Consolidated progress report for the period April 2016 – March 2017

Abstract

The present report captures the work of RCM-Africa over the period April 2016- March 2017. As in past reports, the key achievements of RCM-Africa, the main challenges that it faced and the lessons learned will be considered. RCM-Africa has been playing a major role in strengthening the partnership between the United Nations and the African Union. RCM-Africa can look back over the year from April 2016 to March 2017 with a sense of satisfaction in terms of deepening consultations and refocusing on ways of strengthening the partnership and scaling up United Nations support to the African Union and its organs. Substantive issues addressed during this period related to strengthening the United Nations-African Union partnership, strengthening the United Nations internal coordination for a stronger mechanism, and improving coordination, collaboration and coherence of United Nations support to thematic programs and priorities of the African Union.