In order to implement national action plans (NAPs) on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), those making funding decisions need to understand how much activities will cost, what is already being funded, and how to leverage additional funding. A clear approach to planning, costing and budgeting NAPs on AMR is a critical first step in ensuring that these efforts are practical. A costed NAP provides the foundation to identify funding gaps and mobilize additional resources to fill those gaps to allow for successful implementation of the activities. To support countries in costing and budgeting their NAP AMR activities, WHO has developed a costing and budgeting tool and accompanying user guide.

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Supporting countries with national action plan implementation

This pragmatic and modular tool is user friendly, flexible, easy to navigate, and adaptable to the needs of countries. It can be used to calculate and visualize detailed costs for prioritized activities included in the NAPs on AMR. Taking into account the different country contexts, the tool can be filled using a modular approach which allows different sectors, ministries or event departments to fill in the tool independently and these plans can then be consolidated into one national costed plan.

To master the use of the tool and learn how to use all the features, users are encouraged to undertake a dedicated training. To learn more about the training please write an email to amrnap-helpdesk@who.int   

A  WHO Online course "Costing and budgeting tool for national action plans on antimicrobial resistance" is also available.

Tool Elements

•  NAP entry: The user specifies the NAP priorities, objectives and activities that were selected for costing. 
•  Basic inputs: The user enters key parameters relevant to their country, including ministry/implementer names, funder names, implementation years and unit costs for various items. 
•  Costing matrix: These tabs are automatically generated after NAP entry is completed and are used to insert sub-activities and to enter unit costs and units according to the implementation developed by the country prior to costing.
• Funding (optional): The user enters existing funds from various sources/donors. This step is optional but recommended and can be completed at any time after NAP entry is complete. 
•  Dashboards: The user can specify various cross-tabulations and levels of analysis to produce dashboards and visualize all data. The Dashboard tab summarizes cost data entered by the user. The Funding Dashboard tab combines cost and funding data (if funding data in Step 4 above have been entered) by the user. 

Below are two sets of FAQs. The General FAQs address questions about the overall purpose, requirements and applications of the tool, while the Technical FAQs include specific questions and challenges that may arise when a user is working through the tool.