CwPAMS Programmes
Second round of CwPAMS grants extended to eight African countries in 2021
The first round of CwPAMS funding was awarded to 12 selected health partnerships’ during 2019 – 2020 between multidisciplinary NHS teams in the UK and their counterparts in Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia to support antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) initiatives to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Awarded grants during 2019-2020
Ghana
• Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust – The Assemblies of God Hospital, Saboba
• UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH) – Ghana Public Health Association (GPHA)
• North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, London (NMUH) – Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH)
• University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Ho
• Healthcare Improvement Scotland – Ghana Police Hospital and Keta Municipal Hospital
Tanzania
• Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust – Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC)
Uganda
• Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Makerere University and Mulago National Referral and Teaching Hospital
• University of Salford – Pharmaceutical Society of Uganda
• The University of Manchester – Gulu Regional Referral Hospital
• Nottingham Trent University – Makerere University School of Public Health
• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) – Makerere University College of Health Sciences and Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC)
Zambia
• University of Sussex; Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) – University Teaching Hospital (UTH), Lusaka

The CwPAMS partnerships, have demonstrated a recognition of the importance of Antimicrobial Stewardship and an extensive commitment from healthcare workers to collaboratively tackle antimicrobial resistance and develop effective Antimicrobial Stewardship interventions.
Diane Ashiru-Oredope, CPA Global AMR Lead
CwPAMS Programme Extension
In 2021, after completing the first round of programmes, a second round of grants were made available to new and existing programmes in eight African countries including Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Malawi and Kenya under the Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship Scheme (CwPAMS) with support from UK Department of Health and Social Care’s Fleming Fund.
A total of £10,000 – £20,000 each was available to existing and new partnerships for a period of 6-7 months commencing from mid-October 2021 and ending mid-May 2022.
With support from the Fleming Fund, National Action Plans (NAPs) on AMR, including AMS activities, have been developed in all countries. Complete World Health Organization (WHO) AMR self-assessment datasets are also available for all eight countries. This includes key findings on the progress with their NAPs, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and AMS. Initiatives focused on surveillance of resistant organisms already exist, but there is a vacuum when it comes to AMS. Partnerships should therefore place a central focus on AMS whilst incorporating and expanding the findings from other IPC initiatives.
Grants were available for projects focused on:
1. Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS), including surveillance – mandatory;
2. Utilising/developing pharmacy expertise and capacity – mandatory;
3. Infection Prevention Control (IPC);
4. Strengthening capacity of using clinical microbiology data
Category A: Start-up CwPAMS Projects
Under this stream, grants of £10,000 – £20,000 for health partnerships new to CwPAMS were awarded. Any health partnership, whether newly-formed or long-established, is eligible as long as the two leads have not previously been awarded a CwPAMS grant togethe
Category B: Existing CwPAMS projects
Under this stream, grants of £10,000 – £20,000 were awarded to existing CwPAMS partnerships to focus on initial steps that will pave the way for longer-term projects and build on previous work carried out.
Awarded grants during 2021 – 2022
The following Africa-UK CwPAMS programmes were awarded:
Uganda
KamCamWIMN – Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention Control
- Lead UK Partner: Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH)
- Lead LMIC Partner: Makerere University Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Establish a Sustainable Centre of Excellence for Integrated AMS and IPC at Makerere University Hospital
- Lead UK Partner: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Lead LMIC Partner: Makerere University Health Services
Capacity Sharing for Antimicrobial Stewardship through the Medicines and Therapeutic Committee at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital
- Lead UK Partner: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Lead LMIC Partner: Infectious Disease Research Collaboration
Scaling-up interventions for strengthening antimicrobial stewardship in Wakiso district
- Lead UK Partner: Nottingham Trent University
- Lead LMIC Partner: Makerere University School of Public Health
Ghana
- Lead UK Partner: University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust
- Lead LMIC Partner: University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho
- Lead UK Partner: UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH)
- Lead LMIC Partner: Ghana Public Health Association
Development and Institution of Antimicrobial Stewardship in the University Hospital, Knust
- Lead UK Partner: Ulster University, Coleraine Campus, Northern Ireland
- Lead LMIC Partner: University Hospital, Knust
Zambia
- Lead UK Partner: University of Sussex; Brighton and Sussex Medical School
- Lead LMIC Partner: Hospital Pharmacy Association Zambia
Developing Reliable Systems and Practices for Antimicrobial Stewardship in a Hospital Setting in Eastern Province, Zambia: Modelled on Scottish-Ghana AMS programme
- Lead UK Partner: NHS Highland
- Lead LMIC Partner: Chipata Central Hospital
Sierra Leone
Institutionalising AMS at Connaught Hospital
- Lead UK Partner: King’s Global Health Partnerships, King’s College London
- Lead LMIC Partner: Connaught Hospital, University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospital Complex
Kenya
- Lead UK Partner: Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Lead LMIC Partner: Kakamega County Referral Hospital
Tanzania
Building the KCMC-NHCFT antimicrobial stewardship partnership
- Lead UK Partner: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHCFT)
- Lead LMIC Partner: Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre
Malawi
Training pharmacists as antimicrobial stewardship leads in Malawi
- Lead UK Partner: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
- Lead LMIC Partner: Pharmaceutical Society of Malawi
Nigeria
Building capacity of healthcare workers for AMS at a university teaching hospital in Lagos
- Lead UK Partner: UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH)
- Lead LMIC Partner: College of Medicine of the University of Lagos (CMUL)
Videos: Application Process
Learn more about the application process for CwPAMS in the video below
Playlist
CwPAMS 1.5 Sharing and Learning Slides
CwPAMS has celebrated a vast number of achievements. Learn more about its most recent successes which were demonstrated through a Sharing and Learning event held in 2022 here.
CwPAMS 1.5 Sharing and Learning Webinar
Watch the Sharing and Learning webinar which showcased the CwPAMS 1.5 achievements
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