Draft aide-memoire: eighteenth session regional coordination mechanism for Africa

Abstract

The annual RCM-Africa sessions review the progress made in improving cooperation, collaboration and coordination between the United Nations and the African Union and its organs, with the aim of enhancing the effectiveness of United Nations support to Africa’s development. The sessions also serve as a forum for deliberations on topical and emerging issues of importance to Africa’s development agenda, and for making sound policy prescriptions. In a bid to support the development agenda of the African Union and in alignment with the theme of the African Union for 2017, the United Nations system organizations working in Africa have chosen as the theme for the eighteenth session of RCMAfrica: “United Nations system support for harnessing the demographic dividend through investments in youth”.