The Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship (CwPAMS) 2 Programme

CwPAMS is funded by the UK Department of Health and Social Care’s Fleming Fund. The Fleming Fund is a UK aid programme supporting up to 25 countries across Africa and Asia to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a leading public health threat across the world. The Fleming Fund invests in strengthening surveillance systems through a portfolio of country grants, regional grants and fellowships managed by Mott MacDonald, and global projects managed by partners. 

THET and CPA welcome grant applications from new and existing health partnerships between the UK and operating in the following eight priority countries: Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. 

Projects will focus on some or all of the following: 

• Improving antimicrobial stewardship (AMS), including surveillance; 
• Building antimicrobial pharmacy expertise and capacity; 
• Enhancing infection prevention and control (IPC); 
• Improving the use of clinical microbiology and antimicrobial prescribing data to inform clinical decisions; 
• Enhancing the detection and reporting of substandard and falsified antimicrobial medicines; 
• Supporting community pharmacy. 

CwPAMS aims to leverage the expertise of UK health institutions and technical experts to strengthen the capacity of the health workforce and institutions in Commonwealth countries to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR) challenges, as well as creating opportunities for bidirectional learning.  

Running since 2018, previous CwPAMS grants have focused on improving AMS, developing pharmacy expertise and capacity, and supporting IPC initiatives. The new phase of the programme includes additional focus areas and builds on the successes of the partnerships to date, encouraging sustainability through the development of in-country centres of excellence and sharing of best practices. 

For a brief overview of the new grants programme, please read the CwPAMS 2 Executive Summary.

Click through to read the following documents:

CATEGORY A

• Call for Applications
• Q&A
• Application Form
• Budget Form
• CwPAMS AMS Assessment Tool and AMS Action Plan
• Scoping studies

CATEGORY B

• Call for Applications
• Q&A
• Application Form
• Budget Form
• CwPAMS AMS Assessment Tool and AMS Action Plan
• Scoping studies

CATEGORY C

• Call for Applications
• Q&A
• Application Form
• CwPAMS AMS Assessment Tool
• Scoping studies

Application documents should be submitted to grants@thet.org

If you have questions or difficulty accessing any of the documents listed please contact us at grants@thet.org   

Pre-application Webinars 

THET and CPA held pre-application webinars to provide an opportunity for applicants to learn and ask questions about the grant call and application process. Recordings for the webinars can be found here: 

Category A Webinar: Recording here. 

Category B Webinar: Recording here. 

Category C Webinar: Recording here. 

We strongly advise potential applicants access the recording online if you were unable to attend the sessions.

New partnerships 

Due to large numbers of LMIC institutions interested in forming new Health Partnerships, we are now only accepting Expressions of Interest (EOIs) from UK institutions.  

UK institutions without a partner who are interested in forming a new Health Partnership, with the aim of submitting an application, should complete this Expression of Interest survey as soon as possible (it will stay open until 6th November 2022). 

THET and CPA will circulate this information via email to all UK and African institutions that are looking for a UK partner on a weekly basis, and it will then be the individual institutions’ responsibility to follow up and make contact with any prospective partners. Institutions are of course welcome to develop their own partnerships independently as well.