Framework for a Renewed United Nations-African Union Partnership on Africa's Integration and Development Agenda 2017-2027

A/RES/71/254View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 126aCooperation between the United Nations and the African Union, published in 2016.

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1 entity

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What subjects does this mandate have?

5 topics

Africa Cooperation Between Organizations Partnership Regional Cooperation Sustainable Development

What does this mandate say?

10 operative paragraphs

Takes note of decision Assembly/AU/Dec.587 (XXV) of 15 June 2015 of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, in which they requested that the United Nations take the necessary measures to further enhance its cooperation with the African Union, especially in the context of the implementation of the transformative Agenda 2063, as well as of the Framework for a Renewed United Nations-African Union Partnership on Africa’s Integration and Development Agenda 2017–2027 as the overall platform for United Nations-African Union cooperation, and also takes note of the request of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union that the General Assembly of the United Nations adopt a resolution in support of the Framework;

Commends all the stakeholders in the partnership, namely, United Nations and African Union entities, for the significant efforts deployed in the implementation of the 10-year capacity-building programme for the African Union;

Welcomes the United Nations-African Union joint decision during the fifteenth session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa, held in Abuja in March 2014, to formulate a successor programme to the 2006 United Nations-African Union 10-year capacity-building programme as an important contribution towards conflict prevention and conflict resolution on the African continent that will also reflect the support of the United Nations to Agenda 2063, and reiterates the importance of greater engagement with the regional economic communities in formulating the successor programme;

Also welcomes the Framework for a Renewed United Nations-African Union Partnership on Africa’s Integration and Development Agenda 2017–2027, adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union at its twenty-fifth ordinary session, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in June 2015, as the successor programme to the 2006 United Nations-African Union 10-year capacity-building programme that is anchored in Agenda 2063;

Reaffirms the importance of supporting the African Union Agenda 2063 and its first 10-year implementation plan (2014–2023);

Calls upon relevant entities of the United Nations system, through the Regional Coordination Mechanism, to align their programmes and activities with the priorities enshrined in the Framework, as appropriate;

Calls upon the secretariat of the Regional Coordination Mechanism to monitor and coordinate the implementation of the Framework as the successor programme to the 10-year capacity-building programme for the African Union;

Calls upon the Secretary-General to provide, as appropriate, predictable support for full, effective and efficient implementation of the Framework;

Calls upon Africa’s bilateral and multilateral partners and the international community at large to lend their full support to the implementation of the Framework in concrete and enabling ways;

Calls upon the Secretary-General and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, working in collaboration, to monitor the progress made in the implementation of the Framework, and requests the Secretary-General to report on a biennial basis to the General Assembly on the implementation of the Framework within the context of his report on cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union.

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