The Access and Delivery Partnership (ADP) helps countries strengthen policies, human capacities, systems and regulations to ensure that effective medicines, vaccines and diagnostics reach the people who need them.

ADP is a collaboration between UNDP, WHO, TDR, and
PATH and is funded by the Government of Japan. Within
the partnership, TDR is working with ADP focus countries
to strengthen institutional capacity in the areas of priority setting, implementation research and drug safety monitoring. The ADP focus countries are Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Senegal, the United Republic of Tanzania and Thailand.

In 2019, TDR facilitated development of implementation research capacity for an integrated rollout plan for the new RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine across Ghana nationally.
The plan, coordinated by the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in Ghana, was in response to an EDCTP
call in 2018 on capacity development to facilitate delivery and uptake of new or improved medical interventions in African health systems. The plan involved a multisectoral working group which comprised UHAS, the Ministry of Health, Ghana National Drugs Programme and the Ghana Food and Drugs Authority (FDA). A €2.3 million grant was awarded to UHAS by EDCTP
in November 2019 to fund activities in 2020.

TDR also supported Ghana to strengthen the ability to identify and address barriers to effective programme implementation in support of the roll-out of community-based mass drug administration (MDA) of preventive chemotherapy for yaws (azithromycin).

In Francophone Africa, in partnership with the West African Health Research Network, a five-day training workshop was
held on implementation research methodology for malaria control stakeholders from eight countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo. The training was based on the French version of the TDR IR Toolkit.

The ADP Platform for South–South Exchange and Learning was also launched in January 2019 to leverage the experience and lessons learned from ADP focus countries, with the aim of identifying transferable lessons and tools to promote technical learning and exchange and strengthening regional partnerships and networks that sustain national level capacity development.

A more comprehensive IR Toolkit (in English and French)
was published, using an online modular learning approach. Since its launch in 2018, there have been over 5000 unique user sessions and almost 6000 download requests.