

The South Centre will organize a webinar during the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2024 to highlight essential strategies and success stories in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance and stewardship across developing countries, focusing on bridging gaps in data collection and accuracy. Challenges such as limited funding, technical infrastructure, and trained personnel hinder effective AMR surveillance.

The webinar will explore cost-effective digital solutions, regional collaboration, and resource-efficient strategies to help build resilient AMR surveillance systems, enhancing sustainable antimicrobial stewardship (AMS), combating AMR, saving patient lives, and improving global public health outcomes.

The webinar will have two sessions, designed to provide practical insights and evidence-based recommendations to improve AMR surveillance, policy, and clinical practices, particularly in resource-limited settings.

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Ensuring A Balanced Approach in UNCITRAL Working Group III, 24 September 2024

Ensuring A Balanced Approach in UNCITRAL Working Group III

co-organized by Gobierno de Colombia, Diplomatische Akademie Wien, Universidad Externado de Colombia, and the South Centre

Views from the Global South on the Multilateral Investment Court and Procedural and Cross-cutting Issues in Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Reform.

24 September 2024

Diplomastiche Akademie Wien,
Festsaal, Favoritenstrasse 15a,
1040 Vienna, Austria

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