Framework for a renewed United Nations and African Union Partnership on Africa’s integration and development agenda, joint United Nations-African Union Framework for enhanced partnership in peace and security and the African Union-United Nations framework for the implementation of agenda 2063 and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development in the context of the work of regional coordination mechanism for Africa

Abstract

The nineteenth session of RCM- Africa held in May 2018 recommended that the mechanism should align its work with the Joint United Nations-African Union framework for enhanced partnership in peace and security and the African Union-United Nations framework for the implementation of agenda 2063 and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. The implementation of the recommendation necessitates an examination of the two frameworks, as well as the framework for a renewed United Nations and African Union partnership on Africa’s integration and development agenda (PAIDA) 2017-2027, which currently guides the work of the mechanism, with a view to determining how the alignment could be achieved. PAIDA, which is the main AU-UN cooperation framework guiding the work of RCM-Africa is silent on the 2030 agenda, the work of the mechanism embraces both the 2030 agenda and agenda 2063, and recognizes the need for their integrated implementation. This could be attributed to emphasis placed on the importance of a coherent and coordinated implementation of the two agendas by the UNGA resolution 71/254 of 23 December 2018 that endorsed PAIDA.