Report of the seventeenth session: first joint meeting of the Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa and the United Nations Development Group

Abstract

RCM-Africa had become an important vehicle for cooperation and the coordination of United Nations activities at the regional level in support of the African Union. the partnership between the African Union and the United Nations in the preparation of the common African position on the post-2015 development agenda, which had been Africa’s contribution to the formulation of the Sustainable Development Goals. The agenda for the session was Adoption of the agenda and program of work ; Plenary session 1: African Union-United Nations partnership for the implementation of Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals ; Plenary session 2: African Union’s theme for 2016, “African year of human rights with a particular focus on the rights of women” ; Plenary session 3: Regional integration, infrastructure and trade in the implementation of Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals ; Plenary session 4: Free movement, migration, youth and gender empowerment in the implementation of Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals .