Draft aide memoire: RCM Africa Retreat on Joint Programming

Abstract

The year 2017 marked the transition to a successor framework for a renewed United Nations partnership on Africa’s integration and development agenda. The adoption of the agenda has taken place as the African Union implements the First Ten Year Implementation Plan 2014-2023 of Agenda 2063, the continent’s long-term term socioeconomic and integrative transformation framework. The Plan serves as the guiding framework in the preparation of the medium term plan of the African Union Commission and to which the Regional Coordinating Mechanism for Africa also seeks to align its activities. The main objective of the programming retreats the first one to be held by the Regional Coordinating Mechanism for Africa is to provide a platform for stakeholders to identify the strategic priority areas of the African Union Commission and formulate an effective action plan and program of work that has shared responsibilities and resource windows, and includes a time frame for implementing it. The retreat will certainly help the Regional Coordinating Mechanism for Africa deal with the major concerns of the region by securing an agreement on joint planning and programming modalities. It will enhance the mechanism’s ability to capitalize on synergies and exploit comparative advantages.