Guidelines for mainstreaming cross-cutting issues into the activities of the RCM-Africa clusters and subclusters

Abstract

The Regional Coordinating Mechanism for Africa (RCM-Africa) was established to improve coherence and coordination among the United Nations system organizations, at regional and sub regional levels, so as to achieve its strategic objective of “Delivering as one” in support of the African Union and its New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). At its consecutive annual meetings, RCM-Africa identified a number of cross-cutting issues as a way of improving inter-cluster coordination. The mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues into the activities of clusters and sub clusters has featured as a key theme over the last six RCM-Africa meetings. All these meetings underlined: That gender and human rights issues should be systematically mainstreamed into the activities of clusters and sub clusters; regional integration should be adequately addressed by all clusters and sub clusters.