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Mitigating anti-microbial resistance in the environment: a One Health governance analysis in Kenya

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a critical threat to global health, with environmental transmission pathways – pharmaceutical waste, wastewater effluents, agricultural runoff – increasingly recognised as significant yet inadequately governed. Despite international calls for One Health approaches integrating human, animal and environmental sectors, coordination across these domains remains weak, particularly for environmental dimensions. This paper examines why environmental integration lags in Kenya’s AMR governance, despite sophisticated formal architecture that includes national and county coordination platforms (NASIC, CASICs), tech-
nical working groups and the One Health AMR Surveillance System (OHAMRS). We investigate two research questions: (i) What are the enablers and barriers to effective governance of interlinkages among human health, animal health and environmental sectors in mitigating AMR? (ii) What are the options for effectively integrating the environmental dimension into AMR governance?
Drawing on polycentric governance theory, the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework and the concept of Networks of Adjacent Action Situations (NAAS), we analyse how authority, information and resources shape interactions among overlapping decision centres across constitutional, collective-choice and operational levels. Through 12 semi-structured interviews with government officials, fisheries officers and environmental regulators, supplemented by policy document analysis, we map six action situations spanning planning, resource allocation, surveillance, stewardship, wastewater treatment and regulation. Findings reveal that constitutional-choice rules create formal overlaps intended to foster coordination, yet systematic asymmetries in authority, information and resources perpetuate the marginalisation of environmental issues. Boundary and position rules concentrate agenda setting in health sectors; information rules exclude AMR parameters from environmental permits and inspections; payoff rules reward clinical outputs while environmental investments compete with higher priorities; and scope rules omit environmental accountability targets. These rule configurations attenuate feedback loops between environmental action situations and upstream planning, maintaining system stability but at sub-optimal performance for One Health objectives. We identify rule-focused interventions – mandating environmental representation with voting authority, embedding AMR parameters in regulatory instruments, institutionalising joint inspection protocols, ring-fencing environmental budgets, and establishing explicit environmental targets – that would realign coordination toward genuine environmental integration. 

Morris Buliva is an independent researcher based in Nairobi, and Governance and Partnerships Consultant for the Fleming Fund Country Grant in Kenya.

Mitigating anti-microbial resistance in the environment: a One Health governance analysis in Kenya

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a critical threat to global health, with environmental transmission pathways – pharmaceutical waste, wastewater effluents, agricultural runoff – increasingly recognised as significant yet inadequately governed. Despite international calls for One Health approaches integrating human, animal and environmental sectors, coordination across these domains remains weak, particularly for environmental dimensions. This paper examines why environmental integration lags in Kenya’s AMR governance, despite sophisticated formal architecture that includes national and county coordination platforms (NASIC, CASICs), tech-
nical working groups and the One Health AMR Surveillance System (OHAMRS). We investigate two research questions: (i) What are the enablers and barriers to effective governance of interlinkages among human health, animal health and environmental sectors in mitigating AMR? (ii) What are the options for effectively integrating the environmental dimension into AMR governance?
Drawing on polycentric governance theory, the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework and the concept of Networks of Adjacent Action Situations (NAAS), we analyse how authority, information and resources shape interactions among overlapping decision centres across constitutional, collective-choice and operational levels. Through 12 semi-structured interviews with government officials, fisheries officers and environmental regulators, supplemented by policy document analysis, we map six action situations spanning planning, resource allocation, surveillance, stewardship, wastewater treatment and regulation. Findings reveal that constitutional-choice rules create formal overlaps intended to foster coordination, yet systematic asymmetries in authority, information and resources perpetuate the marginalisation of environmental issues. Boundary and position rules concentrate agenda setting in health sectors; information rules exclude AMR parameters from environmental permits and inspections; payoff rules reward clinical outputs while environmental investments compete with higher priorities; and scope rules omit environmental accountability targets. These rule configurations attenuate feedback loops between environmental action situations and upstream planning, maintaining system stability but at sub-optimal performance for One Health objectives. We identify rule-focused interventions – mandating environmental representation with voting authority, embedding AMR parameters in regulatory instruments, institutionalising joint inspection protocols, ring-fencing environmental budgets, and establishing explicit environmental targets – that would realign coordination toward genuine environmental integration. 

Morris Buliva is an independent researcher based in Nairobi, and Governance and Partnerships Consultant for the Fleming Fund Country Grant in Kenya.

Surveillance de masse: Le Service de renseignement viole la Constitution

24heures.ch - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 14:34
Le Tribunal administratif fédéral estime dans un arrêt que la surveillance transfrontalière des communications n’est pas conforme à la loi fondamentale.
Categories: Balkan News, Swiss News

Commission teases next food chain proposals

Euractiv.com - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 14:34
The report hints at measures to prevent below-cost selling
Categories: Afrique, European Union

BUDGET BRIEF: The first negotiating box

Euractiv.com - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 14:17
Own resources, European Competitiveness Fund, EU administration, Erasmus
Categories: Afrique, European Union

A conversation on Humane World for Animals’ vision of ending animal suffering with Ruud Tombrock

Euractiv.com - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 14:00
In this interview, Ruud Tombrock, Executive Director of Humane World for Animals Europe, outlines the organisation’s mission to build a world where animals are free from suffering. He introduces HWA’s work by highlighting the scale of intensive farming in Europe and the growing impact of global crises on animal welfare, offering a clear picture of […]
Categories: Afrique, European Union

Spanish PM Sánchez seeks to repair ties with former separatist ally

Euractiv.com - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 13:50
Junts’ decision to “break relations” in October triggered a parliamentary blockade
Categories: Afrique, European Union

EU countries clinch fragile deal on drug shortages plan

Euractiv.com - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 13:42
Denmark’s health minister Sophie Løhde calls it an 'important step' for improving patients' access to medicines
Categories: Afrique, European Union

Former EEAS chief Mogherini, top Commission official arrested in fraud probe

Euractiv.com - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 13:41
Mogherini, and senior EU official Stefano Sannino are among the arrests
Categories: Afrique, European Union

Danish presidency proposes moving farm policy provisions to empower agricultural lawmakers

Euractiv.com - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 13:40
The apparently procedural initiative will grant more power to farm ministers and MEPs to shape the new CAP
Categories: Afrique, European Union

Bulgaria risks €25bn hit from chronic healthcare underfunding, warns report

Euractiv.com - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 13:24
Unsustainably low health insurance contributions could trigger hospital closures, workforce shortages and soaring out-of-pocket costs
Categories: Afrique, European Union

Voici les 10 pays africains qui ont connu le plus de coups d'État réussis

BBC Afrique - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 13:19
La période 2020–2023 a marqué un retour spectaculaire des putschs en Afrique. Contrairement aux décennies 1960–1980, les nouveaux putschistes s'appuient sur une popularité sociale, notamment au Sahel, où les armées prétendent répondre à l'insécurité et à la corruption.

Voici les 10 pays africains qui ont connu le plus de coups d'État réussis

BBC Afrique - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 13:19
La période 2020–2023 a marqué un retour spectaculaire des putschs en Afrique. Contrairement aux décennies 1960–1980, les nouveaux putschistes s'appuient sur une popularité sociale, notamment au Sahel, où les armées prétendent répondre à l'insécurité et à la corruption.

Belgium joins FAST-EU pilot accelerating multinational clinical trials

Euractiv.com - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 13:03
Belgium is reducing mononational clinical trial approval timelines by 27 days per application
Categories: Afrique, European Union

Video einer Ausschusssitzung - Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2025 - 09:30 - Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten - Sonderausschuss für den Europäischen Schutzschild für die Demokratie

Dauer des Videos : 120'

Haftungsausschluss : Die Verdolmetschung der Debatten soll die Kommunikation erleichtern, sie stellt jedoch keine authentische Aufzeichnung der Debatten dar. Authentisch sind nur die Originalfassungen der Reden bzw. ihre überprüften schriftlichen Übersetzungen.
Quelle : © Europäische Union, 2025 - EP

Pro-EU groups push back far right with alternative biotech report

Euractiv.com - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 12:41
The EPP, S&D and Renew groups have been working since June to draft an alternative report
Categories: Afrique, European Union

A francia-német együttműködés titkai (Kiszelly Zoltán a Franciapolitikában)

ESZTER - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 12:41

A francia-német együttműködés közhelyszerűen az európai integráció motorja. Ugyanakkor időről időre tudunk olyan periódusokról, amikor személyes okokból, vagy valamilyen érdekellentét ----> tovább olvasok!

The post A francia-német együttműködés titkai (Kiszelly Zoltán a Franciapolitikában) appeared first on FRANCIA POLITIKA.

Categories: European Union

South African radio presenter among five charged over Russia recruitment plot

BBC Africa - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 12:33
The group has been charged under a law which prohibits people from joining foreign armies.
Categories: Africa, Swiss News

Media Partnership: Total Tax Contribution Report Launch and Tax & Circular Economy Symposium

Euractiv.com - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 12:30
Policy makers need to ensure that the tax system remains well aligned with societal and economic developments. Megatrends, such as the changing demography, the introduction of circular business models, the uptake of generative AI and declining multilateralism may all have an impact on the tax system and the tax mix. The European Business Tax Forum […]
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

Európai pártpolitikai átrendeződés: hogy néz ez ki a jobboldalról nézve? (Deák Dániel a Franciapolitikában)

ESZTER - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 12:29

Ahogy az amerikai, az európai (benne a francia és a német) pártrendszer is mozog. Miközben létezik a hagyományos bal-jobb konfliktus ----> tovább olvasok!

The post Európai pártpolitikai átrendeződés: hogy néz ez ki a jobboldalról nézve? (Deák Dániel a Franciapolitikában) appeared first on FRANCIA POLITIKA.

Categories: European Union

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